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HGFB wrote:So this is supposed to be a good fun game then?
Nobody listens to a thing I say.
James
Don't sad little dude. It's always good to get more than one person's opinion.
In this case I'm glad I read this thread or I'd have missed out on a fantastic little game. I love the way everything is destructable. Lots of buildings between you and the ants? One rocket launcher provides a straight line to your target. Giant ants on the overpass? Blow it up
Your squadmates never *ever* shut up either
It's like a cross between Dead Rising, It Came From the Desert and Crackdown
Wow. I've just done mission 9. The one where the walker robots come ashore in a massive assault. What a nice set of graphics. The sky seemed to be burning and the explosions when the walkers go down were massive.
This game does everything BIG doesn't it?
How do you board vehicles? There was an attack chopper on the beach but I couldn't figure out how to get into it.
There's a tank at the top of the rise, too. You hit the Back button, beside the left analog stick, to use vehicles. For the most part they're pretty useless, but you can make good (if limited) use of them with a bit of practice.
Too short and the reviews weren't uniformly positive.
My view- replay value through the roof thanks to all the difficulty levels, and more fun and sheer awesome in any given level than most games have from start to finish. I've got well over 1600HP (compared to the original 200 I started at) and the second-to-hardest difficulty still takes me apart with depressing ease. For those aiming for 100%, this is a looooong game.
chub wrote:If it's not a stupid question, why is the RRP so much lower than other 360 games? It doesn't look like a 'budget' title from the trailers.
Some comments in some reviews talk about occasional low frame rates, getting stuck on geometry that sort of thing - but they all agree that its a fun game.
Yeah. The frame rate can suffer sometimes but when you see how much stuff they dump on the screen sometimes you'll understand why It doesn't detract from the gameplay though.
I had a look at the official website, and it says on the weapons page that one of them is a flamethrower. Now that's something I could do with in Crackdown.
"In case of a nuclear attack, the protection of records is essential, if this country is to carry on its economy, and maintain our way of life."
Well, I was already sold from peoples comments here and the videos. Giant ants, giant robots, flamethrowers, etc - such things are to be encouraged in games.
I've read comments elsewhere from people saying it's repetitive. It's a shoot-em-up, what do you expect! I think some people are stuck with the idea that every game should contain a complex mission structure in order to be fun. Bah.
"In case of a nuclear attack, the protection of records is essential, if this country is to carry on its economy, and maintain our way of life."
chub wrote:If it's not a stupid question, why is the RRP so much lower than other 360 games? It doesn't look like a 'budget' title from the trailers.
I've noticed that a lot of Japanese games like Disgaea, Makai Kingdom or Samurai Warriors 2 : Empires are only released with an English/Swedish manual (don't know why there's a Swedish part...)
But I have a set of games which only have English/Swedish manuals which have never appeared in the shops here in Beglium (or only by accident, you find them in one chain of stores but not in another chain). And when they appear, they are also cheaper (40 euro instead of the usual 60). Could it be that they are only target the English market (and there don't bother with French/German/other translations?
I had to 'import' Disgaea and Makai Kingdom from the UK, and I told I mate in London to grab SW2 : Empires and EDF 2017 because it is nowhere to be found here in Belgium
Because I ahve the feeling that a lot of games don't even reach 'the continent' because of idea that the manuals need to be translated... never had those problems in the Speccy/Commodore days... Hell, I learned my English from computer games!
