Tuesday 10 August 2010

The "Complete" List

Left 4 Dead 2 - (All Campaigns)
Mass Effect
Lego Rock Band - Story Mode
Darksiders - Easy
BAYONETTA - Easy Automatic
Lego Batman
Call of Duty: Classic - Normal
Fracture - Casual
Dragon Quest: The Hand of the Heavenly Bride
Heavy Rain - Medium
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - Normal
Yakuza 3 - Easy
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All
Professor Layton and Pandora's Box
Mass Effect 2 - Normal
Peggle: Dual Shot - DS
Splinter Cell: Conviction - Realistic & Co-op - Realistic
Dead Space - Easy - 360
Alan Wake - Normal
Split/Second - Career
Blur - Career/Level 50 Multiplayer
Red Dead Redemption
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle - Sweet
Everybody's Golf 2 - PSP
The Saboteur - 360
Dark Void - 360

Another one of those titles that showed intial promise that didn't review well enough for a full price purchase that I've picked up cheap to fill the summer void. £10 brand new in game.

Presumably no developer sets out to make an average game. One assumes it comes down to budget or time constraints or possibly both. Not everyone has Polyphony Digitals unlimited time and seemingly budget to reach for perfection.

Here things start off really well. There's a definite whiff of Uncharted, Not just because Nolan North voices our hero but also the jungle based opening levels and the cover based gunplay. There's also a similar 50s adventure serial feel to it. Especially when the rocket pack gets introduced a couple of levels in.

There's a mission soon after where your flying through the sky, landing on giant structures, fighting through them to destroy them from the inside out and then flying away on a wing and prayer and you think this could be a really great game.

However the aforementioned time and budjet constraints conspire to spoil it. The rest of the areas are fairly small and so you end up flying through very small areas fighting the same ships over and over again. Then before you know it the games pretty much over.

Fun while it lasts, looks nice enough, lots of potential but, much like my school reports, should of tried harder.

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