As I am waiting for the game to load on my surprisingly fast Xbox 360, the first thing I see is the Unreal Engine logo. For the first time in a while I almost giggle a little bit. Giggles of joy that is. I start the campaign on Agent difficulty (The normal one) and start playing. The first thought is that this game is amazingly well done and very pretty. The fighting is great and innovative and the story is just as deep as the movie's. So basically I'm playing with a huge smile on my face. Then I get farther and farther into the surprisingly short game, and the smile becomes a small frown. The controls are clunky, the games fights are repetitive, and the difficulty curve is weirder than most things in Japan. I say that loosely. The game its self is super easy, but the boss battles are really hard. I mean they really kicked my ass, and made this game challenging at times. Good thing they added the ability to replay Boss Battles, because they are the best part of this game.
Positive Notes
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Stays true to the Movie
Impressive Graphics
Great fighting system
Fun boss battles
Negative Notes
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Very short
Clunky and slow controls
Very easy, except the boss battles
Annoying level design
??? Notes
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Why the hell did they add the ability to sneak???
I wanted to quickly add a little thing about the shooting in the game. The shooting is bad and great. I say it is bad because its slow and hard to kill people with. I found it easier to go into hand-to-hand combat with people then to shoot them. Its great because it's also makes the game slightly more challenging, because this game needs that. Along with that it also makes the "immortal badass" a little harder to play.
I gave this a 80, but I don't think that it should have a score. If your a casual gamer or a intermediate gamer you should defiantly rent this game, but if your a Hardcore gamer or a Bourne fan, then you should buy this one.
TGC: There was a time when games based on movies were actually pretty good, and The Bourne Conspiracy stands out as one of the better attempts.
Solid movie licensed game indeed. Its unfortunately another High Moon Studios release (i.e. Transformers & Deadpool) with little hopes of a re-release or remaster happening anytime soon, due to expiring license.
As the world reels from the shockwaves of the seismic news that Microsoft is acquiring the proverbial swamp of the video-game landscape, Activision Blizzard King, it only seems natural that our minds should now shift towards what the fallout will be for presumably years if not decades to come.
Another Prototype would be awesome.
As for Singularity, I don't necessarily need a sequel, I just want to see Raven be able to flex their creative muscle again; not just be relegated to assisting with CoD. A lot of the old guard is still with the company.
That's part of what I'm hoping to see come from this acquisition. Revive teams like Vicarious Visions and Ravem to actually allow them to work on their own new projects again.
I'd like to see Activision get the Transformers license again and continue the War and Fall of Cybertron games. the movie games were crap and the game that combined both movie and Fall and War of Cybertron sucked a new Prototype would also be good as well.
Re-imagining of River Raid and the original adventurer Pitfall. Oh Zork is also a great game.
In Games We Feel That Only We Play, Gaming Respawn discuss video games that they feel no one else plays except them.
Castlevania Lecarde Chronicles 2
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Just because it's an independent fan-made game doesn't mean it's not the greatest Castlevania title in over a decade. This masterpiece truly deserves to be played, but goes unnoticed 😔
Definitely some overlooked gems there. Shadows of the Damned was one of my top five favorite games from the last generation. Highly recommended just for the humor!
Gurumin A Monsterous Adventure. To this day I love that game. Like a light hearted more platformer than combat version of Threads of Fate. I don't know a single soul outside me and my brother that knows the game. sad because it's one of my favourite PSP games I played even on Vita alot. Now I play the PC version a bit lol
I have Dante's Inferno, but I've never paid any of the others. Too few people have played Ico. Still one of my favorite games. As for a game that no one seems to have heard of but me... Undergarden is great. Hard to describe. Watch a vid and you'll see.