Ubisoft released 3 great tittles for this coming Yuletide season - Prince of Persia Sands of Time, Beyond Good & Evil and XIII. Gamespot seems to favour POP giving it a 9.0 while only a 6.4 for XIII. Personally I have the oportunity to try all 3 games and given a choice I would rank BG&E before POP. The storyline behind BG&E is intrigueing as it involves a conspiracy by the government while POP is typical of a hero trying to set things right. BG&E keeps me to my chair as I tried to complete the game to know what's the plot. XIII like BG&E is also about a conspiracy assasination plot of the President. However, the ending is a big letdown "To be continued" as there are 10 more volumes of the comic yet to be included in the game. Graphically, BG&E is eye candy especially when you turn on the progressive scanning feature. I was playing the PS2 version on a Samsung LCD TV and genetically PS2 games don't look great on LCD monitors. When I turn on the progressive scan feature within the game, the graphics become more detailed and sharper and indeed it's very beautiful. Though I must say XIII celshaded technology is the most unique among the 3 games. POP would score somewhere in between the 2 extremes. I didn't pay too much attention to the audio but at certain cutscenes the background music is pretty nice and pleasant. POP of course features arabic music while I don't have an impression of XIII yet. As for gameplay, BG&E is what Tomb Raider AOD should have been. It features on puzzle and problem solving rather than action genre killing monsters (like Devil May Cry). THe puzzles are pretty interesting and it's not really repetive. I must say it's on par with POP as POP also has some pretty interesting puzzles. The combat in POP is much simpler and more stylish than that in BG&E. XIII is a FPS so it's a totally different genre altogether. In conclusion my tilt is towards BG&E. It's a pretty and interesting game but I have yet to find out whether it's suppose to be a short game. I am still stuck in the Slaughterhouse stage. For all of you who are hestitant about getting this game, my suggestion is try the demo and see if you like it. For one, it's a great game to me - just my two cents.
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