All right but greatly lacks in ambiance

User Rating: 6.5 | Champions: Return to Arms PS2
It looks good, it has seven classes of which five are male and female and all of which the looks can be modified (even though some haircuts look like they were designed for the red lights district... LOLITA!).
The skill trees are very neat, though un-orderly. Sometimes, a skill that can be learned on say, level 5 is nearly at the top of the skill tree, while another skill that can be learned on the same level is found halfway or three quarters down the skill tree.
The game has a lot of quests which is good, though most quests take you an hour and a half through areas that are identical, or sometimes even just one area all the time, which is bad.
The travelling is absolutely boring, since you won't have to travel through forests and mountains but just get teleported right where you need to be. The many different skins and looks of the weapons and armour abound greatly which makes the game real fun.
The distant fighting like spell casting and arching sucks big time since the auto-aim is absolutely lame. The spells look incredibly good though, for a Real Time Action game, and the bow actually has an advantage here! :O Ranged weapons and some spells are very often almost the only way to hit foes that are on ledges or behind barricades.
The switching between weapons is a good feat, though the character sometimes seems to have forgotten where he put his darned six feet long, a hundred pounds-weighing, thunderbolt-shooting claymore.
You can perform backsteps, which are of no meaning at all except for when you are being attacked from the sides, which occasionally happens when hell freezes over.
The bonus levels (especially the first one) are long and boring, though some are actually quite funny (the pac man with the frogs). The rewards are kind of nice too.
The interaction between characters is kind of, how do you say that... ... ...
Wait... Did I say interaction? Sorry, there is none.
You cannot, in any way, strictly forbidden and absolutely out of the question share money and/or experience. The one who gets it the first is the one who goes swimming with little hairy women.
The story plot is dead, if there ever was one, and the only evil thing with a reason to be is some cheap goth emo woman Natasha. With a bosom like that, in a... cloth like that, who wouldn't be? She must have an aching back like hell. Everyone would be mean and rotten to the bone.
Last, and absolutely least, is the ambiance. The music, that hardly plays at all anyways, is soooo lame. The sounds of walking remind of a cow with diarrhea and the slashing of swords sound as frightening as a whooping spatula. The one cool sound, and it is the only cool sound in the entire game, is that of flying arrows *tshjew tshjew*... Also helping to drag down the ambiance is the variety of enemies in one level, or the lack thereof, meaning you have to fight armies and armies of the same creatures which you mostly hack down with one hit. Furthermore are the landscapes quite depressing. Or at least they become depressing after an hour and a half.
So, altogether it has nice detailed graphics, medium game-play and a terrible, horribly bad story plot and ambiance. Fun for two to four, slow painful death for one. Worth your time when you're bored.