Vivendi have all these special features saying how great the art work is, shame about the graphics
Well look no further my friend this is the game that has all the fantasy dragon riding orc shooting action your brain could handle. The story goes that Eragon is a farm boy in a world called Alagaesia, then one day while out hunting for some food he goes to shoot at a dear then a big blue egg lands next to him as if it fell from the sky. At first he thinks it’s a big shiny stone so he tries selling it on but then a dragon hatches out of it and he is then bonded to this dragon and is to become a legendary dragon rider. Eragon has a great story it is a shame about the graphics and the game play, the characters don’t look as real as they do in the movie, or at least half as good as the other characters in other X-Box 360 titles, they could have done a lot better with the characters and the cut scenes are even worse using 2D backgrounds with 3D characters not the best choice, especially when the art work in the background isn’t that great. The Game play is repetitive it’s good to go for about 4 to 5 hours then you start to realise just how repetitive it is stabbing the next wave of enemies then the next wave then the next wave using the same techniques, but after a while they start to introduce the spears that you can chuck with your magic and boulders you can drop on enemies and magic arrows and power ups for your sword, the game gets a little less repetitive. But the sword play gets even more repetitive as the game goes on with bigger and badder enemies requiring more stabs and bow shoot to hit the ground. As you start to play through you notice the short levels and repetitive game play and hope that the dragon levels will start to come soon and when you do eventually get to play them you realise the dragon abilities and levels are limited, having only fire breath tail whip, guard and speed boosts and all the dragon levels are roughly the same but with more enemies to breath fire at, they could have gone places with this and made it a whole lot better. The level design layout, Vivendi PLEASE sack the man/woman that designed them there are way to many ledges they you have to jump to and shimmy across and most of them are blended in with the scenery, while I was playing I accidentally jumped to the right ledge 9 times out of 10, the key to this games is when lost JUMP.
Although there is disappointing graphics game play and level design the multiplayer campaign is lots of fun and makes the actual game a lot easier because you can both slash at the same man and takes away a lot of the repetitiveness. The Good Stuff Cool fire effects Nice magic moves Real Movie voices
The Bad Stuff Extremely repetitive Cut scenes are lacking Badly animated Characters Short levels Bad camera angles