I am not as harsh on this game as gamespot is. After all the game works pretty good.
I do not know how a game would get 4.2 that works as well as this game does. Sure it is not that great of a game but it WORKS! The combat actually works pretty well. Perhaps if the game did not fuction well and had a lot of bugs I could understand the 4.2
Graphics - The graphics are just slightly better than the xbox, which is sad. Sound - The sound is not bad, but nothing stood out as fantastic. the voice acting is done pretty well. Story - Huh, what story. Seriously there is not much of a story in this game. After beating it I am not sure what the story is reall. Physics - What physics? This game is way out dated. Value - Not really worth a rental unless you have nothing better to rent. If you have a deal where you can rent as many games as you want a month from hollywood or www.gameznflix.com it might be worth checking out. Gameplay - The gameplay is not all that bad. It is a beat em up at core. There is no puzzle sovling like the game claims. The flying levels are pretty lame, which means it is a good thing there are only a few of them. If this game had a cool boss fight for ever level it would be much better. Most of the enemies are pretty lame to fight. However a few of them are sort of fun. For instance there are these large guys, you have to shot them in the face with an arrow to blind them, and then you can beat them in the legs and they fall to their knees. Give them a few beatings on the head and hit the B button and you do a grab move and kick them in the head. You can also jump on their back and rid them but I found most of the time it was hard to do damage this way. Guys with shields force you to do a jump-B attack to breakd their shield or use your block magic. The magic system is sort of cool. You hold down the left trigger and aim in the direction of the enemy you wish to target. A hand will appear on them, then you hit one of the 4 regular bottons. Y pushes them backwards, A pulls them towards you, X makes a blue glow surround you knocking everyone away from you and often times it throws them on their back. Finally the B button shots fire magic at them, which sets them on fire. If you hold down the right trigger and then hit A you shoot arrows at enemies. You can block with X and if you block right when they attack it stuns them, and then you can hit B next to them and grab them and then throw them or beat them with your other hand. There are a few grappling moves. The camera sucks. There is no way to move the camera. You cannot even enter fps mode. The camera is static the whole game. For the most part it does a decent job. But there are times I could not tell where I was supposed to jump to, which was frustrating. If you have nothing better to do, and no more games in your que, try this I guess.