Kameo is short but sweet with graphics and gameplay that set it appart and make it stand out from the crowd.
Kameo
Kameo is an action adventure game and is the first ever game released for the Xbox 360. At first the game may not strike you as being all that great as it throws you in at the deep end without teaching you all of the game mechanics and such but you will soon figure it out. The plot of the game is that you are Kameo and are on a Quest to rescue your family from this typical fairytale bad guy beast thing that lives in a Dungeon. On your way you will meet lots of interesting characters and places which add to the game universe and create a superb environment for you to explore. The game has actually been in production since near the release of the original Xbox and was originally intended to be released for the Xbox but it kept getting delayed over time.
The games graphics are really great quality and look amazing at times. With lots of great colour usage and interesting characters and wired and wacky places to visit and things to see it definitely has its own individual look which really sets it apart from other Action Adventure games. The game also features a few Cut Scenes which are not in game but still look amazing and add depth to the story and overall look and feel of the game. The sound is also one of the games strong points and features some really strange wired and funny sounds whenever you do a certain action in the game and each individual enemy has its own sounds. It also features great music and ambience in the background with run all the time.
The game has a few unique gameplay elements such as character morphing where you transform into weird and wonderful fairytale creatures that look like they came out of a dream or something which is really great. The game features many of these creatures to transform into and throws you them at you very rapidly and gives something exiting to look forward to whilst playing the game. But it does feel like the game does unfortunately throw these creatures at you all to suddenly and quickly and maybe you could have gone longer without receiving yet another creature. The creatures however are not just different versions of Kameo which are relatively the same but look different as this is not the case. Each creature moves differently than the other and has trademarks that really set it apart from each other such as some spit fire others hurl balls with spikes at their opponents or some are big gorilla like creatures. You can also mount a Horse and ride it which is really only used in the epic badlands scenes throughout the game which features some of the best battles I have seen in a long time where you travel past them out of harms way down the road to safety. The game does however only feature a few of these events but they really help break the action apart a little and give the gameplay some variation which is what I think the developer (Rare) intended them to work.
The game does however not feature an Xbox live feature and sticks to single player. However it does feature a co-op mode which can be a blast and offer some mild thrills you can see right from the start it was not intended for co-op and the level design was intended for one person only. Although the game may strike you as a kids game that is not the case , its for all ages and everyone can have fun with it regardless of how old they are. Over all the game is short, only around 10 hours of so but that 10 hours is still really impressive and groundbreaking and it really stands out from the crowd. Worth playing even if only for a little while.