Great game with unique ideas, but don't expect a long ride.

User Rating: 8.5 | Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy X360
By dynasty3patriot | Review Date:
The Bourne Conspiracy is a cool action game. Fans of the books, movies, and action in general will enjoy this game. It excells on many levels but it gets held back with some naging issuses. First off, the gameplay is split into two different ways. Fighting is a very unique system. You have to attcks, quick and heavy. The game wants you to string these attacks into combos, but most of the time, you will be mashing the buttons to take enemies down. After a few landed punches a meter called the adreniline meter will fill up. When it fills up you can perform a takedown. These are very cool cinamatic sequences where you literaly takedown your opponent. The second half of the gameplay is shooting. The shooting aspect of the game dose not come through as well as fighting. You have your basic weapons, pistols,shotguns,and rifles. For the most part these weapons work well. Shooting also has takedowns, but they are not as fun as fighting takedowns. Overall, the gameplay is really fun and satisfying.

The single player campain mode is the central mode of the game. The strory itself is very compeling with good cut scenes and really nice voice acting. You will want to play through the missions to see what happens in the story. The missions in the story mode are simple like clearing out enemies and boss battles. There is also a car chase sequence that works sort of well. The campain mode is very short however. It will only take you about 5 hous to complete. Even though the campin is compeling and satisfying, you be left wanting more.

Graphics in this game are very good. They are really nice to look at. Its not the best looking 360 title on the market but its still polished well.Physiscs are good. Enemies will die like they should and the enviorntment also is done well. But the game does have enemy player modles that look exactly alike. The graphics could have been better, but they are still really nice.

Now, this game isnt perfect. The game does have some flaws. Sometimes when you are shooting an enemy it will take a few shots to take him down. This shouldnt have to happen especially when you have a shot gun and it takes 4 shells to kill a guy. Also during gameplay sometimes, you will have one of the buttons pop up on screen and you will have to tap them. These will come out of nowhere and sometimes it costs you a mission. The camera will also sometimes get in the way when you are fighting. Borne has some flaws, but they dont bring down the entire game.

To sum it up, Bourne Conspiracy is a good game. New and unique fighting sytems have been introduced into this game. Shooting isnt that bad either, and overall it is a nice looking game. I would not recommend buying this game. The campain is just to short to justify a full price purchace. This a great game for the weekend. If you are looking for a good action game, The Bourne Conspiracy is a great choice.



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