People in my opinion this game was huge let down.But i will talk about it all no just what I like and dislike

User Rating: 6.5 | Vanquish X360
By UroborosPRIME | Review Date:
I purchased this game approximately a week ago. I have completed it once. The plot is somewhat interesting. The characters are very cliched, uninteresting and with equally poor voice acting. Sadly, in a game that relies solely on its single player experience, these flaws become increasingly obnoxious as the game wears on. The idea behind the game seems to be the result of someone blending HALO and Metal Gear together. The single player campaign, however, lacks the depth and development of either franchise. Nor will you find yourself identifying and rooting for your character, sicne there is basically no character development to speak of.

I found the game to be repetitive and tiresome. You will see the exact same enemies in predictable combination and circumstance. There is no employment of tactics to speak of, save the use of cover. It is traditional platformer style gaming adapted to a 3rd person shooter: lots of the enemies, lots of bullets in the air, dodge around like a mongoose on meth and shoot back with a variety of guns...you played this game on your NES without realizing it, even if the graphics were not as good.

As far as the gameplay goes, the lack of multiplayer is understandable. The gameplay is simple not polished enough to convert into a smooth and enjoyable MP experience. Lack of control configuability is a bummer: the correct answer is custom button/control mapping. Given that this is very much a twitch shooter, precise and reflexive control is important and I never felt like the controls were intuitive or smooth. The learning curve is fairly steep considering that the tutorial is less useful than just spending the time reading through the manual.

The sound effects are good for the most part and the graphics are nice as well. Just turn down the volume for the voices and music as much as possible and enjoy the sounds of destruction.

The only reason I rate this game as high as 6.5 is out of acknowledgement that it is well produced, it looks really nice, there are some novel concepts in the game and to allow for the fact that perhaps I am just not the target audience for this game. Otherwise it scores a 5.

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