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Review by: ZDST
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Reviewers Score:
5 / 10
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Posted: May 27, 2007 |
Yes! The Wii exclusive First person
shooter has been out for a while, but....is it any good....?
Well....
PLOT! 5/10
Now I usually don't bother giving first person shooter games a second
thought when it comes down to plot (Although they DO help) but I feel it
is necessary to rate it.
Basically, you and your Fiancee are going out to dinner, she just so
happens to be the daughter of a great Yakuza leader,and you happen to be
her bodyguard. of course, some douche had to come and ruin it by popping
holes into everyone via Uzi. Naturally, the girl gets kidnapped, and daddy
gets hurt. What else is the hero gonna do? Pop everyone full of holes to
try and get his girlfriend back.
Now why a 5? Well first of all, that plot is pretty boring if you ask me,
and second, its like Ubisoft made EVERY effort possible to make the
characters as boring as possible.
No character has any real personality, or any reason to like them, hell
the girlfriend that you're supposed to save has the personality of a
cardboard box.
GRAPHICS 7/10
Now the graphics arent bad.....for last gen! (Buuuurrrrrned!) Everything
is in order, My only gripes are the fact that this looks like a gamecube
game, and the cutscenes are laughable at best...Lets just say....
THEY'RE DONE IN FLASH!? Yes....every cutscene looks like it was done in
Macromedia flash....no joke....
Besides that, the ingame graphics are nice but nothing really special.
SOUND 7/10
While most of the sound effects are pretty good, lets just say the
voiceovers and music are AWFUL.
The voice overs have the worst americans trying to sound like japanese
people trying to talk american. (The girl in the dojo comes to mind every
time I think about it.) And whatever doesn't sound bad, just sounds
boring.
The music isn't really bad, but again, nothing special, you have random
guitar riffs and when a sword fight comes you hear a series of drums.
Everynow and then, you hear some singing in japanese, not really much to
put an effort in listening to.
GAMEPLAY 8/10
I leave the best for last!
Now, shooting and so forth are pretty good, you move with the anlog stick
on the nunchuck, and point with the Wii mote.
Turning, however slow it may be, works very well, if you turn the pointer
to the side of the screen to turn, its works a lot like standard FPS.
Although you can now shoot 'gansta style' (Tilted sideways) but thats
pretty pointless....
Grenades can be thrown either overhead, or underhand, which is VERY useful
at some points.
Now the sword fights....are just annoying....
You can only swing in 8 directions, and you can't stab. There is also a
heavy lag where it takes a while for it to register the move....not that
it matters much, it all might as well been one button to attack.
Most battles involve Blocking, dodging, and hitting, no real tactic, no
dramatic sword duels....
Overall 5/10
Now 5/10 isn't bad, its just not very good, many things in this game could
have been fixed if they put more effort into it,but it feels very lacking
and very average.
Its not a bad game to try out your shamncy new Wii with, but don't expect
a Halo killer or anything.... |
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