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twesterm on 08 March 2010
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It wasn't bad at all, but I finsihed it and I doubt I'll ever play it again.

I don't feel like writing a full review of it at the moment, but here's a quick list of some of the pros and cons:

Pros

  • INCREDIBLE graphics -- environments and characters are both awe inspiring
  • Scenes with crowds and crowds of people are great
  • Action scenes are brilliant
  • Did a good job of using QTE's
  • Good story that keeps you guessing until the end

Cons

  • Probably the worst movement controls of this decade
  • camera is incredibly annoying
  • trying to situate yourself because of the mixture of the above two things is just painful
  • plotholes, plotholes, plotholes
  • The accents are pretty bad with all of the childrens being terrible
  • By the end of the game doing the mundane things just felt kind of like a waste
  • short with little to no replay value.  There are multiple endings and you might replay the last few chapters to see some, but most people aren't going to play through this more than once.
  • When you're looking at the characters thoughts/decisions, it's so hard to see what you're trying to select.  The options move off screen, wildly shake, get too small, or behind the character and you just can't see what you want to press.
  • sometimes the environment or characters hide prompts making them really hard to see
  • I'm pretty sure this game would be unplayable on a standard TV.  I had problems enough seeing some things on my 42" HD TV, I couldn't imagine many of the situations on a 20" SDTV.

All in all, it was a good game.  If I had to give it a rating right now, I would say give it a low 8.  The game itself was good but the movement controls were just so bad, the camera was terrible, and because of that you just don't really want to play through it again.  It's just long enough you don't want to rent it but short enough with little replay value that $60 is too much.

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And before CGI tells me he has replayed the game 20 times, all I have to say is you're not the norm.  Most people will get a single playthrough out of this and little more than that.