I think Bayonetta is the best action game thus far, exceeded only by the story and characters of the God of War series and now Castlevania. but the gameplay in Bayo was phenominal.
but Vanquish was not a great game imo. the shooting was way to monotonous and repititive. in Bayonetta you have different types of encounters with enemies, and you determine how you engage the enemy. with great boss battles scattered in between.
Vanquish just featured the same robot encounters again and again, theres only one way to detemine encounters and thats by shooting and hiding. the whole boost and slow motion thing was nice, but there was no real varitey to the way you would use them.
i think a better example of semi 3rd person shooters are Dead Space 1 and 2, which i felt were much better than Vanquish in the diversity of gameplay. the story in Vanquish wasnt that great either tbh. so i think the game was lacking in several key departments, and worst of all it had no multiplayer, i dont give a toss about multiplayer, but a shooter releasing in October with no multiplayer isnt going to sell well, regardless of metacritic.
