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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
a fine game for £20 or less new, 13 Nov 2003
this is one of those games were you feel compelled to buy it because you saw a small trailer somewhere and it looked interesting, then saw the write ups and thought you'd avoid it, then seeing it for £20 you think, what the heck it cant be awful can it? the answer is far from it, this game rocks!first of it uses the harddisk of the xbox in nice ways, (better than that muppet blinx) and the graphics are stunning. but you must be wondering, why buy it? that simple, it takes your average 3rd person fighting/adventure game (streets of rage mixing rpg elements) and radically improves it, for starters the character you embody can change into 3 forms, first is your average humanoid with a nice sword that allows a huge array of melee attacks and combos. then theres gun mode, you morph into a larger slower but much stronger form that has a huge gun which shoots your usual array of attacks, homing rockets, bullets grenades and the like, to maximize range from target, damage given and minimize damage taken. then theres the stealth form, you morph into what can only be described as a four legged creature version of the main form, this has its advantages, such as invisibility, long range grabbing, jumping and crawling on walls/ceilings! its all very cool to look at and the only downers would be the sound which is a bit to techno noisy for me, and the learning curve, which starts of fair then deteriorates to impossible when you loose control over the 2 extra forms and the enemies begin to block/anticipate your combos!! while this is clever, it severely lowers the replay value. but its got truly stunning visuals, the features are well thought out and its easy to learn the controls. the best thing which i nearly forgot to mention was the time dialation system. later in the game you learn to target enemies and freeze them in time while you build up a combo. its like a souped up version of snake from a mobile, you have to move the light towards the pictures of the enemies at the right time, stretch it out longer for truly awesome finishers. this alone makes it worth while cos its just so damn cool! for £20 you cant go wrong!
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