Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #814 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Capcom
• Released on: 2007-01-12
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Platform: Xbox 360

Amazon.co.uk Review
With the Xbox 360 still selling like two week old sushi in Japan, Capcom remains Microsoft’s biggest supporter from the land of the rising uppercut. Realising there’s no point trying to appeal to the local market their games so far have all been very much Western in style, as exemplified by the well-received Dead Rising. This was intended as a third person take on Halo and even though the similarities are ultimately minor it’s still one of the 360’s best action games. Like most Capcom games the story (and particularly dialogue and voiceovers) is not one of the game’s best features, but thankfully there’s not much that needs explaining when you’re fighting monster bugs and giant robot riding snow pirates.

Like Halo you can have only two weapons at a time and use a recharging shield. This though is powered by an always decreasing supply of thermal energy, topped up from defeated enemies. Apart from this the only other piece of gadgetry you have to help you is a grappling hook, although it remains largely underused in the single player campaign. The various mechs you can commandeer are a great deal of fun though, with different variants being able to jump, hover or transform into vehicles. Graphically the game is excellent, with some awesomely large Starship Troopers style bugs and possibly the best explosions ever in gaming.

Where the game gets into trouble is the brevity of the single player campaign. Although this is compensated by the online multiplayer mode, even that cannot overcome the game’s innate simplicity. Complexity, or even longevity, is not what this game is about though and in terms of offering plenty of big dumb fun it succeeds admirably.
HARRISON DENT

360 Magazine
Good looking doesn't even begin to describe what is happening on the screen. It is spectacular.

Edge
A game of strong, simple virtues: knockout action, beautiful character design, lovingly articulated models, crisp sound and overall polish.

Customer Reviews

Great Game
This game lost planet has a range of weapons and a range of brilliant challenges, the on-line games are brilliant fun and the campaign is just brilliant, if you don't play this game you are missing out on the fun. Sure it may be an old game but that just means that there are loads more downloadable content for it then, the live is great but as its an old game you bump into the same players quite allot, overall 5 stars is what is needed.

So Much Potential....but ..so Average
Okay I bought this game hoping for something different with stunning graphics and great surroundings and good gameplay however, it has to be said - this had none of them. Right fronm the start the game is boring and ordinarily average. The 3rd person view is so far away it makes shotting 10 times harder than it should be.
I really wanted to enjoy this game but I didn't.
Not reccomended.

Mutton dressed as lamb ...
I ordered this game expecting something epic. What I got was something ... not. Don't get me wrong, it looks (as countless others have stated) quite simply breathtaking, but I'm afraid in this case it's just mutton dressed as lamb.

So what's wrong with it? Well, for one thing there's no save option, and the game only auto-saves at the end of each mission. I read a review where someone said that it could take up to 2 hours to complete missions, and at the time thought it couldn't POSSIBLY take that long. How wrong I was. Some even took longer. That's all right if you're a hard-core gamer, but for the short-session gamer its a bit too much to suffer.

The other major let-down was the scripting for the cutscenes. Although the plot itself isn't bad, the cutscenes were almost painful to watch, with consistently twee, puerile and in places unbelievably cheesy ('I WILL kill Isenberg!!') dialogue. It wasn't the content that was wrong - it was the tone.

I personally also loathed the constantly re-spawning baddies, forcing you into a 'duck and dive' style of gameplay. When I shoot the bad guys, I like 'em dead. Period.

If I'd played a demo I wouldn't have bothered with the game. I even considered not bothering to finish it, but as my obsessive nature wouldn't permit that, I played on expecting there would at least be a satisfying ending. Wrong again. Gameplay stops, there's a pathetic attempt at a plot tie-up, then the credits roll.

All in all, unless you like games where you endlessly shoot things for no apparent reason, and are prepared to put in long sessions, I suggest you give this one a wide berth.