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by Maarten Goldstein, May 24, 2007 8:13am PDTIt's refreshing to see a publisher media day and not be flooded with movie tie-in and/or kids products. Sure, Ubisoft still milks their franchises like any other company, but at least they are original properties. Movie: Bitch isn't standing now.
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I picked up the game yesterday afternoon and have gotten to spend a little over 3 hours with the game so far.
Graphics:
I find the colors to be very vibrant and the 2d sprites to be lively,detailed, and interesting to look at. The backgrounds seem to go on for miles, are very detailed, and really give the world a sense of depth. The art style seems to be a mix of "big-eyed" anime, im sure everyone knows what im talking about, and, oddly the drawn portions of anything you would find in Monty Python.
Gameplay:
You begin each level in a sphere, a miniature earth if you will. You can run to either the left or the right and be back at your starting place in about 10-15 seconds on every level i have played so far. Some spheres have multiple exits which lead to other spheres. This allows you to take different routes to get at certain goods, or to skip others alltogether and get to the mini-boss and boss fights faster. Also, you level your character as well as your weapon. The weapon seems to get stronger and it also offers more spells as you progress.
The game is setup as a 2D sidescroller with you moving from left to right and engaging the enemy in combat. You use only one button to attack and change the direction of your control stick to attack upwards or to duck down and do a slide attack. You can jump or press the jump button twice and glide which allows you to attack enemies in the air or to do a slash at ground enemies. Also, the attack button serves as your block button.
You cannot attack indefinetly. You have a small green bar called the Pow bar that depletes, rapidly, as you attack enemies. To recharge you can simply stop attacking or guarding for a moment, or soak up energy called Phozons from the enemies you have killed to quickly return to the battle.
Adding to the combat element of the game is alchemy. Through the use of ingredients which you find off your enemies, seldomly, and everytime when you clear all the enemies out of a particular sphere. Alchemy allows you to take bottles and mix ingredients to create potions that you can throw to damage your enemies, increase your chance of finding items on enemies, and increase your offense or defensive stats.
Items/Inventory:
You have very limited space in your inventory so you have to be strategic in what you carry. However, the game design helps with that because many of the items interact with each other. For example, most of your food, which you need to eat to heal yourself, is grown from seeds. Most of the seeds use phozons to grow. You can either drop a seed or two after you defeat some enemies and let the seeds grow from there, or, use special seeds that release phozons to grow your plants. You can also purchase other bags to extend your inventory, so far i have two.
Story:
The story is somewhat interesting, but i smell the foul odor of cliche from a mile away. I wont spoil any details, and im only 3 hours in so its hard to say how it will eventually turn up. However, so far, ive found the artistry to be much more compelling than the tale itself.
Sound:
Its there, i really havent paid much attention to it.
Overall:
After three hours i am enjoying the game, however, im not yet sold on whether the game will hold my attention for the 40 hours of gameplay that it boasts. I dont feel that strong desire to play that some titles give me, but it is fun. Frankly, if you arent worried about the game being impossible to find, which is possible, or your budget is tight, you might want to rent it first to see if its your cup of tea.
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LOST
What do we all think? I need more discussion. In the future how is Jack's dad still alive? And Walt with no Michael? And Fucking Mikhal is what invincible? I bet he is still kicking after that damn nade! What about Naomi's people possibly pissed because Locke "Jack the Ripper'd" the back of her head?
OMG LOST!
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The father of that Cardinals player who died in the car crash is suing the stalled driver (in addition to anyone else he can think of).
His son:
A) had a BAC level twice the legal limit
B) had marijuana in the vehicle
C) was talking on his cell phone at the time of the crash
D) was speeding
E) and... was not wearing a seat belt
Yeah it sucks that his son died. HOWEVER: How can this guy possibly justify a lawsuit blaming the driver of the stalled car and the tow-truck driver for his son's death? If this guy wins ANYTHING, America has, once-and-for-all, spectacularly failed.
http://www.cnn.com/si/2007/baseball/mlb/05/24/hancock.lawsuit.ap/index.html?cnn=yes
Seriously, seriously, fucked up.
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BLEVEs, Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion, are the most bad ass esplosions this side of a nuke. Check out some of the shit these fuckers can cause.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLEVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWjxrAhpBQk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FdXTq9LXOY
Second one is extra awesome.
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315$ for 360 online vs 480$ for elite
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Oh wow. This game is GORGEOUS
Fun to play too, but *WHY* did they have to use an American voice over?
Rally games just aren't the same without a british co-driver...
I may have to pass up Forza 2 for DiRT.
Sincerely,
Nicky Grist
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How do you get your pizza onto the pizza stone in the oven? Maybe my crust was too gooey, but I just could not get it on the pizza stone without fucking up my pizza. I was making a very thin-crust pizza and I put corn meal and flour on the peel so I could just slide it from the peel onto the stone, but it didn't work..
Should I bake my crust first and then make the pizza and cook it?
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So I'm learning all this stuff for my job at the moment and I'm trying to confirm something. Making a GUI in the future with Visual C++ is pretty much worthless/dead/obsolete, confirm? That's not to say you can't do it with the old GDI+ and Windows Forms stuff but it seems like MS is saying 'yeah fuck that old dirty stuff and use C#+XAML with Windows Presentation Foundation and you'll get a much better GUI in less time with less work.' Am I wrong?
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took a half hour in the ronco rotisserie.. I have to wait a few hours before I grind some up >:-D
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anyone here have the lacie ones? they seem pretty expensive.. but expensive means good, rite? it seems like it's hard to find any drives with firewire in em, or at least at the stores im looking at.
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http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~3/119432900/
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rick hunter twink fantasy
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I'm definitely going to see it. I think it'll be more fun popcorn.
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Is anyone able to get the email address of a given sender to pop up when you hover the mouse cursor over the sender name? [in your inbox]
Mine hasn't been doing it lately and I wonder if I somehow broke or changed Firefox scripting [I assume its a scripting function]
the Matrix on HDDVD is fucking amazing.
Larry Fishburne looks even more like the surface of the moon.
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