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Customer Reviews Great game, 2010-03-02I love this game, I just got addicted and I can't stop playing it. :D  Prototype, 2010-06-11Prototype. Oddly e nough, I think of comics when I think of this game. Specifically, Marvel Comics. The claw weapon upgrade that I currently use (being only a few missions in) are very much Wolverine-like, and the tendrils are rather Venom-esque. Yet, if you think this is a comic-based game, you're wrong. Very wrong. The first bit of gamplay puts you smack bang in the middle of New York City with a whole horde of Infected and Military, all thinking one thing: KILL ALEX MERCER. Fortunately, you have a whole arsenal of weapons to utilise, such as aforemention claws (which are as long as my forearm!) or blades (which are as long as my whole arm!) and so on and so forth. Cue bloodbath. The ease of the way the combat works could be described as too simple by some, but I like it. The camera is good - I've not had any problems with it so far - and the movement controls are pretty good too, even if I do get reminded of the Incredible Hulk, jumping around and generally trashing a city - I sometimes end up falling off buildings, but seeing as you literally don't get a scratch from falling a billion feet, no harm done. The story is immersive, and while I have my issues with certain exploding water towers, it's an interesting way to make a somewhat routine mission that bit more interesting. Overall, this is a very good game, and well worth buying. Repetitive button basher, 2010-09-01You are Alex Mercer. Waking up on a slab in a lab, you have no idea what has happened or what is going on. In your escape, you discover superhuman powers, tied into the mysterious release of a mutating virus working its way through Manhattan. Alex has both the power to disguise himself, jump a long way and glide, but also to grow claws, a huge blade, pounding dumb-bell type fists and armour, as well as heat vision and the ability to detect virus-infected creatures. He's hugely more powerful than many of the enemies you'll encounter, and at first, this sense of power is quite cool. You'll enjoy running up the sides of tall buildings, floating gently down or simply falling down and staying unharmed as the impact crater around you spreads. Killing soldiers, passers by and even tanks is easy, and quite satisfying. Unfortunately, I enjoyed the game less and less as it went on. It quickly becomes formulaic - and it's a bad formula. In some ways it feels a lot like Red Faction: Guerilla, as the game philosophy is very much along the lines of 'more is better' - so the game will throw three tanks at you in quick succession, or five hunter mutants, or three helicopters. It quickly turns into a button basher with little regard for skill. It's also a bit repetitive - whilst there are strategic 'protect this' or 'take out these select targets' missions, you'll quite quickly get detected and have to resort to tactics of mass destruction. The missions are also usually segmented into three sections which are virtually identical (although of increasing difficulty). You can't seem to save mid-mission, rather like Bayonetta, so once you've started a mission, you'll want to finish it or you'll have to start again. Most of the bosses are ok, although one will have you grinding your teeth in annoyance. The sound is ok - I didn't really notice the music being anything special and there's the usual round of swishes, chops and screams of bystanders are you puree them. The graphics aren't amazing - most of the city looks fairly similar. The combos tend to be quite annoying - I ended up using just one or two, as some of them need you to press fairly unlikely or unmemorable combos (X and B for instance. Who can press X and B together?) Overall, good concept, but poor execution. The game is of a good length, but I couldn't wait to finish it. Anyone for Carnage?, 2010-03-08Sweet. Jesus. How to describe a game where you can kill an old lady, eat her, take on her identity, run up the nearest skyscraper and then elbow drop off the top on to the horrified and confused onlookers below? Sound fun? Cause that's only the beginning of the carnage in probably the most over the top insane game i have ever had the joy to play. Are you the kind of person who, when playing GTA, treats the missions as kind of a side project, preferring mindless destruction instead? Well this is a bit like that, on steroids, in the middle of an apocalypse, and you've got super powers, and a bats**t mental moral compass. In short. Amazing. Of course all this would count for nothing if the game itself was crap. But it's not. The game looks good. The story is fine. The controls don't get in the way and the sub-missions are satisfying and challenging. The game is more than proficient in all these area's without really excelling but then again, when you can throw cars at helicopters who really cares. If this sounds like your kind of thing then buy it. Buy it now and you will be happily bathed in blood and showered in scattered limbs for weeks to come. Lovely literally a killer game.., 2010-02-22This game is amazing.. that should be enough description really. The game follows the life of Alex Mercer. a man with no memory of his life but instead god like powers. He wakes up in a morgue and kills his way to the truth about how he got there. On the way amassing powers that start with super strength to wolverine blades to a wicked Scythe arm. Run up walls, glide, hijack military vehicle, consume any living organism. And then theres the devastator attacks hes got. just youtube it. watch him burst out in a cloud of angry spikes that kills most everything around him. Theres the main storyline and side games (events) where you have to achieve medals. took me 20 hrs just to go through the story mode because of it as i was gunning for the event EPs. 40 achievements on xBox 360. No online-play mode. No addons yet. A real entertainer but once you put in 60 odd hours (like me) it gets pretty repetitive. Massive amounts of blood and gore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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