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| From: Namco
Category: Video Games
List Price: $4.99
Buy Used: $1.82
You Save: $3.17 (64%)
New (22) Used (21) from $1.82
Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 8869
Platform: Xbox
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 20002NAM
UPC: 722674200028
EAN: 0722674200028
ASIN: B00009XS68
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Unique first person perspective fighting game system. | | • | Fierce weapon-based FPS combat. | | • | Compelling science fiction story line told through high-quality real time rendered graphics. | | • | Detailed, immersive 3D worlds. | | • | Featuring contemporary licensed music |
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Product Description
Breakdown, exclusive to Xbox, is a sci-fi thriller that combines the best elements of shooters and fighters in a first-person action/adventure game. The games intense storyline is told through high-quality real time rendered graphics that bring an unprecedented level of realism to the player.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
Not quite a classic, but worth your time August 17, 2008
Breakdown's graphics have managed to stand the test of time, although the gameplay is a bit dated. The story is pretty straightforward, but the few plot twists made the game quite interesting. It is a bit on the difficult side and requires some skill to beat the harder parts. The real selling point is the cheap price, at 4.99 + shipping it's a steal.
This game is playable on both Xbox and Xbox 360.
 pretty fun December 19, 2007
I know this game isn't the best out there but i liked it. Nobody can say the story was pretty cool and the game was fun to play itself
Good Story July 22, 2007
Pretty unique game. I like the storyline. The game play is different. The graphics are pretty good. The music is pretty good. Not a bad purchase.
GO AND BUY IT NOW! November 13, 2005
Well I'll make it short for you, buy it now. Yes, it is too hard but you do get used to it even though it gets harder every time you get better. I, myself, have never found a game that I can't beat in 4 days (about 15 hours.) However, this game really challenged me. That made it even better for me. Anyone really good at games will love this a lot more than someone who can't beat simple ones. Really, it's good for everyone though, so buy it if you have some spare cash.
One of the most underrated Xbox titles you can get... March 28, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I remember a lil' game that hit stores a few months ago called "Breakdown". The game was suppose to be revolutionary and all that stuff but I see this game didn't get very "great" scores if you know what I mean, and seeing this is from Namco(the same people who braught us the awesome SOUL CALIBUR)I decided to finally buy this game 4 days ago(and man was this a good 14 bucks)and I must say, anyone who didn't like Breakdown for its story or visuals are just plain STUPID!
Lets get to it..
Breakdown plays in FPS mode through out the whole game with no visual cutscenes or nothing like that, it's all in Real time. I'm not going to get into the story but you can just read that for yourself from gamesites or gamemagazines. Besides the fact that Breakdown acctually has a great Story, the visuals were suppose to be like the way they are. I don't understand why it's getting all this bickering over the visuals, what!? Were you expecting Doom3 visuals???..Jeez, other then the superb story and great visuals the gameplay is both awesome......and very frustraiting..
The gameplay is what got this game mixed reviews for most, I must start off by saying you ONLY get 3 weapons, 2 of them are pretty useful(which is the rocket launcher and the pistol)but the most usless and somewhat frustraiting weapon is the SMG, my god...this gun WILL NOT kill the person your aiming for unless you're like 5 feet away from him!!! And maybe it's just me but I want to kill those idiots at Namco for making such terrible controls for the hand to hand combat, you will die so manytimes from the frustraiting learning curve that it's not even funny...There were times(such as the first time I met 3 T lans)were I'd throw my control on the floor in anger, this game can get very, very frustraiting EVEN ON EASY MODE.. And why is everyone complaining about the lengh, the lengh is pretty decent, not great...but decent...same lengh as Halo 2, if you ask me...Other then that...
Good
-Great Visuals
-Great hand to hand combat engine
-Superb Story that is being bashed on by alot of gamers
-Great sound, very detailed and great characters
-Unique, original and very very wierd...
-Decent length, took me about 9 hours and 50 minutes..
Bad
-Terrible, terrible, frustraiting hand to hand combat learning curve
-60% of the game, or even more, is just mostly opening doors, running to the next linear hallway, open the next to door, ect..
-Most people will get turned off by it's extreamly Linear gameplay levels..
-Frustraiting enemies like fighting 3 or 4 enemies at once might push some gamers to throw there controls on the ground in anger...like myself..and trust me, it ain't pretty
Other then that, if you got 10 bucks to spare, get this game, it's not only an awesome game, but it's pretty original and has great visuals, great story and great action....the only bad thing about it is the frustraiting controls. Alot of people will hate this game and Alot of people will love this game...I personally enjoyed this game(but I mainly got this to get my mind of Doom 3 for xbox) Overall...I give this a
4.1 out of 5 stars
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