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| From: Sega of America
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $24.90
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 5770
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 85222
Model: 85222
UPC: 010086852226
EAN: 0010086852226
ASIN: B0012ZPYQM
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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Fun but short August 18, 2008
I enjoyed playing the game. Its more of a shooter with some editable parameters than an RPG. My biggest issue with the game is that it is short. A good RPG should give you roughly 40 hours of play. This is solvable in ~14.
The game takes place soley on a large space transport. There are no other ships to deal with and no planetside exploration. As the main character you kill aliens and cyborgs upon your space craft. You can collect parts from these kills or find them around the ship in containers and boxes. These parts can be used to upgrade weapons you find or buy health packs and grenades,as well as improve your or your robots stats.
You have the choice to apply cybornetic parts to yourself during the game and these can make you stonger, but you lose humanity. This opens up various skills in the skill tree and can allow you the use of different weapons. The game is completable without using them so they are not completely necessary, but a nice way to change up play.
There are two possible story lines in the game, but play is very similar so its almost the same story line, just different dialog and end movie.
The strategy is addictive and using the environment to help with difficult battles is fun. I don't see a lot of replay value in the game, but perhaps online multiplayer will add to that.
I gave the game an overall 3 rating as it is fun, just too short for the cost.
 Good game August 17, 2008
I like this game. It took a little getting use to (about 1/2 hr of game play) but once you get the hang of the controls and menus it is a lot of fun to play. The graphics are good not great and I would have prefered first person, it kind of reminds me of Diablo for looks (top down). I would recommend this game.
actually, I really liked it! August 15, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
After checking out the website and movie clips, I bought the game. While waiting for it, I saw some official reviews - and the reviews were average, with plenty of criticisms, making me wonder if I should have bought the game after all. I had played the demo and thought, perhaps it will be okay, but now that I finally have the game and have been playing it, I really like it!
I think the reviewer problems is that they thought it would be more of a rpg, but it's really more of an action game. There are skills you can put points into, and you have a selection of First-Person-Shooter style weapons that you can spend points on to upgrade them, as well as a robot companion you can upgrade. However, there's no branching conversations or much in the way of character interactions.
The levels have a good amount of object destructability in them, with exploding barrels and containers, shattering scenery, and things like some windows breaking if shot, and stuff like that. In the reviews I read, they said it was just the same boring scenery - grey walls and rooms - throughout the game, but in playing the game there is good variety in floor and wall textures and decorations, even if they are all metal, there's even a bio area with trees and grass and water. I think they did a good job for an environment aboard a spaceship.
I liked the lighting and effects, the sound and music. I guess it might not appeal to everyone, but it certainly appeals to me. I'm currently saving up for a new computer to play some of the recent high-end computer games, and I was pleasantly surprised that this game runs at full settings on my current older computer. So it might not be a cutting-edge, high-end, next-gen title, but I'm having a lot of fun with it anyway. I think the demo didn't give a complete feel for it, or perhaps should have been longer. The main thing is to not go into it thinking it's a similar game to diablo or dungeon siege, because it's not about loot collection, it's more like a first-person shooter game, but from an isometric perspective instead of looking through your eyes.
 EMPTY Space! August 14, 2008
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
Boring and irrelevant.
Seems like an attempt was made to "dumb-down" this game for greater appeal. But this just leaves a feeling of plenty that is missing.
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