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I got this game yesterday, and it's freaking sweet.

Basicly to sum the storyline up, there's a race called "The Seekers" (No, it's not Moose's map...), they appear to everyone as a good race, but in reality, they're not. One day, another race called the Aurelians show up at your planet (Not Earth, Earth got blown up a while ago), and warn you that the Seekers are coming to kill you and all the humans. They see the humans as God's, and offer anything they can to help them.

You are Gideon Wyeth. You go out to the meet the Aurelians when they tell you about the planet getting blown up and stuff, and right after you leave, they come.

Well anyways, this game is really cool. You can level up in alot of masteries just by using it, so jumping alot lets you be able to jump higher and do more effective dodge moves, ect. One of the Aurelians teaches you the "Old Religion" which basicly enables you to use powers like Push, Shield, Shatter, and some other cool stuff. Theres eight different powers, and 12 (I think) different weapons that you can get throught the game.

Any weapon(s) you pick up are duel-wieldable, so you can have two machine guns, two pistols, two rocket launchers, ect, and every weapon has an alternate fire mode, ranging from emptying the clip in one shot, grenades, and more. Powers also take up a slot in your hand, so you can have two powers, two weapons, or one weapon and one power at the same time. What's even cooler, is that you can go hand to hand with ANYONE, so if you run out of ammo, you can just start beating down people. You can do all kind of combos, like seismic punch, snapping peoples necks, and more. Certain power's can be used in tandem with melee fighting too, so you can use a time dash to get in an enemies face really fast.

The fighting in this game is intense. You can have you and two allies fighting off swarms of seekers. You can jump around, and dodging gives you a head shot lock. If you get your dodging up high enough, then you can slow time everytime your dodging in a combat thing. You end up doing space battles, where everyone jumps really high, and you can use a power to chunk people off the edge. The dodging system works great. You can dive away from people, depending on your level, you can roll or flip away from people, or just jump back shooting both weapons at the same time.

Another cool thing is that you can switch from between third and first person view, so which ever you like better, you can stick with.

Also, this game, depending on some choices, determines the outcome of the game.

Mastering weapons and abilities works great too. You can get increased damage, accuracy, alternate fire for powers, seeking bullets, new combos, better dodging, and more. If you use something alot, it's going to get mastered quick, but if you don't, then you wont master it very fast.

There's a variatety of vehicles in this game. You don't get to piolet much (Three different vehicles, I think) but the ones you get to use are cool. There's a hover tank that does insane amounts of damage, and a buggy like thing that if you use it's boosters fast enough, you can literally fly through the air.

The music in this game is brilliant, it blends in nice and sounds great. The sounds effects are the same. The graphics are a little...round, I would say, not like the top notch, but still realistic. When you go into first person mode, they don't look all that great either, but, it's not that bad.

There's only one thing I don't really like about this game, which was the targeting system. You don't have to use it, but it's still nice to use, but it locks on whenever you move the camera joystick, so sometimes you'll be walking up something, move your camera, and it'll lock onto an enemy or object below you, while there's still people near you. It's not the hardest thing to use, but it get's annoying when it keeps moving around and makes you move places you don't want to.

My Ratings:

Gameplay (Fighting, ect): 10/10
Interface (HUD, targeting, ect.): 8/10
Storyline: 9/10
Graphics: 7/10
Sounds: 10/10

Overall Rating: 9/10

I would recommend this to anyone who likes fast paced games, such as The Specialists, a mod for Half-Life.

when i saw the commercial i thought that game looked alot like halo for some reason. especially the aliens

Did you hear about the 1 million dollar prize for finding icons on Xbox live?

A friend of mine who bought it said the same, it reminded him of Halo.

When your in First-Person mode, it is kinda like Halo.

Yeah, one weird thing about this game is how you magicly reload every weapon by spinning it. Doesn't really make sense, but hey, who cares.

I think i'll head out and rent this one... some of my latest purchases without actually playen the game haven't gone so well lately.

edit: good review by the way, gives a lot of information for not actually given away too much. 8.5/10 on your review.

What it's out must get now! Having total Orsan Scott Card fan boy moment... OK I'm good.

Gamespot disagrees with you.
And they even mention "I felt like playing Halo in Third Person the entire time"
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/adventrising/review.html
I don't have an Xbox but GameSpot is 97% of the time right about their ratings, and the fans are half and half. A lot same it's best game ever, a lot say it's broken and unplayable.

OSC helped with the story? No shit, I can't wait till the 30th when I can play it.

ADDITION:

Haha, that's funny. 97% of the time. Of course I disagree with that and think their reviews are off most of the time. I hate gamespot. But you really have to play the game to decide for yourself.

Well 97% of the time for me, of course they could rate something like Dynasty Warriosr 5 a 6 because it's "over used" which I disagree with, that's why I added the Fans part, to show what real people thought of the game.

so, its an RPG, right?

are there melee weapons (like swords and such)?

It's more of a Third/First Person Shooter with the Stat/Level up things of an RPG.

Unless you can hit people with some of the guns (I didn't use them all, so I don't know) then the only melee attack is fist fighting.

I agree, most of the time it's really just players prefrence. some people hate certain types of games while others love em. is either the worse gamer? nah, just like different kinds of games.

Well, I saw the commercial, and I really wanted it. My friend rented it and I watched him play for it, but didn't really get to play for myself. It seemed a lot like halo so I didn't want to buy it right away. Everywhere I went to rent it, they were out. Anyone who already got it/tried it, I'd love to see your opinions

*cough*http://www.staredit.net/index.php?showtopic=16637*cough*

Well, I don't like to use game reviewing sites/magazines because they're half the time paid off by the game makers themselves and people have different perspectives than your own.

Anyway, as I watched my friend play it, I agree, its very fast paced and the targeting system is horrible, untill you learn the time controlling spells of course...

And yes, my friend said if you upgrade your melee enough, you can get a sort of spear mastery, its the things those aliens have on their wrists...

also people just like different types of games