Product Reviews

Reviewer:
casshern09
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  1.  Fanboys only.

    Posted: 

    I bought Reach the other day and I am sorry to say I am thoroughly disappointed. I have been a Halo fan since the first game was released and have always bought each game when it was released. (even though ODST was awful) But this is just regurgitated stuff apart from armour upgrades (which by the way are pretty much the same as the items you pick up in Halo 3 but are reusable)
    I was so annoyed after playing the opening levels, massive let down, nothing new. Run around, shoot things, get in a vehicle, shoot things. One of the levels is practically identical to an early level in the original Halo. There are a few nice touches, some nice new weapons, animations look updated and fluid. Enemy AI is still good. The story is alright and really the only thing that kept me playing seeing as I am a bit of a lore hound.
    But I really don't see what people are so excited over. It really is nothing new. Very average shooter at best, its been done before and it has been done much better. I can only assume that most of the rave reviews are 12 year old fanboys or just people who havent played the series before. It that or they are just very easily impressed. Be wary about spending your hard earned. Its nothing special.

  2.  Loving it.

    Posted: 

    Played the beta a great deal and Im really impressed so far. Don't pay attention to people calling it 'buggy' it's a freaking beta, it's going to be buggy. The only problem I had to begin with was the guns didnt seem to register hits on people, but in the last few days there was a patch to correct the hit box detection and it's great. I much prefer this to MW2. Runs great on my machine. no frame rate drop running it on max settings. get booted from the servers now and again but again, it's a beta. I am confident they will iron everything out for the release code. They have definately learned lessons from the idiots at Infinity Ward and arent releasing a half broken pile of bilge with no dedicated servers. really looking forward to the single player too. Hoping it will allow me to learn to fly the helicopters too cos I really need the practice!
    If your a fan of online shooters, you cant really go wrong here.

  3.  But why?

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    Ok look, I can see why people liked the X-men trilogy, if you know nothing about the history of the comics then I guess they could be enjoyable. Personally being a huge X-men fan for a long time I can safely say I thought the trilogy was awful. They literally couldnt have got the story any more wrong than they did. Really they couldnt.

    But having said that I was hoping that this was going to be good as I did like Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. So I went in to watch this with fingers crossed. Oh my dear god what a pile of bilge. Once again I dont think they could have got it more wrong.
    Hugh Jackman was good as Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds was spot on as the merc with a mouth (in the first few minutes) but after the opening scene it just went so very wrong. They even managed to make Wolverine seem like a dull character. And how did they come up wth Sabretooth being related to him??? *sigh*
    Its a shame cos I liked Liev Shrieber as Sabretooth, he was very feral and did a good job.
    The person who cast Taylor Kitsch as Gambit should be lynched, they ruined one of my all time favourite characters. I wont go in to it in detail suffice to say Gambit is supposed to be Cajun and he didnt sound one bit like it.
    The whole deal with Blob was just embarrasing they managed to completely ruin Deadpool at the end. Why did they give him all those stupid powers??? It never ceases to amaze me how badly they get the story wrong in X-men films. I could go on and on.

    But forgetting that for a sec, the CG was awful. some really bad effects throughout. I almost burst out laughing when he pops his claws in the bathroom. The plot was all over the place not to mention the ending with the adamantium bullets?? Oh god I literally couldnt believe they really put that in.

    My advice if you like the comics or know anything about the real story with the X-men is ignore this at all costs it will infuriate you.
    Go play the game its actually not half bad. A hell of a lot better than this mockery.
    Although if you just want something with a plot that makes no sense and some explosions and people hitting each other then maybe youll like it. Maybe.