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average rating --- 2 stars

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 24
Date: January 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

4 short games, 50 dollars each. Now, 2 games would have been fine. 4 games is a joke. The creators are obviously trying to mooch all the money they can. The first game got repetitive. They have taken it to a whole new level.

You still do the exact same things. If you find a great sword you can't use it, but you can give it to the person who wants it. If you get to the bottom theres a boss and a cutscene. Later you go into another dungeon that looks EXACTLY the same as the last one.

The game fails to prove it's own worth. Now, if they only made 2 long games, as I have said, that would have been fine. Get a new engine guys, or a new concept. It doesn't work 4 times in a row.

JUNK

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 28
Date: August 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the most boring role-playing game I've experienced. The first 5 hours have a great plot, and then *nothing*. Just hack'n'slash and repetitive dungeons for the next 20 hours. I quit the game before finishing.

All Hack games suck

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: November 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought the first one it was really cool for the first few hours but then the excitement began to wear off and I began to notice the glitches. The gameplay sucks. The combat is too stiff and you have to pause alot which gets boring alot it took me forever to learn how to equip my characters. Also the graohics aren't all that great there isn't much detail only during the cut scenes. and finally the major downer is the world design pretty much all the diffrent places you go to are the same. You run around fighting enemies passing buildings that you can't go into and all the places are like that. Especially the dungeons they are the worst part all the dungeons are the same some longer than the others although with diffrent themes like beinf inside a giant or a ice dungeon etc... it sucks. The only thing interesting about it is the dvd but even that gets old after a while. I tried playing it again but I just lost steam and I am done playing for good. Spend your money on the new final fantasy game DO NOT BUY ANY OF THE HACK GAMES ALSO GO TO GAMESPOT.COM AND READ THEIR REVIEWS YOU"LL SEE!

Office Depot sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 45
Date: October 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

well, I can't rate this item because it is shipped through Office Depot and they don't have the common sense to send packages to PO boxes. It's a sad, sad world when a guy can't get his .hack fix. I'm sure you are all loving it cuz I hear it rocks.

gravely disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: December 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Drawbacks
-the graphics and gameplay are idenical to the first 2 games.
I have become so sick of the same dungeons, and fields...I can't count how many times I've been into a blue dungeon idenical to the very first one in part 1 (infection)
-The storyline has gone from intriguing, to bizzare and confusing.
-the one and only new city looks ALOT like the 2nd city in .hack//infection (dun loriage), and it's very tiresome to shop there due to the fact the shops are very far apart and the graphics just repeat.
- the game itself is incredibly short.
- the DVD was also bizzare, and the story line (if there is one) was just a bunch of random events, and people talking about the epitath of twilight.

The Good
- the new characters are more colorful than the last.

I was a huge .hack fan..now I feel jipped.
I'm definately never buying from Bandai again..
rent it...you'll have no time completing it several times over in 4 days.

first review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 18
Date: May 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Never played. Enjoyed the earlier games. I suggest buying this game if you played the earlier games. A summary of the series is that it is a real time back and forth RPG game. Like EverQuest with a storyline.

Wasn't worth the wait...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Now, as a BIG .hack fan, I have to say that this volume of the series was disappointing. Why? Because it was just like .hack//MUTATION, except for a few things.
Of course there were new characters, more character development, and upgrades, but that was it. It's really not worth your $... If you're obsessed with the series, go ahead, buy it. But if you're not, just wait 'till the last one comes out.

Yet Another Golden Grunty

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 24 / 26
Date: October 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

From a story viewpoint, this is the most interesting of the .hack games so far. Kite's efforts to find a way to help his friend Orca and other players who now lay comatose find him cooperating with a surprising array of characters. Several new companions appear, including Balmung, who originally stood in Kite's way. In addition, Kite manages to unite Helba and Lios in an effort to fight the encroaching virus wave that is attacking not only the game, but the world beyond it. And in the background, frightened CC Corp executives are preparing to pull the plug on the games servers - even though this will end all efforts to cure the injured.

If the story and character definition have improves, though, the game play has stayed the same. This isn't all bad, since the .hack series is marked by an easily playable game interface for what is actually a complicated RPG dungeon based battle style. But after two games, the third gets a bit repetitious. The dungeons aren't quite the fun they were, and long time players will find themselves rushing through the levels once they have figured out the needed battle strategies.

Which introduces the real flaw in spreading the game over four volumes, something I'll call 'over-levelling' for lack of a better term. All of the games allow the player to continue once the core game is complete. During the down time between games one is encouraged to play to complete side quests and improve stats. Which I did after completing .hack//MUTATION.

Unfortunately, the side effect is that all my main characters were already at high levels when I started Outbreak. The result is that I spent a whole game with Kite getting exactly one experience point per kill. In other words, he advanced exactly one level during the entire game. That is tedious, and reduces character development to a continuous quest for items that will permanently improve stats. Also, high stats mean you tend to blast through most conflicts without much need for finesse.

Despite this, .hack//OUTBREAK is one of this years better games. The marketing scheme where the story is allowed to progress ovewr several media makes the .hack universe a rich experience, and the games are marked by a high level of professional quality. If you are a fan of dungeon based RPGs you will want this. The accompanying Liminality DVD, by the way, is the best so far in the series.

.hack//outbreak

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: March 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

While .hack// is quite a phenomenon, a review of the enjoyment of this game has nothing to do with the anime series (although fans of the series can find little easter eggs in the game series).

The strengths of .hack//outbreak are the same as the first two in the series (.hack//infection and mutation): it has a great plot line, interesting new skill system, easy to use interface, and you can continue on your character into the next of the series. This is as expected, there were no changes to the game design. Despite this, I found this game to have lost some of its excitement (relevant to the series, it still found this game more exciting than other comparable games, like FFX or X-2).

In my opinion, they introduced a weakness to the series by making this a 4 installment series rather than a 3. I've started the 4th game and am very excited, but due to the total series game play hours and the layout of the plot, it would have been better as a 3 game series (with no plot changes, just the quantity of material per release changed). Go capitalism.

Like the previous game, if I were to say this game had any other weakness, it would be that it is quite a bit shorter than many comparable games. With completion of the story line (in this installment), the extras, and just having a little fun, I completed the game in about 30 hours.

Overall, the .hack//outbreak is a must have if you wish to play the series. I don't think that the series would have been as much fun if I did not play all of the installments. Having finished the first three game, .hack//mutation is my favorite of the series so far, but quarantine may very well take that throne once I finish it.

one of the best RPG's

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: October 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i have played .HACK and right off and it's fun. if u like RPG's i recomend this game or just buy the whole saga for that matter.

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