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Buy Fuzion Frenzy 1

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The "gameshow host" in this game is possibly the most annoying computer generated character since Jar Jar Binks.

This game is actually pretty fun for about 2 hours.

One good thing about it- you can earn a lot of easy gamerscore points by playing through with each of the different characters. That's really the only good thing about it.

Only thing going for it is online play

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In pretty much every other respect except graphics, Fuzion Frenzy 1 is the better game. This is still fun and playable, but offers nothing compelling in terms of gameplay or minigame variety. And FF1 is backward compatible on the 360, so unless you really dig the online action, I'd say go with it instead.

Where FF1 = FF2: The minigames have a good variety and are easy to pick up and play. Tournament mode gets you planning how to come out on top in the end, whereas Minigame Frenzy focuses on just winning individual minigames. In tournament mode, each zone has its own minigames and Final Battle. There's no "board game" mode like Mario Party has. The six characters play identically and have forgettable personalities. Every minigame is 4-player free-for-all, unlike Mario Party which also has 1-player, 1v1, 2v2, or 3v1 games.

Where FF2 > FF1: Custom matches give you more flexibility in configuring yor contest. Online play lets you get in a 4-player match of any brand anytime. The Rumble minigames are cool (but not as cool as the original's Fuzion Frenzy match). The Achievements are very easy to unlock.

Where FF1 > FF2: FF1's announcer wasn't much less cheezy than FF2's, but FF2's "DJ Varcanno" is ALWAYS yapping! You can mute and skip his time-consuming dialog in single-player mode but not online. Another lame FF2 feature is the cards, which seriously take away from actual minigame skill in deciding Tournament mode and add only a cheap comeback chance. Finally, the Fuzion Frenzy match that capped the Tournaments in FF1 are gone.

General: There is nothing outstanding about Fuzion Frenzy's brand of minigame action. When it cuts to the core, the gameplay itself, it is quickly satisfying... as long as you have other people to play with. If you like playing online, it's worth checking out. Otherwise, find FF1 for way less money or just avoid the series altogether. You're not missing out on anything special.

NEX-GEN? FUZION FRENZY 1 IS MORE FUN

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been waiting for this game for months. I loved Fuzion Frenzy on XBox and couldn't wait to see the nex-gen version. I bought this game on its release date and wish I would have waited for a used copy. First and foremost, why did they remove "Fuzion Frenzy" from the game? That was the best part of the game, risking your points and stealing your opponents. Second, the announcer is extremely annoying and his quips are repetitive to the point of hurting the game. Also, how hard is it to announce the winning players name. Player 1 wins the tournament, this is nex-gen and the game can't announce the character. If you loved Fuzion Frenzy 1, you might be disappointed in this "upgrade." I sure was.

Utterly disappointing:(

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Im sure this game was developed by a totaly diferent team than the first one, Makes me sad to think of how such a great game as the fist one was stained with something like this.

First of all, the game is unresponsive, this being one of the key factors that made FF1 so good. Second, the host shoots out random phrases or stupid things like "was that a lot of damage player one", by the way, he has a very limited selection of stupid phrases so sometimes you get the same phrase 3 or 4 times back to back. The menus interaction is really slow(contrary to the theme of the game) and uncomfortable...

The games are uncreative, and the ones that got copied from FF1 were "updated" and now suck. twisted system has an extremely uncomfortable camera angle and different timing so you get what I mean.

Not 1 good game in the 40+

Please don't buy this, Im sad I paid these people to ruin such a good game, dont do the same...

Utterly disappointing:(

Not that great

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I feel that the first Fuzion Frenzy game was fun but with this one has only a couple games that are fun and the guys voice is very annoying. I bought it and have not had the urge to play it again...Do not recommend purchasing waste of money..

HORRIBLE DON'T BUY!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

IF YOU ARE BUYING THIS GAME BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE PLAYING WITH OTHERS ONLINE YOU ARE SADLY MISTAKEN!!!Almost no one else goes online to play this game. don't buy.

Really only one reason

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

there is really only one reason you should buy this game. Easy achievement points. sure we all remember the first one but the controls are nowhere near as precise as they should be on half the games, the announcer is annoying as hell and many of the games just dont give you that feeling of reward. but honestly, given a few hours and someone else over xbox live you can unlock all 1000 pts. there are only 14 achievements.

Far cry from the original version

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My friends and I have been big Fuzion Frenzy fans for years. We'd get together and spend hours playing the mini games. They were fun, quick to start and play, and we got a big kick out of the cheesy announcer with his strained, cracked voice screaming out "Fuzion Frenzy!". Yes, we're a silly bunch.

Anyway, my original Xbox died a couple of months ago; the DVD drive stopped reading. I was looking at close to $80 for a replacement (unit + shipping) so I decided to just upgrade to a Xbox 360, and of course buy the sequel to our favorite game, Fuzion Frenzy 2.

I'll say right now, this game, aside from the fact that you're playing mini games, is nothing like the original. The game is non-play animation heavy (lots of long useless segue animations), the structure of the gameplay is different, and there's no Fuzion Frenzy round! To my friends and I, that was the best part of the game! We'd have a blast gathering orbs (from the game field or by stealing them from each other) and avoiding each other and the play field hazards.

Though I expected the mini games to be different in this release, I didn't expect them to be quite so varied in visual and play complexity. Some are very busy visually and require use of both thumbsticks and buttons, where others are visually boring and require button use only. In some ways this parallels the original version, however the levels were never so busy as to detract attention from what you were doing as they are in Fuzion Frenzy 2.

To give an idea of loss of game play in Fuzion Frenzy 2, my friends and I would usually play a 6-stage set of mini games inside a half hour. However, in Fuzion Frenzy 2 we gave up one game into the second round of mini games after 45 minutes. Yes, that much useless animation was added between mini games.

What used to be a fun, mindless party game has now become a more involved, needlessly bloated game that is sure to cause you and your friends to become disinterested in playing it as the game sluggishly moves from one mini game to the next. Aside from better graphics, they really missed the point with this sequel. I definitely did not get my money's worth with this purchase.

No better than part 1

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I liked FF 1 better. I guess the sequel didn't outdo it. If you want it, get it used/discounted.

Fun mini games, slow moving, poor presentation

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: February 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Many of us fans of the original FF from the original XBOX were anxiously awaiting the release of a sequel. After waiting so long it is finally here.

Back from the original game are the characters we have all grown to love (or in some cases hate). Samson, Naomi, Geena, Dub, Jet, and every annoying Zack. Also in this game is a slew of brand new mini games, as well as some favorites from the original including, Sumo and Twisted System, sadly some favorites did not make it for whatever reason. That is not to say the new games are not as fun, because they are. One game involves you having to sink your opponent's boat using the water that opponents are trying to sink your boat with. Another one has you trying to stay on a waterfall by pressing random button that appears on screen. So the fun factor of the actual mini games is still there for the most part. However the Fuzion Frenzy round from the original game has been replaced with a beat the crap out of your opponents round in which you basically do that, using items and powerups from the environment. It's not as fun as the "Fuzion Frenzy", but still pretty fun nonetheless. Instead of different game zones in FF1, FF2 games take place on different planets, Earth and several other ficticious ones.

Graphics while not a big issue with a party game like this, are pretty well done, but like all of us know graphics is not what make a game like this fun, its the presentation, and sadly the presentation of this game falls way short of the original. The main problem is that the game moves entirely too slow. Instead of going directly to the action, before each mini game, you have to listen to this corny host with a light tie, lights shooting out of his shoulders, and buttons on his cuff links blab on and on, talking about the same thing, which is basically nothing. His voice is annoying as well. Ever so often you have to compete in a mini game to get stupid cards, and every time he says "Now you will play a game which I prepared myself on the ship." Luckily you can skip through this annoying babble and get to the game a little faster. But even during game play the announcer is annoying, always babbling along and he can't even say the characters' names, instead he says "How are you doing Player 1?", or "Player 3 lands an attack", YES he says "Player 1", not Samson, Naomi, Zack or ANY of the character names. Why? I have no idea, even the original version said the character names, surely the 360 version could do the same, but I guess not. This separates the player from the game even more. Even the character dialog themselves seem robotic and no emotion what so ever. I miss the annoying dialog from the original, like Zacks "Zack, shalack lack ack ack". They still saw some smart a$$ things, but nothing like the original.

Adding to the frustration, is that there are now annoying cards you can use before each mini game, which allow you to multiply your point values you earn in the mini game, meaning if you lose in the mini game and only get 2 point, if you use your x6 card, it means you would get 12 points, and if the winner didn't use a card, then you will be declared the winner of the mini game, even though you came in dead last. Cheesiest at its finest. Other cards reverse the effect of cards, so if you use a reversal card and someone else uses a x6 card, that effect will turn into a divided by 6 card instead. Another card allows you to steal the effect of a card from another player. More cheese.

And if that's not enough, only player 1 can gain achievements during game play. This is not a big issue for me, since my wife and I only play to have fun, but for some people this is a big deal since if Player 2, 3 or 4 wins the whole game, there will be nothing to show for it. I don't play online, but for those that do, there can only be one player per 360, so if you have two people at your home hoping you two will get to play online at the same time, forget it, only one player per XBOX online. Clearly lazy developing as they surely should have known players would want to be able to play otherwise.

This game had the potential to be even greater than the original, and when it comes to actual game play, it's pretty close, but the main thing that ruined this from being the incredibly fun game, was the poor presentation. Its like Hudson tried way too hard to make this game into an intergalactic game show instead of keeping it simple and focusing on what made the original so fun. The fun of the games is definitely top notch, but the overall presentation hurt my overall rating of this game.

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