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Perfection

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Giants is the perfect blend of fun, graphics, humor, and - well, it's just a great game. The graphics are impeccable, and they are good enough that they should still be top-of-the-line for a long time. Giants is not just eye-candy, it is also incredibly fun, no matter what interests a gamer has. If one likes strategy games - you can build a cool base, if one likes third-person shooters - this is better than any third-person shooter I know, and as for first-person - well, this game is beaten only by a great game of Counter-Strike online. Now, I am a jaded thirteen year-old, and not much amuses me, but the humor in this game is enough to cause a wholehearted chuckle. That is more than ANY other game has caused. Now, the other side of this game is the bugs. Yes, they exist. In fact, on my new 900MHz Athlon computer with a Vanta/LT 8MB video card, I was lucky to get over 5 frames per second at the lowest resolution and detail level; Giants was not playable. But after forking over $200 for a 64MB DDR ATI Radeon graphics card, I can run this at 1600x1200 resolution at 32-bit color depth with bumpmapping and reflective surfaces on and I get over 25 frames per second. Not perfect, but when I'm not too greedy, I can get silky smooth gameplay. Kudos to Planet Moon.

Darn... can't think of a good title for my review....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game kicks butt! Albeit, with all graphics options at their lowest I can get decent framerates with my nVidia Vanta LT 16MB, The game still rocks! It's a great game, with a whole lotta humor mixed into the cutscenes. Also, You can explore virtually any part of the island, as long as you can reach it with your jetpack, flying ability, or Kabuto's ability to climb (charge up most surfaces) and jump from them to other nearby islands. And man does it rule to play as Delphi, goodbye Lara Croft, this is one hot video game character, and she can do MAGIC!!! Of course I don't play this game for that... really I don't...

Drive your'peace,love&happiness friends away' or eat them

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the first attempt at balanced multi-race mutli-player gaming. One has a big knife, one has a big gun, one is...well just big. He's 40 feet tall and 'sneak a snack' means you'd best watch your back at all times unless you like short baths in ketchup and soda. The 9/1998 press release says, "EAT, BURN, DROWN, KIDNAP OR BURY VICTIMS." Now, I don't actually requiring the digging a hole and shoving someone in, but being taken by surprise by a Reaper, or thrown into the air like popcorn, or just dropping to the ground due to a sudden loss of blood pressure for no reason (except that gaping would in your left side) may expand on the idea. Obviously ESRB rated M = Mature. However, the graphics are light when compared to Doom3, Half Life, or Alice by EA. Here are some more...
11/23/2004 NIMF (National Institute on Media and the Family) most violent games: Doom3, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life2, Halo2, Resident Evil Outbreak, Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, The Guy Game, Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, Mortal Kombat: Deception, and Rumble Roses.
11/23/2004 ICCR (Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility) most violent games: Doom3, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life2, Halo2, Manhunt, Mortal Kombat: Deception, Postal2, Shadow Hearts: Covenant, and Hitman: Blood Money.
I've given you a list to avoid, or to enjoy. You pick. I'm not even into first person shooters, but data is data.

The programmers are rumored to all be crazy, Scottish, or both, but seem to have taken up residence in San Francisco, further leading to the conclusion of crazy. You can clean up the swamps, bogs, etc., build a bridge, and great city, but the place is still a disaster. Why do you think the Southern half of Oregon and the most northern part of CA want to secede and form the new State of Jefferson? I think they need 400,000 people to do this...must be something in the water...but anyway... :)

This will run on WinXP, even though released in ~1998. 64MB of memory on the video card and 256MB on the m-board is still not enough if you want to turn up the shadows and rock'n roll. American Delphi copies come with a arpfix.gzp file. Multi-player is off the LAN (for best latency, use the cross over cable). Many single player chapters of hilarity, oh's, and ah's. Fly several hundred feet in the air, drive a boat, throw your enemy across the landscape into the next hill over, or view your prey from the 3rd person or "Kabuto Mouth-Cam". Build turrets, set land mines, collect peoples souls, or stick them to your belt and walk away so you can have a snack later. Games can't don't do this today!!! They were so far ahead of the crowd it was unthinkable. The fast & fun combo of 1st & 3rd-person, with building too is something that all the major distributors are aiming for. When you see Kabuto body-slam the player's base so hard the earth makes waves and all the other buildings jump, you know you found a winner! Again, in 2004 no one will even dare use different scale monsters until Lord of the Rings came out. Then, Blizzard tried it with World of War Craft. Wizards/Atari had Bio-Ware try and they made dragons that looked like they were all stuck in a subway car, just got packed out of a suit-case, or just plain squished in NWN (Never Winters Nights).

The distributor is Interplay. Titus hopped over the pond here, laid off the developers, boosted up production, kicked out the stock boys after it all shipped, stopped paying wages to customer service, tried to hide the liability and ran back home. The U.S. Gov't today is still trying to get the money back. But, they knew what they were after, crossing the Atlantic. Planet Moon Studios got this one right. nVidia supports the graphics. Creative and AMD are all built into it too.

If you didn't actually make it through all that: This is a really cool game. I bought it used on Amazon.com for less than the shipping. Yeah for Amazon.com!

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs, Bugs, BUGS!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: August 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I first downloaded the demo of Giants from the Interplay web site. I thought wow this is a great game. There is a nice story line and great graphics. After going through the demo four times I went out and purchased Giants. I have an 800MHz Processor 256 Meg of Ram and a 32 Meg Video card. I more than meet the game requirements. I start playing the game and it hangs (aka the screen/keyboard locks and a reboot is needed). Interplay support line is excellent at responding to questions but after 10 emails back and forth and upreving and back reving drivers and patches, there was absolutely no change. Some people are able to play Giants without lots of crashes but there is a LARGE number of people that cannot play the game without it crashing often. (Often = don't expect to finish a mission without at least one crash per mission) I really think without the crashes this is a wonderful game, but I don't have the patience to keep replaying missions because Interplay didn't get alot of the bugs out of there game before releasing it. The latest patch in June 2001, didn't resolve my issues. The worst thing is even if the demo has no issues on your computer the real game might still not work on your computer. BUYER BEWARE!

pretty damn good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a really entertaining game. All three races are a blast to play. Obviously, playing as Kabuto is one of the main draws, but the Meccs and Sea Reapers are also very cool. The single player campaign is great; you play as the Meccaryns, Delphi the Sea Reaper, and Kabuto in succession in one linked story, similar to the structure of Starcraft (another awesome game). The plot itself isn't all that original; it's a fairly basic story of good vs. evil, with love, betrayal, etc. along the way. What makes it brilliant is the characters. The Meccs, aside from their leader, Baz, are a bunch of bumbling party animals who just want to fix their ship and get to the party planet, Majorca. They interact with the Smarties, who, despite the name, aren't terribly bright as a species, although they are good at building stuff. Timmy, Grandpa Borjoyzee, Timmy's mother and father, and Yan the Samurai Smartie are all hilarious. The story remains very amusing throughout the Mecc and Sea Reaper levels, but gets a little fuzzy during the Kabuto levels. Although I guess you can't really ask for much story from a gigantic mindless engine of destruction. Still, I was a little disappointed by the lack of cutscenes at this point in the game. That's one of two things keeping this game from a perfect 5 stars in my book. It's other flaw was that it wasn't challenging enough. It didn't take me very long to get through the entire game, although it's enough fun that playing it over again is almost as good as the first time through. I didn't encounter any crashing bugs that other people have reported, but I downloaded the patch, so that's probably why. All in all, this game is worth the money just for the ingame movies, which are really funny. Plus the game itself is a lot of fun. Definitely worth the money, if you can meet the high system requirements.

The New Standard in Games is Here!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: September 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Wow! A game of such scope that it's mind boggling! So much thought and originality has gone into this game that when you play it you become aware that you're truly experiencing something on a different level, even outside the realm of videogames as we know them. Planet Moon is really trying something new here, and they deserve a lot of credit for coming up with the goods. This game fun, beautiful, hilarious, and an absoulte must!

Great Idea, Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What captures right away the eye are the wonderful landscapes: colors, grass, sea, the sun that moves through the horizon with all its spectacular effects.

Now, what happens in the game: you begin out as a Mecc, a tecnologic warrior that has to help out some strange alien little wierdos called smarties in their combat for existence against the evil sea reaper race.

As the game goes on you will control from one to five meccs, then control a beautiful reaper woman who allies with the meccs and in the end you will become the allmighty Kabuto...but I won't tell you who that guy is, even if it's easy to figure it out.

The game is divided in chapters, 5 for each kind of character you are going to control (mecc, reaper, Kabuto) and the missions are interesting and fortunately not too easy.

Best part of it: the fly sensation. The meccs have a jetpack and the reaper has an incredible "turbo" power that actually make them fly or jump granting you an exceptional almost real "speed and fly" sensation.

Bad part of it:

1) no in mission saves, if you die you start the whole mission over again.

2) bugs, sometimes the whole game blinks out of existence and you end up staring at the desktop after losing an hour and a half on a mission...and as I said, you couldn't save. So, ok, let's do it all over again.

Overall: Great ideas, wonderful grafics, very original plot and characters, original game structure...but it could have been realized better.

excellent game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game was one of very few good games that has been made lately. I have been looking for a new shooter for a long time. I saw this game and bought it. But there are some faults, and that is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. This is a list of pros and cons

1.Pros - very good graphics, funny cutscenes, great gameplay with lots of action

2.Cons - must have a good graphics card to get the good graphics, have to play missions in an assigned order (Meccs, Delphi, Kabuto) unless you use cheats

I think that the Kabuto missions are the most fun because i get to blow stuff up. The thing with Interplay putting clothes on Delphi does not ruin the game. If you really do want to take her clothes off there is a file that you can remove called "arpfix.gzp".

Giants, A Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Giants is one of the best games i have ever played. The graphics are great, even on my Voodoo3 card. I cant wait until i can play this game on my GeForce2. All I can say is that if your computer will run this game BUY IT NOW!

Great! I Feel Of My Chair Laughing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. In the first movie I laughed. And through the game I laughed. Plus the Mecc, Reaper, and the great giant himself Kabuto's missions were great to play but still hard so you could have a great time. I think everyone should have this game!

Cheers!

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