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Some prerelease impression for all us mac users

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: June 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Here's a rundown: The game takes place on a little chunk of living planet floating through space. It's native population includes Smarties (big-headed people with Scottish accents) the Sea Reapers (baddies) and among other beasts Kabuto (a giant monster created by the Sea Reapers.) With the arrivial of the Meccs (a high tech race of soldiers who just want to fix their ship and get to some party planet) who work with the Smarties, things start to heat up. The three races collide in what turns out to be a humerous story where you get to play three characters. It does contain some gross humor, language and violence) This game was made by the people who brought us Eathworn Jim! What do you expect but something twistedly funny? Anyway, the game's three playable characters are: Delphi, a scantily clad young Sea Reaper girl, the uproariously funny Meccs (did I mention they have jetpacks?) and of course the draw of the game: Kabuto. You can eat people, smash things and lay little eggs and raise baby Kabutos (Kabuti? Kabutoes?) to do your nefarious bidding. People's only complaint was some buggy PC performance not covered by patches and that the storyline gets repetative. A PS2 port is also in the works. But I don't know when that's going to come out. And there are some games that should be experienced in their original keyboard and mouse format. Needless to say this game looks great and something that the quality starved mac gaming market needs. Playing both the Mecc and Sea Reaver demos on a high end PC I noticed that you'll need a good graphics card and fast processor for this visually astounding game, so it may be tough for those of us with iMac DV 400s. But hang in there because Giants is gonna come stomping onto the mac.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: May 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game shows up what OS X is really capable of doing. It is very beautifully rendered. It works much better with a 32 MB Video card but works Ok with a 16 MB. It is very funny and exciting. I highly recommend this game. It is a great value for the money.

Best Game for the Mac...EVER!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this game and my breath has simply been taken away! The graphics, story, and gameplay all work together to make a playing experience unlike any other. No other game on the Mac comes close, and believe me, I have them all. The game is really addictive and hilariously funny as well! Anyone who doesn't have it is really missing out. Anyway...back to the game ;)

lost lots of sleep

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is stunning! Graphics are GREAT. It is very easy too lose track of time. Story line is very funny. If you dont have a 5-button mouse yet this game is a good reason to get one. This game only runs on MAC OS X so all you OS 9 users will have to update your system software.

Awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is fantastic. Fun, funny, and challenging. Not to easy that you finish it in one sitting. I've been playing for almost a month and it still has me interested. The only reason it is not 5 stars is that you cannot save save the game in the middle of missions. Some of the missions take an hour or more of playing and if you stop mid-way you have to start all over again the next time you play.
As for nudity, my version has the female characters in a bikini. I read that they changed the graphics to get rid of the nudity.

Entertaining story, but nearly unplayable game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: July 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is funny and enjoyable during the cutscenes, but cutscenes are not enough to make a game fun to play. As Meccaryns the game is fairly good. The combination of their jetpacks and weapons make them fun until the levels in which bases become involved, at which point your lack of ability to directly control more than one character makes it very frustrating, especially when you are need to leave the base for resources, but are being attacked from multiple unknown directions. In the other two thirds of the game, any ranged weapons that are available quickly become useless and the melee combat systems are very poorly implemented. The one thing that all of the characters that the player uses in this game have one thing in common: they move too slowly! I found myself using every special power that I had to get across the monotonous expanses to find the next enemy or objective, so that they weren't available when I got there... this isn't an RPG, the player shouldn't have to do that much walking. In short, the developers of this game couldn't decide on a genre, so they threw together the worst elements of several. It's a shame, a great game could have been made with this story, but the developers failed to do so.

Totally Unique

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game! It was thoroughly engaging from beginning to end. It has just the right combination of strategy, action, and humor. I have to laugh at the earlier reviewer knocking the nudity: the only way to get the nudity is to download a hack that specifically says what it does. Besides it is only partial nudity and was only in the 'mermaid' section of the game and it is tastefully done.

Too much nudity and crude language

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 27
Date: November 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game has great, action-filled play. However, the mermaids, with their fully developed, unclothed, human bodies there for all to see is basically animated pornography. The crude language throughout makes the game a complete turnoff.

Saving Mac for last and doing only OS 10?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 34
Date: October 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ironic this game will play on windows 95 which is the equivalent of Mac OS 7.5 but won't run on anything less than OS 10 for a Mac. Welp, that's not enough for me to upgrade to OS 10. Guess I'd rather put the $250 in RAM and software upgrades towards a new Playstation/Xbox.

Somebody is getting a kickback for that I'm sure.

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