User Reviews (1 - 11 of 123)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

Phenomenal game. Plain and simple.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

All I can say is wow. From start to finish a rock solid game with great visuals and non stop action. Get this game, you will NOT be disappointed.

Favorite PS3 Title

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is by far my favorite PS3 game of all time. The acting is top notch, the dialog is superb, the story keeps you interested, the characters are colorful and original, the graphics are stunning, the controls are easy to learn. There is so much about the game I love. You will get attached to the characters. - it's not just a hack n' slash game for the sake of it. You truly get immersed. My favorite bad guy character was Flying Fox. He was so funny! Of course, Nariko kicks major butt and she's not some gratuitously drawn cartoon with ridiculously large bosoms like many of the female protagonists in video games. I played this game twice and it was fun learning more and more of the special combos that Nariko is capable of. This is a truly outstanding game.

What a beautiful, beautiful game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've never seen a game this beautiful. Background graphics are cinematic and breathtaking. The details are amazing; hairs flowing as the character runs, the clothes wave as the winds blow, and most impressive is the way light reflects and makes shadows on every object and surface in great detail -- just amazing. Almost looks like pre-rendered ray-traced 3D CG animation (it's not) happening on-the-fly as you play. To top it all off, game play is fast-moving and fun with no boring moments. If you have a PS3, this is definitely the game to own to show off its prowess.

Good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is good ..i love the few games out there who make so much use of sixaxis feature ..
nice gameplay ...still playing so cant comment on the length as most of the ppl talking about ...
But So far so good :)

Riddle of the Flying Hats!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We just purchased this game on Friday, July 4th.

Pros:
Stunning graphics... really top notch!
Great voice acting
Great story line
Interesting use of the hats!

Cons:
Too many "combos" well over 120.
Six axis control is not what it's hyped up to be in this game
Character control is sub par.
Interesting use of the hats!

The graphics and colors are second to none! I have never played a video game before that matches this game in use of color! The scenery and settings are gorgeous. The voice acting is perfect! And although I'm only a couple of hours into the game, the story line so far is truly interesting!

Now the bad part...

To memorize over 120 combinations... which covers all the attacks, defense, stances, etc is more than what many gamers are willing to try to memorize... what works for what, etc!!

The six axis controler needs to be refined considerably.. not sure if this is a problem with the engineering of the controller or the game itself, since this is the first game I've played so far that makes use of motion detection.

Many times you have to use the cone type hats popular among asian agri-workers as a means of hitting multiple targets great distances apart... by bouncing them off a series of gongs! Case in point, I was in a compound high atop a mountain peak and had to throw a hat probably around half a mile or greater to hit a gong with it bouncing back another half mile or so to hit a gong in the compound where I was at... and sometimes you have to do it in a specific order! You actually spend much more time trying to solve the puzzle of hitting these gongs than you do fighting your enemies!

Character control leaves so very much to be desired during the hat throwing. Most times it is difficult to get your heroine positioned properly to throw hats. I DO like the fact that you can do minor mid-course corrections in the trajectory of the hats as it travels out to meet it's target (the camera follows behind the hat as it travels across great spaces to the target gong!) The camera view while following projectiles is spectacular! I love it!

Would I recommend this game to my friends who have the PS3? Yes. Four stars... for both overal and fun... not three.

Beatiful game but not challenging enough

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I got this game for my new PS3. Let me tell ya, it blows Xbox out of the water. There is no comparison between the 360 and the PS3 other than price of games. Not only does this game look great, but it's really fun to play. I don't know what all the fuss was over the combos and "button mashing" It's the type of game where button mashing can get you through it so many people do it.

I think that's fine for normal or easy, but since this game only has one difficulty mode. While it's really fun to kill all of these bad guys, I wanted more! I didn't die ONCE in this game or even come close to dying!

That upsets me that such a wonderfully done game (and I mean it is designed perfectly from the guided cinematic action sequences to the sixaxis ballistic controls)is so unforgivably easy. Once I learned the combos, I just ruined every bad guy. I don't mean to brag. I don't fancy myself as the Jesus of fighting games, but I am pretty good... also the bad guys would telegraph their intentions so I would have time to react to the one attacking and know what attack that he was doing to me. That made it WAAAYYYY too easy to counter and kill! There should be a mode in which the player doesn't know from which way the attack is coming or what type of attack it is (quick, power, normal).

I think that most people are complaining about the length of game play due to the lack of difficulty of the game. If only there were stronger and smarter enemies to slay...

So to conclude, I only gave this game a bad review because it was too easy. Definitely recommend this game if you have a PS3, but if you're a competent gamer, you won't have any problems with it and would be better off renting it for the weekend.

Fantastic game that's over too soon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Wow. This game was amazing. I bought it because I liked the graphical style and wanted to see what Andy Serkis would bring to his role in the game's development. I was blown away by the dramatic storyline and fun gameplay. This is what next gen gaming should be about. This game couldn't have been done, at least not nearly as well, on the previous generation of consoles.

I have the same gripe that everyone else does, and that is that the game is short. However, I am happy that is isn't needlessly padded. I'd rather have an excellent short game than an okay long game. Adding additional "chapters" to the story might have caused the game's momentum to slow and the game to feel repetitive. It's like a book. Some stories take 200 pages to tell, while others can only be told with 1000 or more. Game length shouldn't be dictated by some arbitrary decision, but rather based on the story and game mechanics.

It saddens me to see that Ninja Theory has left this franchise beyond to work on something different. Whoever Sony gets to do the next game in this series has their work cut out for them. I hope they're up to the challenge though, because this is a franchise that I'd like to see continue.

Short but good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Excellent graphics, very well done characters and voice acting. Great cutscenes. Great use of the six-axis. Good checkpoint/savepoint system (you'll never lose more than about 10 minutes of played time). Those are the good points about this game.
Short (I'm bad at action games and finished this in like 7 hours playtime), no real replay value, and repetitive combat are the bad points.
Makes for an excellent rental.

This game is a must play.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game a while ago and it had been sitting because I couldn't stop playing COD4. I put it in and was hooked right away...a friend of mine was watching me play and he wants a PS3 now just to play it. Best use of the sixaxis by far. The only knock I had was that Normal mode was too easy in a lot of areas. I wish it would have let me play on Hell mode from the beginning. Then people wouldn't complain on how short it is. If you don't play a game on the hardest setting available...then you shouldn't even review it.

Heavenly game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It's a beautiful game with excellent visuals, exciting music, and great action! The action never seems to stop and the story is very fast paced. The game can be thought of as the female version of God of War. In the easy mode, all the enemies are easy to beat. You may, however, find it difficult to beat some of the final level bosses. But with some practice, you should be able to pull it off. The war scenes (gameplay) is just phenomenal.

In this game, you get to guide your arrows or missiles by using the SixAxis controller. This in itself is a great feature. This is a game from the slasher genre and your hands will start to pain after some time because of the constant button mashing. Again, let me stress that the game has excellent visual appeal.

The gameplay is short but you won't find it boring to play this game multiple times. If you are looking for a slasher game with some puzzles, then this game is for you. My recommendation is to go for this and include it in your PS3 collection. By far, one of the best games I have played on a PS3.

Review Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next 

Actions