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A warning to all: avoid this game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: November 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoy RPGs, and when I first saw this game, I was excited when I saw it was a 4 CD game! Then I played it. First of all, the monster encounters were terrible. Personally I enjoy games where you at least can see the monster coming (Tomb Raider), or at least it's a surprise when they show up (Resident Evil). With D2, as soon as I heard my Dreamcast console warm up, I knew I was about to meet up with a monster. Then, it thrusts you into first person mode and you can't run away! All you can do is aim and shoot. Second, the puzzles were easier than first grade math. Third, I forced myself to play to the end (which was fairly easy to get to) and it was extremely anti-climactic. Storywise I felt forced from situation to situation. The only positive I can say is that the graphics were nice eyecandy (although I've been more scared of the mosters in either Resident Evil or even Quake). I enjoyed riding the snowmobile around. That's it. I've heard that the graphics were a lot more hard-core in the Japanese version. If only they hadn't tampered with it, maybe it would have made D2 worth owning.

this game (...)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game had boring graphics akward game play repettition of events nothing like it looked to be. The main chacter dosent even talk. over all this game (...)!

More of a movie then an actual game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: September 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

D2 has it's moments but for the most part this game is just plain boring. The graphics are stellar, the cinematics were well done and the controls are pretty easy to learn, but when it comes to actual gameplay, there is a lack there of. The game consists of four discs of little more then repetive cgi movies. You control a women who never speeks on camera but supposidly does off. You are forced to trek back and forth to the same spots over and over again killing the same monsters in the same spots the same way each time. 90% of the time you will have no control of what is going on and just sit back and watch. And for every little thing your character does, open doors, pick up an item and so on, you are forced to watch a quick cut scene, Everytime. It gets very old very fast. For those who actualy like to play games rather then look over your friends shoulder and watch, look elsewhere. Don't even bother with this coaster.

If I want a movie I will buy a DVD

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: September 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is not a game it is a completely computer rendered movie with good Dialogue decent story and wonderful music. The problem is I play video games to play and this title lacks gameplay in a woeful manner. You switch modes so there is some upclose gun battles alot of em in fact thats all the gameplay really consists of besides wandering around. The hunting mode is fun for about ten minutes until you master it. I would buy this game for under twenty bucks and be happy with the entertainment value I got from the FMV's and the soundtrack both of which are incredible. If you are looking for a scary little movie that you push along you might just like it but rent first.

Laaaaaaaaaaaame!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game has blocky and awkward cinematics and the gameplay isn't much better. I played this game for about 4 hours or so and then gave up on it. Do yourself a favor and skip this one unless you're a die hard survival horror fan. -Osiris Z

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2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I personally did not like D2. My reason is this. Having played and enjoyed Resident Evil, I have a certain benchmark for Survival Horror games. This game just didn't reach my high expectations.

You will immediatly find that your part in the game is more as a bystander than as a actual participant. When exploring a room, one zooms in on objects rather than approaches them. You never actually move about the area. When you are outside, this is different but running from area to area just leads to battles.

And that is one of the other problems I had with this game. Battles consist of you firing a gun at a achargiing enemy and hoping you stop them before they hit you. You can't move, dodge or run away. That makes for repetitive combat.

The movies are good and all but they are very long and they make a large protion of the game. To tell the truth, I bouth this game because it was Mature and I wanted to know why. After an hour of play, I could have cared less. Buy Resident Evil anything instead.

"HARDCORE GAMERS ONLY"

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

"Is this a movie or a video game". About 75% of the timeline is cinema.The characters don't even talk in-sync,it's like watching a japaness dubbed movie.But yet, i don't want to discourage this type of gameplay,i like to see more of it in the furture, It's cinematic charm is a plus,it's weapons are awesome,it's simple gameplay is entertaning.it took me four days to finish it.

Poetic, but a little talky...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Not bad for the price, this adventure game is fairly easy for the experienced gamer. Its real strength is in the setting (a snowy Canadian landscape) and the characters, who are all developed over frequent cut-scenes. If anything, the game is pretty talky, and at times you'll do anything to get back to the action. A moderate recommendation to fans of the survival horror genre; all others should probably steer clear.

Strange

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

D2 didn't wow the world when it came out. It's long gone now but here's my review anyway. You play as Laura Parton, survivor of a plane crash in the freezing wastelands of northern Canada. There are a few other survivors but unfortunately some of them have mutated into green plant type monsters. You need to find help, avoid monsters and work out what caused that plane to crash.

Playing D2 is like watching a very, VERY slow movie. It's really one long interactive cut scene with breaks when you need to do something to start the next one. All Laura really does is move about in 1st person mode and press a button to interact with something in front of her. Every interaction causes a little cut scene to play. This could be picking up a healing aid, looking at somebody who is asleep (and not going to answer you), or opeing a door. It looks daft, and after the first 5 minutes it gets quite tiresome. This is how the game plays out in nearly every inside environment. Outside, things change a bit. We leap into glorious 3rd person view and watch Laura trudge around the snow. Now, the mountain landscapes you have to cross are actually pretty amazing. They do make you feel cold, and the sound of snow underfoot is wonderfully realistic. Unfortunately Laura also has to fight monsters outside and this is a bit more clumsy. Again, we go back to 1st person for fighting and it's very, nay almost impossible to fight without getting hit, because Laura does not MOVE when she's in a battle! Luckily healing items are plentiful and seemingly infinite.

There are bosses that are quite fun. And there are some gruesome sights to see, some of which are very adult orientated. But sadly, some of the cut scenes are EXTREMELY long, with lots and lots of spoken dialogue. The lip-synching is diabolical, so these can become quite a chore to sit through. What's really daft is that Laura herself never speaks. She has all the other characters babbling straight at her, and merely grunts, sighs or makes little tuts or intakes of breath in response. If I had to talk to someone like while trapped in freezing cold cabins surrounded by monsters that I would be ready to slap them round the face after the first hour.

But all in all, I enjoyed it. Laura does have a real mystery to unfold, and some of the sights you will see are pretty unbelieveable - just wait until near the end where you have to destroy a super computer that talks to you with a female voice...you'll know what I mean. Talk about sexual imagery!!

Anyway it's all very ponderous and mysterious. Probably far too serious for it's own good. But at the end, I did feel like I had been asked to follow a very personal journey dreamed up by he game producers. They certainly had a unique take on gaming. D2 might be slow and cumbersome at times but it does have atmosphere and a heart.

A GREAT GAME

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: July 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game controls in this game are odd.You play a third person view like tomb raider, but when a battle comes up it shifts to first person.Only 3 aliens come at you at the most and the minimum is 1.The aliens pop out of the snow about every 10 steps so it's sort of alarming at first but after a while it gets on your nerves.The game has a lot of backtracking where you have to find a cabin with someone in it to talk to.You walk the entire game except for a part where you drive a snowmobile.The game is finding out what happened to the rest of the passengers on your crashed flight and what became of the hijackers after the meteor struck the plane's wing.You find at the beginning of the game that one hijacker bleeds green blood and it appears somehow they became aliens, but you don't know what happened to the rest of the passengers, did they share the same fate?The graphics are wonderful and the game itself isn't that bad except it can get boring or annoying and it is a long game(spanning 4 disks)This game is worth the money.

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