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Does anyone get this game?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game play is difficult, and tedious. I had no desire to blast my way through a nearly infinite supply of monsters. The timed missions are the worst. There are only two characters, and the upgrades for them are limited. The best thing I can say about the game is that the graphics are amazing.

Yuck

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Waste of time and money. Controls are not customizable, and don't make sense. This game looks like a playstation game rather than an xbox game. Will be returning mine promptly.

Pure [Junk]!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are the best thing about the game and they are nothing special, when you consider what the xbox is capable of.

The story is retarded.

Voice overs are stupid.

But by far the worst is the absolutly idiotic controls. Apparently whoever designed the controls did not want anyone to enjoy the game.

If you want a good 3rd person shooter go back to the Tomb Raiders, for now. I felt cheated on the rental thank god I didn't buy it. There is nothing about this game I would say was worth playing.

The adventure that soon becomes a frustrating chore

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This very arcade-like game gets it's inspiration from Sega's own
classic Space Harrier and it's story line directly from the animated
1990's Giant Robo series. A strange doctor discovers a new power
source that radically advances society but mysteriously disappears
thereafter.

This review was re-written after many hours of gameplay
and will highlight some of the frustration experienced five or
six levels into the game. Out of the box it's a good looking Robotech
shooter, however, just start playing it awhile and you will see how
this game can riddle you with anger. If you thought playing Gotham
Racing almost broke your controller you will bash it to splinters
with this one.

Gameplay is teasing and very demanding. This is a jumping game
first and shootem up second. More times than not you will find
yourself just BARELY missing a critical jump to a ledge only to start
again from the very very bottom of the board. For that unfun
characteristic, two stars get taken off an otherwise 4 star rating.

Throughout the terrain you will find obvious surfaces you should be
able to land on but can't. It's like a literal glass ceiling where
waterfalls and vehicles are to look at but can't walk under or land
on.

Not being able to save inside a 30 minute long mission means
you will have to repeat your failures over and over again. I'm
surprised when they were doing the QA they failed to notice
testers smashing the controllers and throwing their arms up in
frustration because all of your progress can be lost with the
slightest twitch.

The control over your movements can be compared to a pinball
bouncing off rubber bumpers, your uncoordinated movements
are like mere flippers keeping the ball on a wild course.
The spastic nature of the jet pack will have you screaming at the
TV. I compare the sensation to trying to land a hot air balloon on a
moving car.

They made this game way too hard and the level designers were way
out of touch with what the character is capable of physically doing.

Disapointing Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was pretty excited to play this game so I combed our local rental places until I found it. After half an hour my opionion could be summed up as "I am so glad I didn't buy this game".

The controls are a little difficult but my real problem with the game is that it just isn't fun. The level objectives are "kill all of the enemy units" or "find item x" and you find that you spend an awfull lot of time combing the map to find that one guy that you missed. Very boring. Also, I've read quite a few reviews that say the graphics are impressive. They're not. The graphics are actually below par for an XBox game, and the music is downright bad. I didn't realize how important music was until I played this game.

To sum up, pass on this game.

Say goodbye to your controller

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I cannot recommend this game to anybody (unless I want to see that person throw a fit). The only thing this game has going for it is its visuals. That's why I gave it a 2 instead of 1. The music is lousy and was so repetitive I had to turn the music volume way down just to keep from getting a headache. The story is as wierd as any other Japaneese anime of late. This game had the worst controls I have ever come across for the XBOX and that includes "Grabbed by the Ghoules". Even if only properly used the controllers took a lot of physical abuse in this game. This is because an often used move (thrust) essential to the game's play has been assigned to the left stick depression with no possibility of remapping. The problem with the thrust being were it is is that it HAS to be combined with a directional move to even work. Directions are also controlled with the left stick. So for example a basic move would be; push left stick in, hold it down, and move forward. That would give a forward thrust (rather than just a forward walk). Sounds simple enough on paper, but when you are forced to moved about the game like this for hours on end (thrusting quickly takes over walking) it gets to your thumbs as well as your controller I am sure. I would fail a thrust move often just becasuse it is physically awkward to perform (not just because I run out of thrust fuel). During those times I would fail to push in the stick hard enough to initiate that thrust. To add insult to injury this game doesn't end with just basic thrusts. To invoke more powerful moves from your character series of thrust moves have to be performed one after another without any break in combinations. One mistake and you start all over. To achive a "heightened" state from within your character 25 uninterrupted thrust moves have to be performed. Uninterrupted means that you cannot get hit by enemy shots or touch the ground. This is really hard to do in game considering the small amount of thrust fuel at your disposal. Throw in the aformentioned controls and it borders on impossible.

Gun Valkyrie is ok, but it is nothing compared to Halo

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was a little put out on this game. I gave it a good hour, and I tried to get into it, but I could'nt. The fine people at Sega, I would say, missed a really good chance to make a really good game. Its basically a point and shoot game, but it does alot of the pointing for you. The controls are frustrating and the whole concept seems un-original. Like I said, its ok. But not a great game.

Like all Xbox games: it looks cool.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: March 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Yet another game I regret buying for the Xbox system. The controls to this game are horrible. Gun Valkyrie has great graphics, but the controls and background music just plain bites the big one. I dont know what Microsoft is trying to pull on the masses, perhaps a secret poll to see just how many people out there like to waste their money on...systems. So far all I play on my Xbox are Halo & Max Payne, thats it... EVERY single game other than those two I have bought for the Xbox has been so terribly bad (including Gun Valkyrie) I return the following day. Mostly trading in for Playstation2 titles. I truely regret buying the Xbox system, I should have just bought [money] bucks worth of stuff for my PS2. If Sega would have fine tuned the controls of this game unstead of getting all the eye candy perfected, Gun Valkyrie would have been a cool game.

If your debating buying a PS2 or Xbox system heres my 2 cents:

Playstation-2:
Way better games.(excluding that waste of time and money State of emergency)
More selection.
EASY TO CONTROL THE GAMES.
PS2 has its own chick fighting game called ONI.

Xbox:
Only 2 games that are worth playing: Halo & Max Payne.
Growing assortment of worthless games that look great, but [stink].
The Xbox does allow me to watch DVD's and store some songs that cannot be listened too while playing games.

Dont believe me? Go out and buy a few hundred bucks worth of Xbox games, you'll be here that night crying on the net just like me. Go on, do it.

Don't Buy This Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I kind of like "Gun Valkyrie", but after watching a number of friends and especially kids play it, I have to warn against spending $ on it. Two reasons:

1. The controls for flying/jumping are over-complex, and several missions cannot be completed without this move, so you get stuck, and ultimately bored.

2. You cannot save DURING a mission, so if you get bored with trying the same jump over and over, you will have to go back to the beginning of the mission if you don;t want to leave your XBOX running all night. This, IMHO is the biggest single mistake ANY manufacturer can make with a video game...

As I said, I kind of enjoy the game, and my more dextrous gamer buddies have little problem with the controls, but a majority of "casual" gamers that I have watched play, get frustrated and even angry with the game. So I would have to recommend against buying it.

What went wong

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

For many months i have sat in front of my pc looking on the internet for any decent games to come out on the xbox. Searching around i finally found a decent web site, that was able to show me new and uncoming games. Gun Valkyrie was one of them, because not many good games were out for the xbox at the time i was intriged by the graphics and so called good gameplay. I waited for a long time for it to come out, and on its first day i got it. Ripping it out of its celophnae package i saw excellent graphics, but as soon as it was placed in my xbox and a controller was in my hand i was screaming at it because of the awkward controlls. Trying to syncronize all of the button combinations to float was killing me, so i slowely moved from level to level holding the controller in a awkward position. I was on a role, until one level, that i am still stuck on and found out the other day was the last.
I am extremly dissapointed at it, 1 bad controls 2 not enough levels 3 lack of story line,weopans, characters, and fun.
The only time i mention or look at this game is to see which one of my gullible friends will by it from me.

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