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Good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game for a relatively low price. Human and Seeker(the bad aliens) weapons along with "force" powers like shields and lifting abilities enhance the game. The flick targeting system is both helpful and annoying. It alloys you to quickly target an enemy but can switch enemies while fighting which is extremely annoying.

GREAT!...almost

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game a couple months ago soon after i bought an xbox, i had read a few reviews and stuff and it sounded ok. A lot more peopleare now reporting a lot of glitches and problems. This has happened to me a couple times, the machine has froze up on me twice in the probably 50 hours I have played this game, and that's not very much. The framerate does sometimes slow down, but you just have to move out of the fight for it to come back.
The graphics are amazing along with the character models, sure there could have been more graphical details, but some of the landscape was pretty vast. The cinematics, although quite long,were very well done and bring the story along nicely. Also the music fits the game well and is very catchy, I would find it stuck in my head a lot and want to be able to listen to it.
Now on to the gameplay, this isn't your typical third person shooter, rather than an over the shoulder view like ghost recon, they used a farther back veiw which allows you to see more of the character. This also improves the look of meleeing, but i would have liked to be able to implement weapons into meleeing. The dodging abilities and increasing stats in powers, athleitcs, and melee change the game every time you play it, you can focus on a certain gun one time you play, and only use your powers the next time you play through it. Th flick targeting system is a very innovative design and, once you get used to it, is very cool.
overall, if you can look past the glitches this game has, it is a very fun game and is worth picking up, even if its short. Especially with the twist it has in the end of this first game in a hopefully trilogy

Brilliantly Original

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well, I've just finished this first installment, and must say it is rather brilliant. I must give it a full five stars, because I approve so of the innovations in gameplay and theme.

The gameplay is a little difficult, on account of being complex. But the game's opening gives one the ability to familiarize oneself with combat for as long as one likes before moving on, and I advise doing so - besides the practicality of it, the weapons availible from the start are gleefully powerful and fun to use. Later on in the game one is given mind powers to use, and one will need to rely on these in several parts of the game. These powers are exciting and beautifully rendered, as well as original.

Gameplay is pushed beyond the normal limits of play/video alternation, with many situations where events that would normally be conveyed via a clip instead integrated into the gameplay - calling for more reflexes and making things that much more immersive.

The game does have its technical faults, as many have said. These amounted for me to a bit of lag in several places, abnormalities in the sound delivery (this is the main fault - some noises are skipped, some are delivered at reduced volume, some were even too loud. None of these were particularly annoying, though, and only happen when there is a large workload on the system, such as during large firefights), and a few freezes, but these only near the beginning of the game. Given the graphical quality, however, none of this was surprising. Rather, I'm surprised they could go this far with the Xbox, and I suspect that future installments will be made for the 360 instead.

As for the story, it deserves all the praise it's gotten, for it is entertaining and polished enough, as one would expect with the screenplay written by Orson Scott Card. For the record, I admire the decision to give story that much attention, and feel that this is the direction which games need to continue to go, as they are replacing television as the dominant form of entertainment. The story is also strangely compelling, for myself at least, in the way it protrays human beings - contrasted against alien races, revered as the originators by these peoples (contrary to the popular new-age belief that alien races "planted" us here!), and given extraordinary power. I'm not quite sure of the how and why of this themery yet, and suspect that it will be dealt with more in future. But, in the face of ruthless destruction, mankind has found the ability to fight back with unelievable power, and the character which we play is the catalyst to it all. At the same time there is a sense of loss, of no going backwards. Sound worth your while? I think so, I just think so.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game was amazing, I know it has been compaired to halo but it blows halo out of the water, the plot is awsome and the graphics and setting are riviting. I would recomend this game to any gamer.

Well I liked it....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well, I liked it. I never encountered any of the technical gitches that other people are reporting, and I had no problem with the flick targeting. I enjoyed the combat system - its tough to do something some complicated seamlessly, especially without a keyboard or other device with lots of buttons.
Hey, the story was a bit melodramatic and the voice acting was sort of funny, but I liked the cheese. The music was fantastic and I thought the game played very well overall.

Starts off strong, then falters almost immediately.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was hooked with this game right away. I found the characters interesting, the environments thriving, and the writing top notch.

Then the gameplay actually started.

As soon as you start fighting aliens, this game falls apart. The story, which starts at just the right pace (introducing characters and their world, showing off what the for the Xbox was really impressive graphics), immediately snorts a shot of cocaine, destroys the friendly alien spaceship as if it were made out of wooden blocks (seriously, the vastly advanced good-aliens can't survive for more than a minute, but the human space-station is able to survive for the entire first level?), and starts throwing evil aliens at you.

It seems as if the developers were trying to pull the game in too many directions to do any one thing well. The cut-scenes are painfully repetitive, the characters turn into mushy stereotypes almost immediately, and the aliens would be completely harmless to any normal human society, as they fight like badly trained chickens. If it weren't for the constant bugs and glitches I'm sure that the humans would have a much easier time defending themselves.

The game had a ton of potential, and the initial shuttle flight scene that opens the game is one of the most beautiful things that I have ever seen in a Sci-fi game. I really wanted this game to be good, but it ended up just being somewhat annoying.

Underesimated and overlooked

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

There are some review sites and reviewers that say this is a horrible game. but the fact is this is one of the best games I have played on a last generation console. It is a downright shame they canceled the trilogy. The game balances easy and fun game play with an epic story. If you have the old Xbox, order this game. Its just that simple.

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