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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.

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.

The greatest game for the X-Box?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In this generation of gaming, a dark age if ever there was one, where great games are few and far between, and sequel after sequel sells while great aspirations so often go unrealized, swept away in the flood of mediocrity, comes a game that turns me back into a true believer...

I've been around. I've owned so many game systems, tried so many styles of games. I've looked and searched and hoped and dreamed...that there would one day come a game that took the strengths and lost the weaknesses that have plagued seemingly every action game.

What does a good action game need? What have they been lacking? Well, think of all those stupid first-person-shooters, all those mindless action games. They have you mowing down hordes of enemies...and then jumping across a gap and falling to your death! You're blasting your way through all kinds of madness, and then you can't find the key to open the stupid door to the next area! How often I would dream of a game where there's no stupid jumping puzzles! No stupid key searches! Instead...you blast enemies, the story progresses, and the doors OPEN when you approach them! YES!!!!! But I'm getting ahead of myself.

This game is what every Star Wars action game wishes it was. It's what Jedi Knight should have been. It's what Gun Valkyrie shoudl have been. It's what I've been waiting for...a fun game!

The beginning of the game you're walking around and talking and training. Then you meet the aliens. And all heck breaks loose. And wow! Suddenly with both X-box triggers you're blasting through hordes of enemies as the ship breaks apart. And from there the action almost never stops.

Your abilities level up as you go, and after a few levels you get POWERS. Then the game immediately goes from good to AWESOME. All powers have level ups that come from usage. And as the game progresses the powers get progressively cooler. But the real greatness comes not from the powers but what you can DO with them. You can grab weapons out of enemies hands, then shoot them with them. You can freeze time and run to enemies and take them down in hand-to-hand combat. You can put up energy shields and then backflip and cartwheel in and out of their path while firing energy blasts out of your hands. You can snipe with guns and toss enemies around with with telekinesis. And because you of the awesome targeting system and excellent control menus, it's painless to target enemies and switch weapons and powers.

Most of the complaints in this game seem to center around said flick-targeting system, glitches in the system, slow-down, and camera issues. Some also don't like the difficulty. To all of this I say...what's your problem?

The flick-targeting system is brilliant. It allows you to easily switch targets and focus the camera instantly. You can adjust it's sensitivity if it's not working for you quite right. Same with the camera. But honestly, this is an ACTION game. AJUST TO IT! Every game has camera issues! Most action games have slowdown! And as games with bugs go, please keep in mind that Knights of the Old Republic has more bugs than the state of Florida and people got over that! Honestly, the bugs, slow-down, jaggies, WHATEVER simply aren't big enough to even be an issue.

The game has INCREDIBLE level design. It has loads of cool weapons. It has GREAT boss battles (fighting a flying tank single-handedly for the first time was so much fun the first time!). It's LOADS of fun. It has a great story, great music, great controls, adjustable difficulty, inspired characters, good voice-acting, and simply limitless possibilities for gameplay.

For a long while I thought this was a four star game because of the bugs and slowdown and whatnot. But in light of the slow-motion dodging, the music, the gamespy, and the incredible amount of FUN that this game is, I simply cannot give it fewer than five stars. This is one of the most under-rated games I've ever played, and probably the best game for the X-Box, with only the phenomenal KOTOR games challenging it. Everyone who likes action or sci-fi games should definitely play this game. I don't think I'll ever get tired of it. It's just too deep and fun a game!

Advent rising the most UNDERRATED game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Advent rising simply is a great game. The gameplay is fun and unique combining groundbreaking elements never before seen in a video game. It had top-notch sound as well as pretty good graphics and effects. The game does have a few visual glitches but these are soon
forgotten; lost in advent rising's greatness.
Gameplay-5
sound-5
story-5
graphics-4

Advent rising simply was given much hate and distaste undeservingly. The reviews for the game are great scratch a few from gamespot.

Great writer, great soundtrack - but trilogy stopped.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Advent Rising features a story by Orson Scott Card, and music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Talk about a game with great promise. Humans are the answer to an alien prophecy - and because of that, they are the target of destruction.

The graphics are a Halo style and draw from many sci-fi legends. One race looks like the Predators. There are robot-style creatures. There are creatures a la Judi Densch. The look in general is sort of "exaggerated human" with wide shoulders, bell bottom pants and blocky doors and supports. There aren't shiny surfaces and reflective surfaces here - instead you get strange artifacts and extra lines.

Generally, the pretty creatures are good - and the ugly creatures are bad. The story progresses along standard Sci Fi lines, which isn't bad of course. I love Sci Fi stories. There are aliens, and good aliens, and bad aliens. There are truces and betrayals. The game has a good dose of plot along with its enemy bashing.

The soundtrack works in smoothly with the game. The voices sound rather good for a computer game, and the music and sound draw you along into the game.

We played all the way through this game several times, enjoy the plot and game play. There were little situations that we would miss on one pass, and only catch when we were watching for them.

There was originally a big contest associated with this game for promotion reasons - but they've *already* lost the URL for that page, and it goes to one of those spammy holding pages. That is pretty sad, and a rather clear indication that this game didn't sell as well as they had hoped it would.

The game was also set up to be a trilogy - but the game webpages for this game still talk about its first release in the future tense and there is no word at all about future game releases. I guess this is one of those trilogies where we only get to see the first third of the game.

Well recommended - but be aware that you are not going to get any future releases out of this, according to current sales figures. I always hate games that end in a "to be continued" mode and it's even worse when the game is NOT continued.

Can't wait for the last two games to end the trilogy.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Alright... I don't normally leave reviews. I just happen to believe this game deserves one.

Note: Everyone likes to compare games. I'm basing this review purely on gameplay and story.

Pros:
-Great story. Some say that cliches that were stolen from every sci-fi movie. (Duh, sci-fi game... it's going to have the same concepts. All games are going to have to use concepts from something else. Advent Rising just happens to have the ability to make it, its own.)
-Well directed cut-scenes. (Some cut-scenes aren't as nice because I think they're just made to get the point across.)
-Bonding with characters.

Cons:
-Flick-targeting takes some getting used to. (But once you do... it can be a beautiful thing. If you get sick of locking on to the random objects in the room... Just turn it off in your settings.)
-Game has crashed. (That's because my Xbox is getting old. I swear the damn things are made to wear out.)
-Framerate drops from time to time. (I haven't had any sound problems except for ONE cut-scene. The sound lagged behind the characters speaking. OH! And at times the sound is too quiet. But really... It's not so bad.)

Advent Rising

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Advent rising has an excellent story. The weapons range from alien weapons to your own superhuman powers. The gameplay and graphics are simply amazing. The levels are so full of color it looked like a PC game. The gameplay although repitive at times is very fun most of the time, plus the mix of cars and turrets is great. The cut secens really move the story along which is probally the best part of the game and I can't wait to see where it goes in the follow up games.

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.

Very overhyped.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game should have been good, with the brilliant Orson Scott Card as the storywriter and renowned video game musician Tommy Tallarico as the sound track creator, but it isnt. The story line is very derrivitive and dull, the graphics are seriously outdated, the flick targeting system is annoying and unresponsive, the frame rate was aweful, and there were tons of bugs and glitches littered through out the game. The only good I can say about the game is that the flick targeting system is a good idea, the power ups are pretty cool, and the sountrack to the game is amazing. If you are an Orson Scott Card fan, or in search of a good game, then stay away from Advent Rising. Just hope that the sequels will be better.

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.

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