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Welcome Surprise!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After reciving this game in the mail and nearly beating it after a straight week of play I really think this first person puncher could start a new trend for the better! The controols though sticky at first get much easier to use as new abilities are granted to you.
The graphics are top of the line and suttle details like rusteling leaves under your feet and nearly perfect shading for all objects give a sence that you are really inside of the head of the character.
The story is enticing and compeling and comes at you from no where. The game seems dull and acts like a normal game untill your execution is upon you then out of no where your partner Alex some how jumps out of thin air, saves you, then vanishes again! Though it has no multiplayer ability, this game just might pave to way for more hand to hand FPS games...It is a very exciting game that I highly recomed to all people who like Halo, Final Fantasy, and Resident Evil.

Simply Astounding

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There is only a little in here that we haven't seen before. But it's all the Good Stuff with none of the drek.

The story will remind of Half-Life crossed with the Matrix, with shades of Bio Forge. But it's all presented in a fresh, smart way that makes it all very compelling.

The 1st person view point is also not what you're used to. It's not just the barrell of a big honkin gun sticking up from bottom of the screen. You engage in hand to hand combat with an array of puches, kicks, strikes and latter special attacks and powers (I won't spoil anything here!) and your hands and feet flying into the view frame and upside the enemies' heads puts you firmly in the action.

I am not even a little interested in yet another FPS, but this isn't one. It's a totally new spin on 1st person gaming which I predict will be copied from now on. NAMCO has blended the 3rd person acrobatics of titles like Tomb Raider and Splinter Cell with the shooting action of Quake and the fighting of Soul Caliber (almost). To rip off a phrase first used to describe Battlezone's new type of gameplay, "I weep at the birth of a new genre."

Go buy 2 and give one to someone you love. This is worth buying an XBOX for. No need to wait for Halo 2!

Gonna hate it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 20
Date: April 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Dis game is uuuuuuurting. fin you go play and its over like dat. No funnies and no hottie gurls. would rather spent my money on other stuff.

The ultamate mix of new and old!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

At first I saw this game to preorder and it looked like some average fps,but it isnt.Like I said the mix of old and new.Everything is in first person EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awsome sci fi WITH SHOOTING ACTION.You get to use these rad punch and kick combos.Trust me tou will most likely love this.When I played the demo,I knew this would be cool and couldnt wait to buy the real game!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The story line is original while the gameplay is awesome.
MUST HAVE for any XBOX owners out there. Simply Amazing!

Best Game I've Played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There is only a little in here that we haven't seen before. But it's all the Good Stuff with none of the drek.

The story will remind of Half-Life crossed with the Matrix, with shades of Bio Forge. But it's all presented in a fresh, smart way that makes it all very compelling.

The 1st person view point is also not what you're used to. It's not just the barrell of a big honkin gun sticking up from bottom of the screen. You engage in hand to hand combat with an array of puches, kicks, strikes and latter special attacks and powers (I won't spoil anything here!) and your hands and feet flying into the view frame and upside the enemies' heads puts you firmly in the action.

I am not even a little interested in yet another FPS, but this isn't one. It's a totally new spin on 1st person gaming which I predict will be copied from now on. NAMCO has blended the 3rd person acrobatics of titles like Tomb Raider and Splinter Cell with the shooting action of Quake and the fighting of Soul Caliber (almost). To rip off a phrase first used to describe Battlezone's new type of gameplay, "I weep at the birth of a new genre."

Go buy 2 and give one to someone you love. This is worth buying an XBOX for. No need to wait for Halo 2! (...)

Damn COOL!!!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this is cool with shooting and some kick-ass moves I just got the game and I'm on easy and I'm stuck on Solus (if you beat Solus where he goes " Object:Human" tell me how to beat him do you punch him to death) anyway is cool. It has shooting/fighting/frekeness that is cool/ and a good story even topping Halo

great innovative game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is a breath of fresh air to the FPS genre. Its actually more fun to punch someone than to shoot them!! and the story and effects are above average too.
My only gripe is that the game starts out a little slow and some sections of the game seem unecessarilly tedious. no game is perfect though, even games like halo and grand theft auto have a few imperfections.
If you want to try something different this is highly recommended.

Breaking Down "Breakdown". . .

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Give "Breakdown" the credit it deserves. It's a genre-defying first person action game with shooter elements, but an emphasis on hand-to-hand combat. That sounds strange, and it IS strange, but it actually works, if you can believe that! Add to the mix the most immersive 3D game mechanics I've yet seen, and you've got yourself a game that comes recommended despite its disappointments.

The setup is strikingly similar to "Half-Life," with a few twists here and there. You're Derrick Cole, and you come to in a glossy research facility that is being overrun by genetic freaks from another dimension. In fact, you're a bit of a genetic freak yourself, which makes you the only one capable of saving the day. It also means that you'll have to keep an eye out for armed soldiers who would like nothing more than to put a bullet in you. In all truth, the story doesn't make a lot of sense, but the game is so good at inserting you into its nonsensical setting that it becomes sufficiently compelling.

Initially, "Breakdown" feels like a first-person shooter. You must escape the facility, and firearms are in good supply to help you do just that. Things change, though, when you come face-to-face with your first mutant, as they are completely immune to gunfire. Avoidance is the only policy at first (and the game lays on the tension nice and thick), until at last you begin to morph into a being that is physically capable of taking on mutants in hand-to-hand combat. Because the shooter elements are so basic (you have a severely limited arsenal and targeting can be a chore), things start to get really interesting at this point, because, to my continuing disbelief, this form of combat works so well - provided you're not juggling several opponents at once. Sometimes the game forces you to take on a handful of powerful opponents, and it just becomes frustrating. Fortunately, in most cases it's a simple matter to lure your stupid enemies from their positions and beat them to death one-by-one. Later in the game this is less of an option, since you're hurled into rooms you can't escape until you've pummeled all the mutants it throws your way. Getting hit in the back and watching a ten second animation of you dropping to the ground is less than amusing.

The early stages of the game are immensely well done, and are complete with some staggeringly cool set pieces. One, which introduces you to the game's appropriately scary villain, a half-man called Solus, is better than just about any scripted moment I've ever seen in a game of this type. There are several moments early on that are worth playing repeatedly, and take cinematic gaming to a whole new level. In particular, Derrick's hallucinations as he mutates are imaginative and eerie. Unfortunately, all of these moments are frontloaded, and there are few such bits as you near the finale.

Speaking of the finale, here's where a great games settles with just being good. It's as though the designers got tired of all the work it must have taken to make the first half of the game so brilliant, and just cobbled together the remaining portion. What's more, you have to go through one large area twice! Nothing changes, it's essentially just the same as it was the first time you experienced it. It's every bit as disappointing as it sounds, and will probably threaten to break the will of many players. It doesn't help that it's the worst part of the game in the first place, as the alien dimension stages are visually unappealing, repetitive, and downright frustrating. The game tries to transform itself into a first-person platformer here, and it's ill-advised.

I've been an avid gamer for over ten years, and I've never seen a game with such potential fall short of greatness by a mere hand's breadth, but that's exactly what "Breakdown" does. The initial game is brilliantly executed, and promises an experience that is not delivered when it's all said and done. Even so, there's nothing out there quite like "Breakdown," and I recommend it highly despite its shortcomings. After all, those shortcomings are only as disappointing as they are because the game is otherwise such a joy to experience. Don't overlook this one.

Final Score: A-

it is the best game i have played

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: May 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

it is the best game in the wrold my frinds like it too.

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