Elleon
16 Mar 2010, 06:08am
Gameplay:
Repetitious with invisible walls and a very directed course through the game, the whole of the overall gameplay is good, but could have been so much more with a bit of a sandbox approach. It’s wash, rinse and repeat gaming.
~ Gamezone.com
Graphics:
The bar for console gaming is not merely elevated, it is blown into the stratosphere. There are some prototypical effects, but the environments, the characters and the cut scenes are amazing.
~ Gamezone.com
Sound:
Some of the sound bites are well done, some are silly and predictable and the game seems to ebb and flow from solid to silly. The musical score is nice, but very repetitious.
~ Gamezone.com
Difficulty:
Easy-Moderate
Aside from boss battles and an occasional encounter with a ridicuously high level mob comming out of nowhere, everthing else is fairly easy to win, and considering there are no consequences for losing, it's almost entirely irrelvant to have a difficulty level.
Concept:
Graphically stunning with a multi-layered story, FFXIII relies on some tried-and-true combat models. The overall experience is way too linear.
~ Gamezone.com
Great emphasis on the overall experience being way too linear.
Overall:
Final Fantasy XIII is a game that impresses easily – merely looking at this game will have eyes popping and jaws dropping. However, get beyond that and there is a very linear game with many prototypical J-RPG elements in place. While there is some latitude for how battles are fought, for the most part, the game holds the player’s hand and escorts them through this fantastical land that is part fantasy and part sci-fi.
~ Gamezone.com
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I left the review up to gamezone because that those are my generally feelings towards it and simply put, they review it a lot better.
Veterans won't find it amazing, but newcommers will most definentally consider it appealing.
My final score would be 8/10, but with great dissapointment.
Repetitious with invisible walls and a very directed course through the game, the whole of the overall gameplay is good, but could have been so much more with a bit of a sandbox approach. It’s wash, rinse and repeat gaming.
~ Gamezone.com
Graphics:
The bar for console gaming is not merely elevated, it is blown into the stratosphere. There are some prototypical effects, but the environments, the characters and the cut scenes are amazing.
~ Gamezone.com
Sound:
Some of the sound bites are well done, some are silly and predictable and the game seems to ebb and flow from solid to silly. The musical score is nice, but very repetitious.
~ Gamezone.com
Difficulty:
Easy-Moderate
Aside from boss battles and an occasional encounter with a ridicuously high level mob comming out of nowhere, everthing else is fairly easy to win, and considering there are no consequences for losing, it's almost entirely irrelvant to have a difficulty level.
Concept:
Graphically stunning with a multi-layered story, FFXIII relies on some tried-and-true combat models. The overall experience is way too linear.
~ Gamezone.com
Great emphasis on the overall experience being way too linear.
Overall:
Final Fantasy XIII is a game that impresses easily – merely looking at this game will have eyes popping and jaws dropping. However, get beyond that and there is a very linear game with many prototypical J-RPG elements in place. While there is some latitude for how battles are fought, for the most part, the game holds the player’s hand and escorts them through this fantastical land that is part fantasy and part sci-fi.
~ Gamezone.com
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I left the review up to gamezone because that those are my generally feelings towards it and simply put, they review it a lot better.
Veterans won't find it amazing, but newcommers will most definentally consider it appealing.
My final score would be 8/10, but with great dissapointment.