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| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
New (14) Used (15) from £10.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  77 reviews
Sales Rank: 607
Platform: Playstation 3
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3307210266620
ASIN: B000SKEXNW
Release Date: May 23, 2008
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Demo thoughts... May 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have just finished playing the co-op and single player demo both of which are the same. I hate to jusdge it before the game is released, but what does necter do exactly... please comment back, but it just seems to be a fancy thermal vision gimic. If this is a section of the game that free radical beleve to be tantalizing for us then that dos not fair well. I shall wait and see informed reviews.
 Terrible demo May 18, 2008
4 out of 13 found this review helpful
Maybe this could've received an award in the '90s. The PS could've run this gameplay, but it would've only taken a PS2 to get the graphics to this current standard.
The controls are an amateur mistake and the nectar game mechanic is a tedious gimmick that is just annoying and pointless.
Stop buying rubbish games and maybe they'll realise they should be making better ones. I'm shocked Free Radical let this out of the door.
 gamer May 17, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
ok the demo was great but it was abit hit or miss
i think it would be better without this whole nector thing.
i would say buy it but dont put your hopes up to much
 Disappointing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, May 11, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is one of the reaons I bought a PS3 (I already own a 360.) But having played the demo, I am truly unimpressed. The graphics are poor to say the least and the gameplay provides no innovation whatsoever. And before you say "Oh yeah!?? What about Necatr?" Quite frankly, it's a gimic, not a game saving feature. Let's just hope that the demo is merely a taster of the true identity of this game..........
Mutton-dressed-as-lamb shooter finally lands on the PS3 with a squelch May 8, 2008
- Intro -
Despite my cautiously optimistic review of the 4-player coop demo, my final assessment of this game is that it's a disaster.
- Graphics -
They say 'pride comes before a fall', and this turn of phrase fits particularly well with regard to the graphics engine. Rather than licensing a modern engine from Epic or Valve, they appear to have stuck to the proprietary engine they developed for TimeSplitters, an engine that in the intervening time has had a slew of modern must-have effects bolted on in an attempt to keep it up to date. The result is spectacularly unconvincing.
For example, volumetric lighting has been used to simulate the glare from the sun piercing the apertures of solid walls and roofs. However, the core lighting model isn't inherently volumetric, so there's actually very little contrast between surfaces when indoors. Also there are some dynamic shadows, but no dynamic lighting to speak of. You will find moments when it is impossible to see important features such as stair wells because you're staring into the pitch black without any kind of active light source to assist you. Textures are trilinear-filtered, but aren't bump mapped and look decidedly 16-bit. Is that old-school Gouraud shading on the mantis troopers' armor? Nasty.
- Sound -
The voice acting is so bad I'm almost sure it's on purpose. Your mantis team mates are portrayed from the very start as these one dimensional yokel stereotypes who romp around South America committing one war crime after another. They repeat the same stock phrases over and over again, and either indicate that the developers know very little about real US soldiers, or serve as revenge for Hollywood's casting of Dick van Dyke as the cockney chimney sweep in Mary Poppins.
- Gameplay -
This game so desperately wants to be Halo at times, and falls short of the mark considerably. The weapons are lack luster at best, and laughable at their worst (check the flamethrower). Most of the level design is so bland that it is only perseverance that gets you through to the next section. In addition to this, the game AI is so poor it's embarrassing.
- Summary -
This game does not meet any of the reasonable expectations of this generation of consoles. It fails to exploit any of the PS3's unique technical features, and is therefore only a "PS3 exclusive" in that it is not available on other platforms. It would never have been released to market otherwise.
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