I picked it the other day when it came out. Ive put about 5 hours into the game so far. Overall, I dont like it. Heres what I think of it so far.
Graphics, at times they are down right beautiful and at other times looks pretty bad. The animation for when you do normal attacks and basic things is really bad, but when you do special moves or spells it looks fantastic. The spells and special moves are by far the coolest looking thing in the game so far.
Sound, its good, I dont care for the new characters voice overs too much but it works. Gandof being the narrator is cool. One thing weird though is that this game plays espeically loud when you put it in and are forced to lower the volume to adjust to it otherwise its just too loud.
Controls are ok, but the camera pisses me off to no end. Its very very sensative, like you tap the analog stick and it whips around. The battle system is pretty straight forward and easy to understand for pretty much anyone.
The story itself seems intriguing to some extent but at the sametime you keep thinking, this would be so badass if I was the actual fellowship group. It is as linear as can be with no explorering nearly. You dont buy/sell items either, everything you get from treasure chest or from enemies you kill. So it cuts out the whole saving cash for xxxx item which is nice and moves the game along better.
It is a decent game, just I myself can not get into it. I knew what to expect going into it (linear and easy rpg) but it just didnt really draw me in, and the camera really really kept distracting me a lot. That is my single biggest gripe is that camera.
Any questions I will try and answer best I can. I bought it for the Xbox if that matters as well.
Kao
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