Low Gimmickry
HIGH The final battle, which put together Boyd's powers in an interesting way.
LOW The perfunctory final dungeon.
WTF Wait, so I'm the cat now?
HIGH The final battle, which put together Boyd's powers in an interesting way.
LOW The perfunctory final dungeon.
WTF Wait, so I'm the cat now?
HIGH The sense of style is pitch perfect throughout.
LOW No online co-op.
WTF There's no way in hell that Skullmageddon earned his helicopter pilot's license.
HIGH RoboDragon!
LOW Unskippable cutscenes in a game meant to be oft-replayed.
WTF A giant tank? Thank god I trained for this!
HIGH Rayne's animation is easy on the eyes.
LOW Everything else.
WTF Vampire bites make people… explode?
HIGH Dying on a boss near the end of the game, causing me to actually wake up and focus..
LOW Encountering a defect in the evolution system that blocked my progress and caused me to give up on it.
WTF Seriously, if you max out the xp on a form, you can no longer unlock any forms that branch from it? What sense does that make?!
HIGH The theme song in the Treehouse Grotto.
LOW The late-game money fetch quest that sticks out as padded play time.
WTF Why is the giant rabbit named Lobster?
Stylish and stylized, Aeon Flux is one of the more unusual additions to the Basement since it's an extremely rare animal—a licensed game that succeeds thanks to developers who took the time to understand their subject before crafting a gameplay experience that's the perfect interactive extension of the characters and world it's based on.
The main thing I have to say about is that it pains me greatly to give it such a low score. The artwork is saccharine-cute, I love the offbeat concept, and the price is right-but, it's just too shallow and too repetitive to rate any higher. I hate to admit it (and I looked hard for reasons to give it a bigger number) but I couldn't do it.
According to ESRB, this game contains: Alcohol Reference
People throw around the term "worst game ever made" pretty frequently these days. So when word began to spread about the legendary, almost apocalyptic, badness of Jaws Unleashed I knew that as someone who specializes in reviewing unbelievably bad games, I was going to have to give it a try. I mean, even the title is ridiculous! How on earth would you leash a shark in the first place? They don't have necks! And what did I find by playing it? That although Jaws Unleashed is a game with massive, crippling design flaws, it's by no means the worst game I've ever played.
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