Posted on: September 23, 2008

crazyjimmy

Jeux: 416 Avis: 2

Shogo is fun.

To be fair: I haven't played this game in probably 5 years or more. When I purchased it, I found it for $20 at media play (in a dual-pack with Septerra Core), and, liking Monolith, I decided to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. The game was fun to play all the way through, and the story was entertaining if, sadly, not that memorable. The graphics were pretty good for the time, and delightfully stylized to add a flavor of distictness, and the overall mood of the game was very light. It was fun to play simply to enjoy playing. My favorite moment, though, was when I *accidentally* discovered I could shoot good-guy NPCs in the mother-ship base area. The first time I did it, I panicked and reloaded. The second time, curious, I tried to see what could happen... ...In the game Driver, there's a minigame where the entire point is to live as long as you can while cop cars chase you down. You're outnumbered and out-classed and it's very fun. Effectively, when you kill a good-guy NPC in the non-combat area of Shogo, you trigger a scenario that's exactly like this. Shogo doesn't just stop you from doing something dumb. Instead it demonstrates why this is a bad idea by punishing you appropriately. I loved it. :D If my copy of the game wasn't sitting behind me in my CD wallet, ready to go, I'd buy this in a second. :D

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Posted on: September 24, 2008

Noobert5000

Jeux: 2 Avis: 1

What a surprising find

This was a game i used to play back when i was younger all the time. It was a pinnacle in gaming history for me, and im sure anyone else who picked it up wont be dissapointed either. Im not sure if its the amazing story, thrown in with the great gameplay or what. But this game surely wont let you down.

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Posted on: January 30, 2009

benmhall

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A little glitchy but very fun

Yes, the graphics are dated. Yes, there are audio hiccups, but this is a very fun game. I played it from start to finish. This doesn't often happen. (I typically don't even get through demos.) Much, much fun. A very good $6.

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Posted on: September 3, 2009

Snickersnack

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Jeux: 1146 Avis: 2

A flawed but very fun FPS.

The on foot sections of this game feature some of the cheapest gunplay I've ever played in an fps. The enemy ai is box of rocks stupid but seems to have the ability to wall hack to make up for it. This combined with a strange critical hit damage system, allows the computer to frag you in a single hit before you even see them. Beware, the letters on your quick-load key may wear off. ;) Fortunately, this game oozes charm. Gunplay has a satisfying and distinct feel (same genre but nothing like Quake, Unreal, Src, or Halo engines). Everything is bright and colorfull. Levels are just the right length such that they don't seem to drag on forever. Quality voice acting. Game has multiple paths and endings. The designers had a sense of humor! This game makes me so sad. It has so much potential but seems like it was rushed out the door 6 months too early (to beat Half-Life to market perhaps?). I'd recommend Shogo to FPS buffs with diverse tastes. It's an interesting evolutionary dead end of the genre, formed during the intense experimentation of its early years. Things seem much more formulaic now so I fear we'll never see a unique FPS like Shogo again.

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Posted on: March 11, 2010

Akalabeth

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Not the best but pretty fun

This is an interesting game which I don't think I've seen repeated anywhere else. Basically a game wherein you play either as a foot soldier, or as a pilot of several stories-tall mecha. As a mecha you'll fight other mecha as well as enemy soldiers while out of your mech you'll fight other soldiers, but sometimes mecha as well. And the combat is pretty unforgiving. You can be at full health, and die in an instant because some of the guns are that powerful. So is it a good game? I enjoyed it. The combat is varied with the two modes. They're both point and shoot but the soldier and mecha weapons are quite distinct. The graphics are a little dated of course, the story is a bit hammy, and the action is a little unrealistic style wise but as a whole it works. It's basically an anime game, as much as Oni was from Bungie, and like Oni this game is fairly good. My only real problem with the game is some parts were ridiculously difficult. There's one part where you have to fight some rogue pilot on top of a platform near a helijet and the enemy guy has some ridiculously proportioned gun that can blow you apart in two shots. I tried about a dozen times but couldn't even get close to the guy. Eventually, he either got stuck on terrain or died somehow that wasn't by doing. Basically the game screwed up and I benefitted from it. Later on you fight a mecha while on foot. Man vs Mecha is a bad idea, for the man that is. Like any mecha you really need a platoon of guys to take it down, one on one is more like suicide and the game reflects this as the battle is quite difficult. As is the entire final arc. Though like most games, the final boss battle is ridiculously easy compared to what you have to do to get there. So all in all. Some balance issues I would say. But still a fun game and worth a go. It's not perfect, but for anime-mecha combat there's not much else on the market and it's unique from my experience.

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