Posted on: April 21, 2019

Lusty101

Игр: 1018 Отзывов: 19

REVIEW, What Could of Been.....

I review this game on the experience I had while playing this game, I am in no way a professional gamer but rather just like the rest of the gaming community a gamer who plays for fun/challenge/entertainment and just want a good well developed game to be lost in for the time we can play games. I am not being paid to review this game and do it to hopefully help people like me who are thinking of buying the game but want to understand what they may experience before making the purchase. As you do not get much characters to input into a review I rated below out of 10 to give somewhat of a short guide which I intended to have my reasons for such score but again limit to 2000 characters is restrictive and surprising as I can't fully provide my reasons as to why I rate it the way I did so use it as a guide only and is from my own experience of playing game. FUN - 5/10 - only saved by powers and story line otherwise 0 STORY - 10/10 - very well done CUSTOMISATION OF CHARACTER - 0/10 - as doesn't exist CONTROLS - 6/10 - good but some flaws but can work with it IN GAME SOUNDS - 2/10 - just terrible MUSIC - 7/10 - not higher as music was so loud when cut scenes were on GAME VOICING FOR CHARACTERS - 5/10 - average GRAPHICS AND RESOLUTION - 0/10 - extremely terrible even for a 2005 game, cut scenes were higher quality video as per that time frame trend MAP & OBJECTIVES - 0/10 - no map and no short cut key for objectives SPECIAL POWERS - 10/10 - major fun but came too late in game for me SAVING - 0/10 - no saving function, old school checkpoints, some too close, some too far away from each other CHARACTER BONDING - 0/10 - non existent MY OPINION TO PLAY OR NOT - play for story & powers but don't expect much else

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Posted on: November 19, 2010

Verbatimlover

Игр: 20 Отзывов: 2

This flawed game is well worth 5.99

This game was bound to not succeed when the creators planned it as a trilogy. The story feels epic and presents interesting characters with a slice of sci-fi cheese but being the the first in a planned trilogy forces it to spend time creating plot-lines that wont be explained in this installment. The game-play is just ok but rarely impresses, Basic 3rd person shooter with quirky PC controls. The game will surprise you sometimes for good or bad. i would have bought the sequel had the series survived.

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Posted on: December 22, 2015

Dohi64

Владелец игры

Игр: 425 Отзывов: 58

fun alien-shooting action

not sure how involved card (ender's game, etc.) was during development but the result is a somewhat generic (early-2000 xbox, you know what to expect) but still enjoyable sci-fi shooter. good enough story that ends on a cliffhanger never to be resolved, as it was planned as a trilogy but sales didn't let it happen. there's an unofficial patch if you want fancier-looking cutscenes, including some only available on xbox.

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Posted on: April 2, 2010

Prator

Владелец игры

Игр: 206 Отзывов: 29

A very nice game.

Advent Rising, is, as advertised, a third person shooter/action game with a plot written and directed by Orson Scott Card. You can tell it's written by Orson Scott Card, because themes involving divinity and insult wordplay come up a lot. The gameplay is generally pretty good, and while the game has its flaws, it's definitely worth a look if you're a Card fan or if you like this genre of games. STORY 4/5: Unfortunately, Advent Rising was supposed to be one of those franchise-starting games, and ends on an explicit "To Be Continued" (when I say explicit, I mean it. The words "To Be Continued" will flash up on your screen.). However, besides the blatant cliffhanger, the story of the game is pretty good. In a nutshell, you're Gideon Wyath, a space marine and pilot who is selected to be part of a diplomatic mission to meet with the first alien race humanity has come into contact with after spreading to many worlds and resolving a civil war with its own colonies. The new race seems friendly, to the point of being openly worshipful of humanity. Then another race shows up, intent on killing all humans, and things go downhill from there. Generally, the story is delivered by cutscenes which sprout up at irregular intervals during the game, and every level has at least three story chunks in it. Sometimes the gap between the cutscenes and the gameplay can be a little jarring, but it's generally pretty good. However, due to the aforementioned lack of sequels, there are some plot-points introduced in the cutscenes that are never really explained at any point in the game. GAMEPLAY 4/5: When you're not watching a cutscene, you're usually either shooting things or driving some kind of vehicle around and trying not to get blown up. The action never lets up, which might be a good thing or not, depending on your perspective. After a little practice, all of your guns and powers are fairly easy to use, because they all work in roughly the same way: you target, and then right or left click to fire. You can also switch into First-Person mode if you want to hit distant targets or just play a style of game you're more familiar with, but in close quarters auto-aiming is usually faster. All weapons and powers have a leveling system that makes them more effective and/or develop further abilities as you use them, giving you an incentive to specialize. That said, by the time you learn to lift and throw things with your mind, guns are almost useless. This game does have a difficulty curve, but for some reason it slopes DOWNWARDS. Your enemies do not get substantially more powerful as the game goes on, but you learn more and more special abilities and level up the abilities you already have. Basically, the game is a non-stop xeno slaughterfest after the first few levels, particularly because, after you learn telekinesis, you also gain the ability to completely regenerate your health as long as no one shoots you for about ten seconds. Your foes do become more numerous, true, but their weapons aren't any tougher and just learn more ways to kill them. SOUNDS 4/5: The music is very good (epic chords and latin chanting FTW!), but it's limited. There's a few different fighting tracks, a few ambient tracks, and that's all. Occasionally the music gets drowned out by ambient noise, especially when you're driving any kind of vehicle. Turning down the ambient noise also makes it hard to hear anyone talking. Voice acting is generally pretty good, so not being able to hear it is annoying. VISUALS 5/5: This game is quite shiny for the time it was made. The aliens you encounter generally do look fairly alien, and their ships even more so. Generally speaking, there is nothing in this game that I would describe as badly designed, visually, and in particular the hand-to-hand combat fatality animations are pretty cool. Although, for some reason, all the humans have unnaturally long legs, but you get used to that. OVERALL 4/5: My two biggest complaints about this game are that it is too short and the plot remains unfinished. Having finished it, I would like to play some more of it, and that should tell you something about its quality.

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Posted on: May 15, 2025

FlameStrike-AWT

Владелец игры

Игр: 885 Отзывов: 3

Needs work, but not TOO bad.

This had an interesting idea and the story was good. However, the controls are awkward at the best of times, and much of what needs to be done is never explained. Combined with a checkpoint system that can save once and still leave you with things you must accomplish before being allowed to progress, this can be an incredible frustrating and maddening game. Difficulty spikes at the end of the game are more vertical difficulty cliff walls. Not worth it, overall.

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