http://www.philhuang.com/2005/09/15/advent-rising/ Personal Website of Philip Huang Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:12:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.philhuang.com/2005/09/15/advent-rising/#comment-149 Adam Williams Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:29:05 +0000 http://www.philhuang.com/?p=87#comment-149 HECK YEA! Those glitches sucked but at least for most of them just tapping the back button to goto first person mode and tapping again to leave it fixed any camera angle problems you're having. As long as they tweak the jumping a tad and fix the camera glitches I'd say this game has an extremely solid chance at making a great trilogy. I mean come on who the crap can beat Orson Scott Card as a writer for the story?! For nothing else I want to play out the trilogy to just know the story, that's how good it is! The things the game creators make your character go through somewhat traumatize you (choice of who dies scene), so that puts the entire game on another level. I've not been so attached to a character from a game since Aeris from FF7. Now I'm not exactly one of those that cried when she dies but that same level of character involvement starts to get at you during Advent. Due to a slow start some gamers might stick it out but the game makes it worthwhile! Slow-mo jump dodging while stealing an enemy's weapon from their very hands with your right hand then blasting them in the fact with your left! NOTHING BEATS THAT! Except maybe freezing one guy amidst a mass of people then detonating him! OR! Slowing down time and breaking an alien's neck or shoving your foot in it's mouth and breaking it's jaw! OR walking up to a giant mech shooting cannon fire at you with a spherical shield protecting you and then casually pulling a rocket launcher on it! OR! doing a slow-mo matrix style flip from hanging off of a ledge into the air where you throw exploding ice flechetes out into a group of baddies! The entire game oozes a John Woo meets Star Wars with a dash of The Matrix! BUY IT! BUY IT NOW AND MAKE IT SUCCESFULL SO THAT WE CAN HAVE TWO MORE LOVELY GAMES LIKE IT!!! HECK YEA! Those glitches sucked but at least for most of them just tapping the back button to goto first person mode and tapping again to leave it fixed any camera angle problems you’re having. As long as they tweak the jumping a tad and fix the camera glitches I’d say this game has an extremely solid chance at making a great trilogy. I mean come on who the crap can beat Orson Scott Card as a writer for the story?! For nothing else I want to play out the trilogy to just know the story, that’s how good it is! The things the game creators make your character go through somewhat traumatize you (choice of who dies scene), so that puts the entire game on another level. I’ve not been so attached to a character from a game since Aeris from FF7. Now I’m not exactly one of those that cried when she dies but that same level of character involvement starts to get at you during Advent. Due to a slow start some gamers might stick it out but the game makes it worthwhile! Slow-mo jump dodging while stealing an enemy’s weapon from their very hands with your right hand then blasting them in the fact with your left! NOTHING BEATS THAT! Except maybe freezing one guy amidst a mass of people then detonating him! OR! Slowing down time and breaking an alien’s neck or shoving your foot in it’s mouth and breaking it’s jaw! OR walking up to a giant mech shooting cannon fire at you with a spherical shield protecting you and then casually pulling a rocket launcher on it! OR! doing a slow-mo matrix style flip from hanging off of a ledge into the air where you throw exploding ice flechetes out into a group of baddies! The entire game oozes a John Woo meets Star Wars with a dash of The Matrix! BUY IT! BUY IT NOW AND MAKE IT SUCCESFULL SO THAT WE CAN HAVE TWO MORE LOVELY GAMES LIKE IT!!!

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