Too Human

Hmmm....Where to begin... I know I'll start with why i own this piece of shite in the first place.

After a average day at work i decided to pop into Game and see what was available, after browsing the shelves for a few minutes i decided to ask the assistant if he could recommend any fun RPG's, after a few moments of him listing games i've already played, completed and probably sold back to him he suggested this game for the price of £8. So i thought...fuck it, it's only £8 and it's been out for quite some time so it can't be that shit compared to some of the other games here...(I'm looking at you Two Worlds II, how the fuck that game is selling for £35 pre-owned  i don't bloody know)

So i got home and put the disc into my xbox and loaded the game up and played it for about an two hours before i took the game out and put it back into it's case and decided to do something more productive with my time....like go on facebook.

Sooo lets move on to the game itself... From the small amount of time i cared it would seem that the story is about a war between machines and humans and its all very sci-fi. You play as Baldur a cybernetically enhanced super solider (why is it that when we are under threat of being wiped out by machines, we turn to another machine for help) who the public see as a god......no fucking idea why, i guess i didn't play that far in to find out.

The game starts with a cutscene of Baldur and a several squads of soliders getting into an APC and making their way to some sort of temple where everyone gets out and enters. At this point it took me several moments to realise that the cutscene has ended and i'm supposed to take control as theres no indication that the cutscene ended.

At first the gameplay style seems to resemble that of most third person RPG's, left joystick for moving around and right joystick for awkwardly swinging your sword....wait.. what?? This isn't right, the right joystick is supposed to be used for controling your view point like most other third person games not for attacking....this must be part of some indepth combat system i am yet to discover i thought......so when the first wave of evil machines arrived i charged at them with my sword and tear them apart robotic limb from limb.

It is safe to say i fought very bravely and died very quickly to which i was rewarded with a long and unskippable death scene, which will quickly get annoying.

So after finding my next batch of evil robots i decided to hang back and take them out from a distance with my dual pistols......wait how do i aim on this thing, ah the left bumber, this must be used to lock on to enemies and so it was and the first enemy died in a matter of seconds...a few moments afterwards the horde of evil robotic minons had reached me and proceeded to claw my face off because i couldn't change target as my aim was forever locked onto the minion i had already killed and then i was rewarded with the same long and unskippable death scene again.

I did manage to play through this game and complete the first level but then i gave up, i just couldn't be fucked with having to put up with these awkard controls which is a shame really because this game did have the potential to be an average game with an average story that would of killed a few hours at best...nothing truly amazing but fun to play anyway. Instead because of the awful control system it isn't fun to play and is a pile of shit.....and furthermore a waste of £8.