[quote name='Blaster man']Don't buy this.
http://www.ripten.com/2013/01/08/ripten-review-anarchy-reigns-360/
Here’s the Rundown:
+ Steve Blum and Jon Curry deliver strong performances
- Glitches and hit detection problems
- Shallow combat
- Broken matchmaking
- Story makes no sense, possibly due to lazy localization
- Forced grinding
- Some characters seem to be “borrowed” from other games
- Racist content[/QUOTE]
I read that review several hours ago and found it pretty funny.
I never had an issue with hit detection and I completed the campaign 3 times.
The combat is "shallow", but it's also meant to be a brawler. Even when you consider that, the game has some depth, since hard mode really requires you to think ahead.
There was probably no one playing, since the game released out of nowhere and had virtually no buzz past costing $29.99 / including Bayonetta.
Story makes sense, it's just not good... huge difference. Jack is asked by Max's daughter to get him back and I believe Jack accepts as a way to justify hunting him down for what he did. The story for Leo is that he was trained by Max and I would assume idolized him, so he wanted to find / clear the name of his idol. Sadly it seems Max went insane at some point and caused all this Anarchy (original name I know... Max (person they're looking for) Anarchy (what he caused)). Sadly most of the finer details aren't shown or in some cases ignored completely, but Platinum Games has proven they can't write a story, which was never a problem in the past...
The game does feature some "forced grinding", but it also lets you have some fun with the world around you and do side missions. I would say it takes MAYBE 20 minutes a level (this is to unlock all the missions) to actually grind out the kills to go to the next area, so not a huge problem either.
Jack, Barron, Mathilda, Big Bull, RinRin are from Madworld and Bayonetta is from Bayonetta. So 6/17 (I think thats the total) are from other games. Also I wouldn't say the Madworld characters were borrowed either, since the game seems to take place after Madworld. (Like Big Bull being nothing more than a
brain) I will admit that the other characters are somewhat generic, though Anarchy Reigns is a crazy over the top game where you have Super Sentai Gargoyles (At the end of the asian hoard mode stage, you fight 5 different colored Gargoyles who land in a formation with an explosion going off in the background.), crazy bar bots that flip you off (another final boss in hoard mode) and many other crazy things...
Black Barron was always racist... they just made him a little edgier. I wouldn't say this is a good thing, but I don't think it's anything to hold against the character either.
Even with all this being said, I don't think Anarchy Reigns is an amazing game, but it's around a 7.