picked this one up yesterday at Circuit City for $20
Now granted, I've yet to play this on the full-size TV, so I'm willing to cut them some slack on the graphical presentation due to being played on the LCD screen -- but just about everything else is horrible!
The voice actors give the impression they have no experience with actual voice acting work -- because the deliveries of the performances come off very stilted.
this is especially disturbing considering the voice actors replacing Buffy and Willow's regular actors are probably professional voice actors -- meaning there's no excuse for them to sound this bad.
For some deranged reason, the block button was designed with the controller s in mind with absolutely no ability to change it. This means that on the normal original xbox controller you have to reach an abnormally high motion{in relation to the rest of the combat layout} to access block during combat -- rendering it useless.
The combat itself is very button mash happy and the camera is very unfriendly so even if tactical moves
could come into play, you wouldn't be able to see what you're aiming at.
The inventory is permanently attached to the directional pad, and you have to scroll through during real time to get what you want -- which is disastrous during combat as it gives the enemies plenty offree hits
also, whatever weapon you're holding can be knocked out of your hand and because of the bad camera, it can be difficult to see where to retrieve it from.
I found myself circling the walls repeatedly hitting the item interaction button just to see what can be interacted with -- and actually ended up picking up stuff I didn't know was there! {Yes, another camera issue}
In fact, I had defeated the first part of the game without knowing it because the key which was supposed to open the door to the next area was on the floor {dropped by a defeated vampire} and I was only able to find out about this by checking gamefaqs out of frustration and then manually running the camera with the right stick to an overhead view through every room I had been through previously.
So far, I've completed one mission and gotten to the first save point. This is a horrible game. I'm very grateful I didn't pay the $50 actually marked on the box for it. As a huge Buffy fan, I'll finish it for the lost episode story, but I don't expect to enjoy any of it beyond the storyline.
In fact, after playing this bomb, I'm kinda teetering on whether to pick up the first xbox Buffy at all even though I do really want to see the story.
Fair warning people: if you're not a hard-core Buffy fan, you're going to hate this -- and even then you still might
Now granted, I've yet to play this on the full-size TV, so I'm willing to cut them some slack on the graphical presentation due to being played on the LCD screen -- but just about everything else is horrible!
The voice actors give the impression they have no experience with actual voice acting work -- because the deliveries of the performances come off very stilted.
this is especially disturbing considering the voice actors replacing Buffy and Willow's regular actors are probably professional voice actors -- meaning there's no excuse for them to sound this bad.
For some deranged reason, the block button was designed with the controller s in mind with absolutely no ability to change it. This means that on the normal original xbox controller you have to reach an abnormally high motion{in relation to the rest of the combat layout} to access block during combat -- rendering it useless.
The combat itself is very button mash happy and the camera is very unfriendly so even if tactical moves
could come into play, you wouldn't be able to see what you're aiming at.
The inventory is permanently attached to the directional pad, and you have to scroll through during real time to get what you want -- which is disastrous during combat as it gives the enemies plenty offree hits
also, whatever weapon you're holding can be knocked out of your hand and because of the bad camera, it can be difficult to see where to retrieve it from.
I found myself circling the walls repeatedly hitting the item interaction button just to see what can be interacted with -- and actually ended up picking up stuff I didn't know was there! {Yes, another camera issue}
In fact, I had defeated the first part of the game without knowing it because the key which was supposed to open the door to the next area was on the floor {dropped by a defeated vampire} and I was only able to find out about this by checking gamefaqs out of frustration and then manually running the camera with the right stick to an overhead view through every room I had been through previously.
So far, I've completed one mission and gotten to the first save point. This is a horrible game. I'm very grateful I didn't pay the $50 actually marked on the box for it. As a huge Buffy fan, I'll finish it for the lost episode story, but I don't expect to enjoy any of it beyond the storyline.
In fact, after playing this bomb, I'm kinda teetering on whether to pick up the first xbox Buffy at all even though I do really want to see the story.
Fair warning people: if you're not a hard-core Buffy fan, you're going to hate this -- and even then you still might