Advent Rising
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Video Game Reviews of Advent Rising
Customer Review: Great Game
Summary: 5 Stars
I've read somewhere that this game has twice the story and twice the gameplay as Halo. Now I believe it. It's a great game with a great story by none other than Orson Scott Card. Customer Review: Great story, great game.
Summary: 4 Stars
I just finnished Advent Rising and half to say I am impressed. I bought this over a year ago the first week it came out, played it for a week got bored and deleted it from my hard drive. Well, a few weeks ago I decided to finnish it and that I did. I really got into the story this time and I'm glad I finnished it because the ending is worth it. Advent Rising is not the best game I've played in the genre but it has a wonderful story that you will find in very few games and keeps the action in the game play.I gave it a 4 for the story it tells. Try it and just have fun!Customer Review: This is the best game
Summary: 5 Stars
First off this game has incredable cut scenes and grafics
The story line is one of the best I have ever seen
You make choices in the game
the super powers are the best
the guns are sweet
Customer Review: Advent was an Excellent Game!
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked up Advent Rising a few weeks ago for something a little different than the usual FPS I normally play. What a pleasant surprise it turned out to be. It wasn't what I expected, which was a third-person shooter with some sci-fi elements thrown it, it was more of a "grand adventure" with a lot of nicely done cinematic elements and a great story that left room for you to use your imagination.
A few great things about the game,
The game is action packed from almost the get-go. There are a few training missions
to get you familiar with the movement and used to the camera (which functions about the same as max paynes system). Once you "Meet the Aliens" its pretty much non-stop the entire game through with LOTS of enemies and a lot of challenging environments to play in.
The weapons arrangement is by far one of the coolest for a third person game going. The action is like a refined "Oni" or "Beyond Good and Evil" with the ability to fist fight and jump. You can couple ANY two guns, rocket launchers, pistols or anything together in each hand, makes for fantastic fire fights. As you use a weapon more and more you gain experience that unlocks more accuracy, damage and features for that weapon. A gun that would take a while clip to kill an enemy on level one will kill one in 3 shots on level 5.
Once you start to obtain your "God-Like" powers you at first think they are going to be "Gimmicks" through the game. It couldn't be further from the truth. The powers operate the same as the weapons system, you gain experience through use in a short amount of time. For instance the "Lift" feature on level one seems like a toy, you can pick up characters and toss them around the room. It takes about 20 tosses to kill something. In a level with lots of lava or in open space you can hurl opponents in to the void or in the lava with a quick flick of the wrist. On level 5 you can smash enemies on the walls and kill them quickly or fling objects in the room at them. This is true of all of your powers you acquire through the game. When you first get a talent you think... "Why would I use this?" After gaining a level or two you understand just how destructive and useful your powers are. By the middle of the game guns seem like a waste of time since you are powerful enough to dispatch enemies in dozens of ways just with your hands. I just can't stress how fun the powers are after you "level up" on a couple of them. Think Jedi meets Rambo meets Ninja meets X-Men
The Story is fantastic. It does borrow elements from just about every sci-fi genre, but does so in a way that is sometimes fresh and has some nice originality. The story really does keep you engrossed in the plot and glued... might I even say addicted... to finishing the story. The game has a lot of great animated cut-scenes that are really well done, while leaving some elements to your imagination. It makes you wonder just how important a human life can be.
The music is also a very strong point. It is bold and operatic in nature. The main theme "Great Light" by Charlotte Martin is haunting to say the least. The game has an overall sadness to it that keeps chills running through you every time you hear the score. The music is very dynamic throughout the game and is encoded in high quality Ogg format. Overall it has to be the most involved and beautiful score for a video game I have heard.
There were a couple of negatives that had a little impact on the game, There were a couple of graphic glitches for me when players walked through water every now and then, but it never stopped or interrupted the action, just made things shimmer. The targeting system would sometimes scroll through objects too quickly when fighting bosses. Jumping up to a next platform was sometimes difficult and took several tries.
Other than those three things, it was very enjoyable.
We can only hope a sequel is made to finish up the "Advent Trilogy"
Customer Review: Very disappointing game.
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm an Orson Scott Card fan so I really wanted to like it--but it's just a terrible game. The psychic powers are so overwhelming they feel like cheats. With several of the powers you can clear the entire screen of baddies once every two seconds or so for the entire game so the only way to have fun is to intentionally weaken yourself. The weapons are unsatisfying and a confusing chore to select.
The best thing about the "flick targeting system" is that you can ignore it. The baddies come in Serious Sam type waves to be mowed down by your double guns plus smart-bomb psychic powers, so precise targeting is pretty silly. Navigating your character is frustrating. You can stand next to a platform you're supposed to grab onto and jump many times before your hands latch on to the edge. I died from that and the buggy jump controls more than from fighting the bad guys.
About half the sound effects are flat out missing, so many actions have little impact. Overall the game feels very untested and buggy. The story is kinda cool but VERY lightweight next to Card's novels. The characters maintain their same flippant attitude no matter how many of their own people die around them. If you're used to playing quality FPS games like H-L2, FEAR, Call of Duty, etc you will be disappointed.