Praising a travesty first
Fable II - This game is just awesome, for fans of the very first one you get similar spells, attacks, quests, but in this iteration of such a GREAT series you get a little dog companion tagging along helping you locate treasure. It acts as a great plot device and the AI is just sooooooooooooooooooooo intuitive and well put together. You will want to make sure you heal your dog whenever he whimpers about pain just to make sure he doesn't have to drag his injured carcass around the incredibly immersive world, after you.
And did i mention the life simulation? This part is really awesome. Basically, you can get a job, raise a family, buy a house, get her pregnant. Finally they've created the Sims within a medieval setting. Now you don't have to leave your house in order to work!
Peter Molyneux truly is the god of gaming, as he hints (more like states) in almost every interview he gives. He's truly revolutionized the genre of Action RPG's and I for one am DEEPLY looking forward to Fable III, IV, V and VI!
Shaun's Rating 9/10
Now the hating a favourite game
So, what is all the deal about Final Fantasy VII?
It's just an awful game. The plot is pants-on-head-retarded (thank you, Yahtzee).
So, Cloud a very distasteful fellow with a sordid past (don't they always have that?) ex-mercenary of some branch of some great corporation defects to a vigilante group called Avalanche. They go about blowing up reactors in sectors of a plate that sits above millions of Citizens in order to stop Shin-Ra from stealing the lifeforce of the planet.
The organization responds to these attacks by blowing up plate sectors, and dropping them onto civillians beneath.
This, in effect kills all the people below the plates, and some above. This to me seems very hypocritical of Avalanche as theior actions lead to the slaughter of many innocent people that weren't caught up in the row between them.
They later, leave the city, in order to pursue some dark character related to a failed genetic experiment involving an alien parasite known as the "The Calamity from the Skies".
They chase this Sephiroth character around the world, inadvertently getting many more innocent people killed from their little dispute about the world's resources, before Mr Sephiroth decides to destroy the planet by summoning a huge meteor (because apparently people can do that). Anyway, turns out that Sephiroth isn't Sephiroth!
He's a clone of the original "Sephy" created by The Calamity to do her/his/its bidding? I should point out that Jenova as depicted in an image in the game appears to have a penis and breasts, so we'll go with it being an hermaphrodite. Anyway, this hermaphrodite starts distributing it's body parts around the world and calling it's subjects to a great calling in order to complete some great ritual for Sephiroth to become one with the planet.
It goes on and on and the plot just gets more convoluded and retarded.
I'll stop there.
The gameplay is fairly straightforward and average by today's standards of RPG's.
I went into this game hoping for an action RPG, cause i'm a hack and slash fan and found waiting ten seconds in order to make my next move boring and tedious. This game requires much patience. The only slightly interesting battle element is the inclusion of these shiny rocks you can find everywhere called materia. Only the most powerful ones are found lying on the floor in some backwater little village or dungeon, slowly rotting away til some lucky traveller or perhaps the town drunk discovers their treasures.
Anyway, these materia however contain spells and as you level up your characters, these spells go up in level and reproduce by having rock-sex in order to create another one. They produce assexually, so I guess nearly everything in this game is hermaphroditic.
The graphics are simply awful, you'd be better to go play Star Ocean on 360 or Eternal Sonata on PS3. The sound quality is probably the most decent thing about the entire game, and I'd advise any great RPG fan to steer clear of this one LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!.
Shaun's rating... 2/10
Fable II - This game is just awesome, for fans of the very first one you get similar spells, attacks, quests, but in this iteration of such a GREAT series you get a little dog companion tagging along helping you locate treasure. It acts as a great plot device and the AI is just sooooooooooooooooooooo intuitive and well put together. You will want to make sure you heal your dog whenever he whimpers about pain just to make sure he doesn't have to drag his injured carcass around the incredibly immersive world, after you.
And did i mention the life simulation? This part is really awesome. Basically, you can get a job, raise a family, buy a house, get her pregnant. Finally they've created the Sims within a medieval setting. Now you don't have to leave your house in order to work!
Peter Molyneux truly is the god of gaming, as he hints (more like states) in almost every interview he gives. He's truly revolutionized the genre of Action RPG's and I for one am DEEPLY looking forward to Fable III, IV, V and VI!
Shaun's Rating 9/10
Now the hating a favourite game
So, what is all the deal about Final Fantasy VII?
It's just an awful game. The plot is pants-on-head-retarded (thank you, Yahtzee).
So, Cloud a very distasteful fellow with a sordid past (don't they always have that?) ex-mercenary of some branch of some great corporation defects to a vigilante group called Avalanche. They go about blowing up reactors in sectors of a plate that sits above millions of Citizens in order to stop Shin-Ra from stealing the lifeforce of the planet.
The organization responds to these attacks by blowing up plate sectors, and dropping them onto civillians beneath.
This, in effect kills all the people below the plates, and some above. This to me seems very hypocritical of Avalanche as theior actions lead to the slaughter of many innocent people that weren't caught up in the row between them.
They later, leave the city, in order to pursue some dark character related to a failed genetic experiment involving an alien parasite known as the "The Calamity from the Skies".
They chase this Sephiroth character around the world, inadvertently getting many more innocent people killed from their little dispute about the world's resources, before Mr Sephiroth decides to destroy the planet by summoning a huge meteor (because apparently people can do that). Anyway, turns out that Sephiroth isn't Sephiroth!
He's a clone of the original "Sephy" created by The Calamity to do her/his/its bidding? I should point out that Jenova as depicted in an image in the game appears to have a penis and breasts, so we'll go with it being an hermaphrodite. Anyway, this hermaphrodite starts distributing it's body parts around the world and calling it's subjects to a great calling in order to complete some great ritual for Sephiroth to become one with the planet.
It goes on and on and the plot just gets more convoluded and retarded.
I'll stop there.
The gameplay is fairly straightforward and average by today's standards of RPG's.
I went into this game hoping for an action RPG, cause i'm a hack and slash fan and found waiting ten seconds in order to make my next move boring and tedious. This game requires much patience. The only slightly interesting battle element is the inclusion of these shiny rocks you can find everywhere called materia. Only the most powerful ones are found lying on the floor in some backwater little village or dungeon, slowly rotting away til some lucky traveller or perhaps the town drunk discovers their treasures.
Anyway, these materia however contain spells and as you level up your characters, these spells go up in level and reproduce by having rock-sex in order to create another one. They produce assexually, so I guess nearly everything in this game is hermaphroditic.
The graphics are simply awful, you'd be better to go play Star Ocean on 360 or Eternal Sonata on PS3. The sound quality is probably the most decent thing about the entire game, and I'd advise any great RPG fan to steer clear of this one LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!.
Shaun's rating... 2/10
