Post by Gront on Apr 5, 2012 5:09:25 GMT -5
I don't know about you guys, but I friggin' love Steam. Awesome sales, cloud save data (on a lot of games), and the ability to install games on any computer I want; what more could you want? Thanks to the fact that Steam keeps track of all the games I have ever purchased on it, though, I have a fuckton of games (thanks in no small part to the Humble Indie Bundles), and what better to do with a fuckton of games than to share my opinions on them with all of you?
I suppose I'll do this alphabetically, simply because it'll make it really easy to tell which games I've done that way. First up, therefore is:
Name: Advent Rising
Genre: Action/Third Person Shooter
Developer: GlyphX Games
Publisher: Majesco
Release Date: May 31, 2005
Approximate purchase date: Literally release day when it came out on the Xbox. Got it on Steam sometime last year.
Current Steam Price: $9.99
It's really hard to be objective with games that were as big of a part of my adolescence as Advent Rising was. This was, bar none, my favorite game for the original Xbox. Looking back, I can kind of see why, though I can now also see a lot of the things that caused this game to get average reviews and a lot of complaints. I don't recall ever running into any massive glitches while playing this on my Xbox, but I'm beginning to think that was either good luck or bad memory, since this game has crashed twice in the 6.4 hours I've apparently played it, and from what I understand, the PC version fixed a lot of the problems inherent in the Xbox version. Putting that aside (as it is not entirely out of the question that the crashes were a result of my hardware and not the game itself), Advent Rising was a pretty good game that sadly lacked the polish that could have made it a great game. As I mentioned in my bargain bin gaming thread, the Advent series could have become what the Mass Effect series is today, but a whole console generation earlier. Advent had planned an amazing sci-fi storyline in which decisions you made in the first game would carry into other games (though admittedly on a much smaller scale than Mass Effect would later use), with some graphics that were amazing at the time and just a hint of RPG. The controls were really different, with the Xbox version utilizing a flick-targeting system that made it really easy to shoot at the bad guys while leaping around the room like you were in the Matrix. As a result, I couldn't play using my mouse and keyboard; it just made me sad, so I had to bust out my controller for this one, as much as I resisted it (my controller is a pain to set up sometimes). I do think that the PC controls were solid enough to be used if you don't have some memory attached to this game like I did, so if you don't have a controller, that isn't a dealbreaker in the slightest. Overall, I'd most certainly recommend this game to anyone who loves a solid sci-fi adventure.
GRENT APPROVED, RECOMMENDED FOR PURCHASE
I suppose I'll do this alphabetically, simply because it'll make it really easy to tell which games I've done that way. First up, therefore is:
Name: Advent Rising
Genre: Action/Third Person Shooter
Developer: GlyphX Games
Publisher: Majesco
Release Date: May 31, 2005
Approximate purchase date: Literally release day when it came out on the Xbox. Got it on Steam sometime last year.
Current Steam Price: $9.99
It's really hard to be objective with games that were as big of a part of my adolescence as Advent Rising was. This was, bar none, my favorite game for the original Xbox. Looking back, I can kind of see why, though I can now also see a lot of the things that caused this game to get average reviews and a lot of complaints. I don't recall ever running into any massive glitches while playing this on my Xbox, but I'm beginning to think that was either good luck or bad memory, since this game has crashed twice in the 6.4 hours I've apparently played it, and from what I understand, the PC version fixed a lot of the problems inherent in the Xbox version. Putting that aside (as it is not entirely out of the question that the crashes were a result of my hardware and not the game itself), Advent Rising was a pretty good game that sadly lacked the polish that could have made it a great game. As I mentioned in my bargain bin gaming thread, the Advent series could have become what the Mass Effect series is today, but a whole console generation earlier. Advent had planned an amazing sci-fi storyline in which decisions you made in the first game would carry into other games (though admittedly on a much smaller scale than Mass Effect would later use), with some graphics that were amazing at the time and just a hint of RPG. The controls were really different, with the Xbox version utilizing a flick-targeting system that made it really easy to shoot at the bad guys while leaping around the room like you were in the Matrix. As a result, I couldn't play using my mouse and keyboard; it just made me sad, so I had to bust out my controller for this one, as much as I resisted it (my controller is a pain to set up sometimes). I do think that the PC controls were solid enough to be used if you don't have some memory attached to this game like I did, so if you don't have a controller, that isn't a dealbreaker in the slightest. Overall, I'd most certainly recommend this game to anyone who loves a solid sci-fi adventure.
GRENT APPROVED, RECOMMENDED FOR PURCHASE
