Well, I don’t know quite what to think about this one. To be sure, the writing and acting is gonna be worth the price of the game, and there’s no contest that you’ll mostly be enjoying going through the game, so that’s not where the question lies.
What I’m not sure about, though, is gameplay. The God of War clone parts are more competent and pleasant than I expected (although the enemies feel a little too easy in medium difficulty — even for a first level) but the vehicle part felt superfluous and pointless, and the boss fight was really more annoying than anything else. Then, there’s the Overlord/Pikmin bits that seems to take a lot of importance later in the game, and isn’t in the demo at all, so it’s hard to get an idea of how it all really plays. Ah, and it feels a little too linear, but that may be because it’s the beginning of the game (although I’m not so sure — the feeling mostly stems from the fact that it all takes place in narrow corridors through wide open spaces, instead of God of War’s closed kill-rooms, which aren’t conceptually much better but feel more natural). Finally, the graphics would for the most part look better on a standard-definition TV.
And yet I think it’s a buy. Well, probably. Maybe a pool-with-a-couple-friends buy. (I don’t expect much replayability, and I can’t believe the multiplayer mode will have so much legs — but I could be completely wrong on that one.)
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