Agreed. Look at the original Goldeneye. The graphics for that are now bad but the game itself is great!
To me a good game is something which has good gameplay and a decent story backing it.
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Agreed. Look at the original Goldeneye. The graphics for that are now bad but the game itself is great!
To me a good game is something which has good gameplay and a decent story backing it.
Honestly I haven't played HS since a few years ago, but this doesn't look good either way. The textures are poor for the most part, the tearing is bad, the facial animation apart from the girl's is average and motion blur is overly done which gives it a rough look.
The only impresive thing imo is when the ship hits the building but tbh it was nothing special.
As for the rest, the combat was limited (may improve in full game?), the movement was sloppy and my biggest problem was the fact that I never felt I could die whenever I was scaling the enviroment which just made it like I was pressing X when prompted.
If this came out 3-4 years ago then it would be impressive, but there has been plenty of similar games since that are a lot better in every area.
When Goldeneye came out it was a great looking game, so what's your point?
Yep I'd agree, but unfortunately imo this game has neither...
Well we can't really judge the full story until experiencing it fully. If it turns out to be bad I'll eat my words and say I was wrong. There's just something about the potential of this game that excites me. I can't put my finger on what that something is.
Good music, responsive combat system (which is enhanced as the game continues and you buy upgrades), fantastic direction (the zoom in after kills and the building that swiped off the wing were brilliant touches), excellent facial expressions + motion capture during cut scenes, intuitive platforming, good voice acting, excellent story premise and a top notch writer would be the main things that have me excited about this
The writer (Alex Garland) has written a couple of excellent modern film screenplays and i hear he's a pretty good novelist.
are you kidding me!!!
i'd take HS beautiful graceful combat over God of War 3 any day of the week!/sits down
are you kidding me!!!
/sits down
I'll give you that HS had a great combat system, but not as good as Bayonetta or Ninja Gaiden. What was wrong with it is that it missed what God of War gets so right; massive set pieces, awesome boss fights, gore, varied and cool enemies, wicked weaponry, gore, an awesome pro(an?)tagonist and did i mention gore?
Heavenly Sword had a good combat mechanic, but not as good as Ninja Gaiden or Bayonetta and lacked everything else that allowed God of War get away with its somewhat clunky combat. If i wanted a good combat system i'd go for the other two, if i wanted an epic adventure i'd get God of War, where does that leave HS? Meh-town.
Was keeping an eye on this one but the demo was awful, just awful. The worst kind of hand-holding console gameplay, I couldn't, no matter how hard I tried jump to my death or get one of the robots to kill me. It's the video game equivalent of painting by numbers.
Scratched it from my list.
Scratched it from my list.
Caporegime
It is basically the tutorial, how many games do you know that try to kill you in the tutorial?
You do realized it's only the tutorial level? One of the Eurogamer previews said it was actually quite a punishing game at times.
It's insulting that this game has a tutorial in the first place 
but yes, maybe I'm being rash to dismiss it so soon, but it just strikes me that it's going to be like that all the way through, the mindless platforming bits where you just press a button to jump to the next designated handhold, mindless button mashing combat, that horrible camera switching positions when you least expect it.
All I can say is that the demo, for me, has done the exact opposite of what it was meant to do. I was sold on the game from what I'd seen before I played it
but yes, maybe I'm being rash to dismiss it so soon, but it just strikes me that it's going to be like that all the way through, the mindless platforming bits where you just press a button to jump to the next designated handhold, mindless button mashing combat, that horrible camera switching positions when you least expect it.All I can say is that the demo, for me, has done the exact opposite of what it was meant to do. I was sold on the game from what I'd seen before I played it
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Very cool game, he feels much lighter and faster than Drake in uncharted (ironicly).
The story seems really intresting, found myself getting furious at that girl.
The story seems really intresting, found myself getting furious at that girl.
Soldato
I played the demo and thought it was ok. Not brilliant but it was only the first level. I'm still going to buy this game.
Developer diary about the game.
Soldato
Edge already devoted two main articles to this so they were hardly going to diss it. As to Heavenly Sword, I thoroughly enjoyed the demo but never had the patience/ability to get through that opening scene where you had to destroy the land ships. Apparently Alex Garland wrote this one.
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They gave Hyrdophobia two big gushing previews. In that same issue they gave it 3/10. I don't always agree with them, but they aren't usually guilty of what you're accusing them of.