Asura's Wrath for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

So, first and foremost, this may be the perfect GameFly game.

It's short, as you've probably already read, and that makes it perfect for renting, rather than buying outright. Great way to spend a day or two, depending on how you decide to spread out a few hours.

The game gets a lot of flak for being short. And if you bought it, that's kind of a bummer, but people seem content with COD and any FPS which is just as short, if not shorter and the story sucks.

Asura's got a pretty neat story, which is also told well, and with great voice acting. It's a bit more "sci-fi" (not sure if that's an accurate description) than I expected, but it works well with the interpretation and art style.
The characters are all awesome.
The enemies... meh...
Gameplay is a bit weird. There's TONS of cut scenes to drive the story, and actually less gameplay than I expected, even after reading the reviews. It's basically broken into two types,
Type 1: is a bunch of shooting, almost on rails. I don't like this. The lock-on indicaters are huge and bright and fill up the whole screen... feels like I'm playing Rez or something.
Type 2: is 3rd person combat. This part is good. Mostly just brawls and stuff and it's pretty good.

So game plays out as so... Cut scene, battle sequence, another scene, maybe another battle, another scene, ending scene, comic scene, preview for next chapter scene (SPOILERS) and then repeat.

I really wish however that the game was a full on 3rd person beat em up, with exploration and more moves, grabs, maybe interactive environments (throw enemies into objects, throw objects into enemies, pick up weapons, etc. etc.) but the game isn't like that unfortunately.

The preview for the next chapter DOES kinda spoil some stuff... but, I guess if you see a glimpse of an awesome boss battle, it will incline you to keep playing?

Ultimately, this is a great game to GameFly. Good story, characters, voice acting. Just, not as much gameplay, and not the "best"

There is nothing i can say to down play this game graphics amazing, gameplay intense story wish it were a real anime movie. it has everything you would want in an action.

if i had to find any negative thing about this game it would be the no time to rest cut scene it's a continuous play through. i'm the type of gamer who enjoys sitting back and watching cut scenes but you have to pay attention do to the QTEs. not a bad thing but just kinda annoying especially since MGS4 is my favorite game and they have 90 cut scenes lol

but yea good game