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Not a BAD movie tie-in
posted by Droppo (HOUSTON, TX) Jun 9, 2011
Member since Dec 2006
40 out of 40 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
But what are we to expect when a comic book hero is the star of the latest summer movie? The game tie-in is inevitable, and 8 times out of 10, the game is really bad. Green Lantern is not that bad. It's not great either.
The graphics are actually pretty good. You spend most of the game in 3rd person perspective, and are a good distance back from Hal Jordan, the main character, of course. As the story progresses, you do get cut scenes with close ups, and the graphics hold up to close scrutiny. There is some cinematic "wow" factor here at times.
Voice acting is good, music is good, and effects are well done.
Here's the problem though: the game really plays on rails. Badly. You fight baddies in one sequence and them move right on the the next wave. Tiny cut scenes interrupt to further the story, but then you are right back on rails again. You can't fly unless they have set aside a special level that is a flying level. Otherwise, you only fly when you've cleared a few waves and it's time to move to another area. A small green lantern symbol will appear on the ground. Stand on it and press A, and you get to briefly fly to the next zone. What's a Green Lantern that can't fly? I find it a very strange design choice.
Best bits: leveling up earns you points to spend on new skills and shapes to create (constructs) with your ring. They start off simple enough with swords and spinning blades, hammers and the like. Eventually, you will unlock glowing gun turrets and much more complex and powerful weapons. This to me is the reason to play the game through the slogging waves of baddies. Fans of comic book superheroes will enjoy seeing all the new powers in action, and it makes you want to keep playing to unlock.
Comic fans have entered a golden age where their favorites hero gets a decent movie made and is given a little respect for a change. Keep your fingers crossed that the movie tie-in will be minimally as good as Green Lantern. Or hopefully, better...
The graphics are actually pretty good. You spend most of the game in 3rd person perspective, and are a good distance back from Hal Jordan, the main character, of course. As the story progresses, you do get cut scenes with close ups, and the graphics hold up to close scrutiny. There is some cinematic "wow" factor here at times.
Voice acting is good, music is good, and effects are well done.
Here's the problem though: the game really plays on rails. Badly. You fight baddies in one sequence and them move right on the the next wave. Tiny cut scenes interrupt to further the story, but then you are right back on rails again. You can't fly unless they have set aside a special level that is a flying level. Otherwise, you only fly when you've cleared a few waves and it's time to move to another area. A small green lantern symbol will appear on the ground. Stand on it and press A, and you get to briefly fly to the next zone. What's a Green Lantern that can't fly? I find it a very strange design choice.
Best bits: leveling up earns you points to spend on new skills and shapes to create (constructs) with your ring. They start off simple enough with swords and spinning blades, hammers and the like. Eventually, you will unlock glowing gun turrets and much more complex and powerful weapons. This to me is the reason to play the game through the slogging waves of baddies. Fans of comic book superheroes will enjoy seeing all the new powers in action, and it makes you want to keep playing to unlock.
Comic fans have entered a golden age where their favorites hero gets a decent movie made and is given a little respect for a change. Keep your fingers crossed that the movie tie-in will be minimally as good as Green Lantern. Or hopefully, better...
Better than expected, but short
posted by dfloss721 (GRAYSLAKE, IL) Jun 18, 2011
Member since Jun 2007
5 out of 8 gamers (62%) found this review helpful
Unlike the $300mil spent on the movie (Really Fox? You took that much of a risk on a guy best known for playing Van Wilder?), the video game you could tell was working with a tighter budget. Nothing is great, replay value is practically zero, but I did enjoy the SP action/adventure campaign even though I breezed through it in 6 hours.
The 1st thing you’ll notice is the attention to detail that went into showcasing Ryan Reynolds perfectly formed buttox. The 2nd thing is that the game is really just 1 short campaign, but the drop-in/out feature for OFFLINE co-op was nice. The 2nd player gets to be the pink faced guy, so fortunately you both can wear green spandex. Player 2 gets everything the main player 1 has, so the bonus of having another unique guy to play with is VOID. That was lame.
The levels are extremely linear and simple but you do have over a dozen cool unique moves with your Green ring where it creates things like giant gatling guns, lasers, missiles, a huge Mech, baseball bat, giant mines, giant hammers, etc. Those can be upgraded, and set to whatever buttons you want for added button mashing.
A is jump, X is light attack where you swing a giant green sword, Y is heavy and swings a large green hammer/giant fists that can launch foes in the air for added air combos. B shoots a green extended arm to grab an enemy to pull towards you. The idea is like God of War and a ton others where you have a combo meter and as you get better combos your skills advance, opening new combos, and so on. Magic has a meter which you collect glowing orbs and dealing damage to build it back up. You also have a bar for a special ability by pressing LB and RB which gives you super duper strength and unlimited magic abilities (seen in every games like this). Mix them together to get sweet 100+ hit combos.
Great for a weekend rental or to score easy achievement points, but this is one and done and a little bit of fun.
Milt Drucker
-gamertag-
The 1st thing you’ll notice is the attention to detail that went into showcasing Ryan Reynolds perfectly formed buttox. The 2nd thing is that the game is really just 1 short campaign, but the drop-in/out feature for OFFLINE co-op was nice. The 2nd player gets to be the pink faced guy, so fortunately you both can wear green spandex. Player 2 gets everything the main player 1 has, so the bonus of having another unique guy to play with is VOID. That was lame.
The levels are extremely linear and simple but you do have over a dozen cool unique moves with your Green ring where it creates things like giant gatling guns, lasers, missiles, a huge Mech, baseball bat, giant mines, giant hammers, etc. Those can be upgraded, and set to whatever buttons you want for added button mashing.
A is jump, X is light attack where you swing a giant green sword, Y is heavy and swings a large green hammer/giant fists that can launch foes in the air for added air combos. B shoots a green extended arm to grab an enemy to pull towards you. The idea is like God of War and a ton others where you have a combo meter and as you get better combos your skills advance, opening new combos, and so on. Magic has a meter which you collect glowing orbs and dealing damage to build it back up. You also have a bar for a special ability by pressing LB and RB which gives you super duper strength and unlimited magic abilities (seen in every games like this). Mix them together to get sweet 100+ hit combos.
Great for a weekend rental or to score easy achievement points, but this is one and done and a little bit of fun.
Milt Drucker
-gamertag-
Another Poorly Thought out game
posted by upsetgamer (PLAINVILLE, KS) Jan 13, 2012
Member since Mar 2004
Why are there so many games made that unless you have superhumaan faster then light reflexes you can't defeat the Insanely difficult Bosses? Wait I know it is because the programmers have never played the games without all the cheats that the player will never have turned on so they have no clue that the Games they are making are impossible to play. no wonder i havent bought a game made in the last 5 years. Programmers get lazy and design games no one but they can play
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