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Do you have a 3D TV? Me neither...
posted by HippyVock (FITCHBURG, WI) Dec 5, 2009
Member since May 2006
51 out of 69 gamers (74%) found this review helpful
Avatar stunk. I haven't written a review for a bit because Gamefly makes it impossible to keep track of them, but I had to get that out of the way.
Unless I'm mistaken, every problem stems from laziness - to the flat vegation that "turns" with you to appear full and lush rather than actually have quality (look at it from above and you'll LAUGH!) to the AWFUL platforming where your Navi pivots around an axis on their person (because no one else will tell you that the Navi parts are really a PLATFORMER disguised as a shooter) that will cause falling to your death more times than I could count (I seriously lost count around 46 falls-no lie). If I were to guess, I'd say some real good artists swindled Cameron out of two years of development money by presenting a very flashy product promoting 3D but consisting of never ending fetch missions without every giving the player a reason why. The script is fairly terrible (within the first hour my helicopter crashed after rescuing me, of which I somehow survived, only to leave me to fight my way out of the jungle and secure a new ride - oh yeah, THAT's original) with the voices/sound not matching one another at all.
There are loads more issues that I won't bore you with because alone they ain't that big of a deal, but together break the game. Any real gamer would have seen all the problems with this game in an hour or two and the product could have been a great shooter, stealth action save/destroy the planet adventure. Instead we get a poor Lost Planet clone that has no right telling as grand a story as Cameron invisioned.
As for 3D, I'm sure it would've been great. For the, what, 3% of people with a stereoscopic TV? have fun with that. As for the rest, why even bother? What a waste of a pretty game.
Unless I'm mistaken, every problem stems from laziness - to the flat vegation that "turns" with you to appear full and lush rather than actually have quality (look at it from above and you'll LAUGH!) to the AWFUL platforming where your Navi pivots around an axis on their person (because no one else will tell you that the Navi parts are really a PLATFORMER disguised as a shooter) that will cause falling to your death more times than I could count (I seriously lost count around 46 falls-no lie). If I were to guess, I'd say some real good artists swindled Cameron out of two years of development money by presenting a very flashy product promoting 3D but consisting of never ending fetch missions without every giving the player a reason why. The script is fairly terrible (within the first hour my helicopter crashed after rescuing me, of which I somehow survived, only to leave me to fight my way out of the jungle and secure a new ride - oh yeah, THAT's original) with the voices/sound not matching one another at all.
There are loads more issues that I won't bore you with because alone they ain't that big of a deal, but together break the game. Any real gamer would have seen all the problems with this game in an hour or two and the product could have been a great shooter, stealth action save/destroy the planet adventure. Instead we get a poor Lost Planet clone that has no right telling as grand a story as Cameron invisioned.
As for 3D, I'm sure it would've been great. For the, what, 3% of people with a stereoscopic TV? have fun with that. As for the rest, why even bother? What a waste of a pretty game.