Jumper: Griffin's Story for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

All I can say is from someone who has been playing video games for over 25 years is, don't waste your money on this one. The graphics are horrible. Even when you're walking on sand it sounds like you're walking on a wooden floor with those ridiculous shoes Griffin wears. Just that alone made be want to call up the developer and yell at him. At some parts during the game you can't even see when you're fighting because the camera angle hasn't evened out yet. Meanwhile, you're just hitting buttons because you're getting hit. Absurd I tell ya. This is one of the worst games known to man. I like Excite Bike better on the Nintendo. What the heck were they thinking when the made this game. I figure it this way, all developers should compare their games to all the top ten games of the year and try to make that list. If not, don't even bother making? it. Budget or not. Who was the attracting audience? 6 yr olds? Even then, their parents won't spend $60 for this piece of garbage game. I hate it.

I got this game because I'm a gamerscore farmer, and I imagine that's why you're interested too. I was shamelessly trying to boost my score, and I was on a website that recommended this game because it was "a fast and easy 1000 points".

Well, thats sort of true. It was fast. Easy? No.

Now, when you set up a gamefly account solely to boost gamerscore, you do so prepared to play some pretty awful games. I've played Avatar, TMNT, Terminator, and Cabela's Big Game Hunter, not once expecting a good game. But each time, I got what I was expecting; a mildly entertaining, frustration-free 1k. But when a game fails to meet "fun standards" for a gamerscore farming title, thats saying something. Jumper didn't even come close.

The first 700 points or so should come very easily, inside of 2 hours, frustration-free. After that, this game becomes very challenging. But its not challenging because of smart AI and requires mastery of the controls. It's challenging because the game is unbelievably terribly made.

You will get stuck in walls. You camera will get stuck. You will be punished for doing things correctly. The game will cause you to make an error, rather than your own judgement or reflexes. You will land successful attacks, and then be hit by the enemy you just attacked during your recovery animation. There is no block button to prevent this. It is THE POOREST EXCUSE FOR A COMBAT SYSTEM I HAVE EVER SEEN IN 16 YEARS OF GAMING.

The first 90% of the game is an absolute cakewalk. You will laugh at how easy the game is. In 2 hours you'll be at the last level, getting sodomized over and over again by this game's numerous flaws. Your failure will hardly be your fault at all. Skill in this game is derived from learning how to play around the game's faults. As a result, achieving mastery of the game is not fun in the slightest, but rather a trial-by-error chore that requires you to remember to do the counterintuitive. Bad even for a boost game.