Mindjack for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

Don't be like me and let the high ratings fool you, this game is garbage warmed over. Utterly boring and repetitive, once you play for 10 minutes it's the same through the whole game. Same enemies with minor variations, same weapons, idiotic AI for a partner. I returned it the same day. It had promise, the visuals were pretty good and the ability to take over someone else was a nice add. However it ends there. Apparently you have to observe a woman who is a target of interest, then suddenly you become an outlaw instantly because of a fight. Now everyone is trying to kill you and her. Although there is a "single player" campaign, the game is obviously designed for multiplayer. The game has way too much of a arcade style shooter. It's divided into stages, some which are very short. You start a stage, fight enemies, complete the stage, start the next one. Same thing over and over it gets far too predictable. It's like putting peanut butter and jelly on different bread, tastes practically the same each time although it looks slightly different. Also, weapons don't carry over to the next stage. You start each one with a crummy pistol and need to find others. Your partner is a complete moron, often charging into a fire fight, and they won't pick up any weapons unless you take control of them. Enemies also take a good amount to kill even with head shots. Also, they keep spawing out of buildings until usually you kill a certain amount, again very arcadish. A better plot or storyline, well, wouldn't help but might have been nice all the same.

THE GOOD
Graphics
Mind control

THE BAD
Repetitive
Idiotic AI
Two weapon limit

THE UGLY
Repetitive
Idiotic AI
Too arcadish

This game gets a 1 because it's trash complete and utter trash. The friendly AI seems like it was designed to make everything in the game more difficult. The controls are so poor that the game is almost unplayable, and the voice acting, story, and graphics follow suit, there is nothing redeeming about this game.

I like the next age games from all sorts of providers. This one had some limit to it. Now the ability to jump 3 times after shot to another body was great. The ability to warp close to next body also great. Now the premise of this game is to hijack a person a robot or a dog. The issue is that they have to be dormant or just almost dead. Not the ideal setting for you to play in because lets face it if a person jumps into your game all they have to do is kill you 3 times or kill all of your jump sites and well game over. The AI added benefits like spray reduce and such are great but show no real advantage in the game. The AI you play against is deadly in his shooting with a 98 % hit accuracy. You on the other hand with multiple shooter are around 54 % so the off swing is not balanced. I wouldn't recomend buying this but what do i know ?

This game is an OK 3rd person shooter. Its good but not satisfying enough. The game has the storyline of one of those pedal pushing shooters of an arcade. ( quick lets get out of the airport now shoot these bad guys while the girl hacks the door) this game would be great if it came out 2 to 4 years ago but now it just feels out dated. But the biggest part of this game was its downfall. The game allows you to take control of downed enemies and have them attack for you.....but also when you die/get downed this game allows you to just travel to a civilian(which are placed way to often) and take them over till your guy gets his health back. but in the end its a quick and easy shooter game. For anyone who focuses on shooters this game is a easy gamer score booster. I'd say its worth playing but its not gonna replace any of your other shooter like COD or GEARS

It's fun and different, the controls are unique, and are fluid. The graphics are budgeted but don't affect the game. There are tons of people to be, both female, male, monkeys, and robots. The game is great reminds of deadly premonition and spy fiction and lifeline, super strange but super good!

I played this for like 20 minutes before I was done. Usually I get farther in games like this, but this game doesn't even pass into "So Bad It's Good" territory. It's just terrible.

Personally i like this game and think it is enjoyable. Some flaws are voice and the action are lacking. Square Enix has good ideas but didnt quite live up to them. All in all some may like it while others may not.

I'm sure if you are reading this you are just doing it to see the "This game sucks" or "don't buy this" because you watched Angry Joe or Zero Punctation, but I'm about to blow your Mind....Jack and say this game is not bad....its not good but it isn't as bad as one would think now.

Let me explain, when this game was released of January of 2011, players were plauged with terrible AI and terrible story and voice acting, ok the story and Voice acting is right up there with resident evil but it isn't "all your bases are belong to us" bad. But its the A.I that got an overhaul. They feel like a threat rather then a bunch of stupid mooks.

The mind hacking portion is pretty enjoyable, and comical because when I mind hack a scared civilan, they pull out a gun out no where....I'm not even gonna asked where she had it. The gun play is pretty solid, not perfect but it isn''t too loose.

I admit, the story makes no sense but its almost like watching evil dead, you are kind not suppose to make sense of it.

Pretty much this is an interesting rental at best which I give a 4.5 out of 10

Just make sure you don't go in thinking it will be an epic on the level of Mass Effect, or have the game play of Gears

it missed. it missed bad...

It's a pretty neat twist on your typical shooter, but there was nothing here to keep me interested. I played it twice for a few hours then set it on the shelf for a few days and could find no real compelling reason to put it back in the Xbox. I have no desire to see how the story unfolds and ends. It just didn't capture my interest.

The idea of the game is good... you play a guy that has the ability to take control of anything and anyone... sounds fun... and it is... but the problem is that on the 3rd or 4th mission they make it almost impossible to win... your character dose very little damage to the enemy and u have to literally almost kill the enemy before you can take control of them... and on top of that there bullets kill you in 2 shots... so when you finally get out of the beginning area (i don't wanna ruin it for the poor individuals that rent this) you have to fight 4 cops that are waiting for you. no problem. beat them and take as many as u can to help you... well right when you kill them a cut scene starts and you then have to fight a huge robot... with no explosives or anything... and it tells you bullets don't damage it. you then spawn in the middle of the road with like 10 enemy's already shooting you... if it wasn't for this one part it might of gotten better ratings... but I'm sticking with don't get this game...

You know i had high hopes for this game, its not often that you run into a game that lets you turn your enemies to your allies. Unfortuantly, however, if you turn into the AI bubble and leave your main characters by themselves, they will run straight into enemy fire. While i was controlling a citizen trying to get the "drop" on the bad guys, the main characters got themselves killed, so i find myself constanly playing as the main character, that alone made me feel like the concept was a dumb one. If they had made the AIs a litte bit smarter to where you didnt have to constantly check up on them then it would be an ok game worthy of a five instead of the 3. The story doesnt flow very good nor is it very creative, bodies being shipped? WHY? If they are dead why ship them, why not just have them buried and also why not have the people just plain abducted. Nothing hardly makes your character have a distinct advantage over the bad guys except for the mind hack thing. Another thing that was small but bugged me was that there are propane tanks, thinking they would explode i shot them hoping that they would, however they dont. What kind of game has propane tanks that dont explode when you shoot them? Not only that but there is one thing that annoyed me the most about this game. . . the next level screen. After each level or scene as the game calls it, it asks you if you want to continue the story. If i press campaign i want to play the campaign dont ask me to bring me back to the menu constatly. You cant even pause the campaign if you are playing it! I know that thats a multiplayer feature to the game but if i change a setting to where nobody but me can play, IT SHOULD BE ABLE TO PAUSE!!

This game is very bad, however its not the worst game i have ever played. All in all horrible game and unless you want a few hours of your life wasted by a game with a horrible story, bad gameplay, dumb AIs, and (i didnt mention) unclear instructions, dont rent this game!!!!!!

this game was good and all but you DIE way to fast

I've been playing video games for over 30 years now. So I consider my gaming and my review of this game fairly professional, and now my 12 and a half year old son is starting to become a young gaming master him self. Now when I first read about Mind Jack in my favorite gaming magazine (Game Informer) I thought to myself this game look's like it might be awesome. Like I said might be. You can mind jack from character to character when your main character you play as dies or get's to wounded to go on. Basically this means when your character is wounded or you just want to use a different playable character on the screen at the push of a button on your controller, it kind of looks (graphic wise) like your soul leap's out of your body and you control the floating soul into the next playable character to take control of him or her or even some mechanical figure-robots as well. Sounds like a lot of fun but only for a limit time and gets repetitive fast. In fact the whole game is repetitive and the weapons you use lack in whats available as well (not many in fact) and the graphics are Ps2 at best and the story is barely noticeable in fact I can't even remember what the story was that it was so absent from the game. Basically floating from playable character to character is mainly the only thing fun to do in this game and even that is short lived like I said. Plus if you don't swap out from character to character fast enough which can get confusing or hard to find at times who's available to leap into (you will just die) even if your just in a simple fire fight between you and the bad guy's that aren't even part of a boss fight. Basically I wouldn't even rent this game if you really want to try it out find a friend who has it and borrow it from them. Then tell your friend how terrible they are for letting you borrow this PooPy game from them in the first place and wasting 10 or so hours of your life you can never get back. This game would only be fun if you lived in prison

This game was absolutely terrible, the fluidity of the movement was a rip off of Resident Evil and Gears of War. The concept of the game is indeed one the developers could have expanded their game around. But I couldnt stand the first 15 minutes of the game 1/10

this game will wear you out, nothing but shooting. have to kill everyone in order to move on. at least could have a few puzzles to figure out.

No ones given this game a 1 yet? C'mon guys, stop being so nice!