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Xbox version, crashes every 20 to 30 minutes and has old school dead man walking on major plots, just fought for 3 hours (9 crashes) back to back combats to find I was dead man walking. So much potential with faster load times, zero crashes and some system to prevent you wasting your time while dead man walking this game has the potential to be great. But not now.

Interesting game, mixture of movie and game. I really enjoyed it, good difficulty curve really well written.

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Overly patched, the game seems to have become unplayable with patches. It is a very good game, but the balance of just one boss has gone too far. There is simply one boss that you need to kill in order to progress which can not be killed with the latest patches (and there is literally nothing left for me to do in the game), no techniques, side steps or abilities work, none of the youtube walkthroughs work (as the patches have not only addressed the obvious bugs) but patched out the techniques you could use to exploit a weakness, by making the boss hyper aggressive, air borne and makes the summons hang about to agro you during the fight. I may return and play the game unpatched, but right now there are other games to move onto. Dissapointing as I was enjoying it and had been killed 20-30 times on some of the earlier bosses, but there is a limit when the game stops being fun, and is not about gitting gud.

Old school gaming, very well written plot which you are able to drive in the direction you want, interesting levelling system. I enjoyed a lot, the graphics are a little dated, but the environments hold up. Ill buy the DLC and any follow ups though!

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Whoever thought a game where you are a pack mule who has a baby literally screaming at you would be fun needs their head examined. This is the absolute worst game I have ever played.

Just a bit slow, combat is nice, skills are nice, but load times and the amount of talking required is a little off putting. Got it on sale for £25 and feel I got value, but so much talking I didn't finish it.

Broken co-op, nonfunctional AI, poor micro transactions, incomprehensible story (not in a good Japanese way), broken stealth, bad dialogue and general bullet sponge enemies. Not a game for me, pretty though.

Although it lacks some of the features of the Android version, it does have the advantage of being noticeably faster for linking & deploying. Get up, Get Outside & Get Ingress and remember Apples are green ;-)

Insane scores on here for this great game. ME3 has moved on from its RPG roots to action/rpg drama. It does this well (but not without flaws). The bad : cover system is not right, day 1 DLC & the infamous ending, which offers virtually identical endings BUT watching the ending for the first time, it is a worthy ending to a great trilogy. The good : Great Story, humour, acting, great graphics, surprisingly good multi player (-cover system), great musical score, great character realisation, improved accessibility, improved combat mechanics, great AI (at higher levels), properly hard mode. It is not a perfect game, but it is pretty close and the best Bioware game since DAO. Just because a game is not perfect does not mean it gets scored at 0.

I dont often review games, but there are some outright incorrect statements being made about the negatives of Dark Souls. This is no harder than mario brothers, if you get to the end of the level in mario brothers you can move on, otherwise you start over. Now Dark Souls is an open world and there are lots of ways to go, but if you don't get to another bonfire, you start over. This is not hard, and anyone over the age of 25 should be used to this sort of game mechanic. However it is hard, and if you button mash you will die. If you run into an area and agro everything, you will die. If you use a two handed sword while balance precariously on a narrow ledge you will die, if when a boss appears you stand there and think wow he's kinda big I wonder **** will die. But all of these things are easily countered by using weapons and tactics appropriate to the situation (although the bosses can take some working out). Now graphics, they are stunning anyone who says otherwise is being obtuse, Anor Londo takes your breath away and will stay with me forever. However there are negatives, there is a problem with frame rate, in one boss fight and at the start of one area the frame rate drops, enough to possibly cause you to die because the combat is challenging. But this is possibly for 30 minutes of gameplay over a 100 hour game. There is a more annoying bug which none of the negative reviews have pointed out, therefore I would question whether they were in full control of their characters. I am a turn based guy, I like time to think about what I am doing, I like to be meticulous, but I am not particularly patient person, but this game has bought on a certain level of stoicism. One of the reviewers said there is no explanation of the stats, this is factually incorrect pressing select and moving over the stats tells you what they do, pretty simple really. Also truth be told until you get a stat to over 40 you cant really make a mistake anyway (and that is at SL35+ if you just spent on one stat). I am over 50 hours in and never seen a teleporting skeleton (although I did *once* clip through the floor). BTW if you are starting and you are running into skeletons, turn around you are going the wrong way the catacombs is not the place to start, you will die and the skeletons wont (they resurrect when in catacombs, worse you get no souls for killing them). I spent maybe 2 hours at SL8 trying to get into the catacombs before I got it through my thick head there must be something easier to fight in this "open world". Doh! off to the undead burg, life was easier. Also you do not die out of nowhere, you go charging around a corner and there is someone stood there with a big axe, what do you expect? a gentle tap on the shoulder and a deceleration of intent to attack you! no, look where you are going for goodness sake! Not once have I had a trap come out of a wall and kill me dead. I have hit pressure plates that I had not seen and taken serious sums of damage, I have tried out running a giant rock wearing plate mail, I have rolled backwards off ledges, I have been picked up by a boss and thrown off a ledge, but none of these deaths came out of nowhere! This game is not for everyone, you will not become the best player just because you have the time to pump 100 hours into it. You are rewarded for success and punished for failure, if you keep fighting resurrecting skeletons for 10 hours you will remain where you are not progressing. But if you are attentive, thoughtful and stoic every minute you spend with the game will be a joy and you will find yourself dreaming of this flawed masterpiece.