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Bastinka
August 21st, 2008, 11:34 AM
To start off Too Human is an RPG Game based on Viking / Norse times brought into a futuristic state of clusterfuck between cybernetics and 'For Valhalla!!' brutes. The game starts off with you, Baldir, some guy with a shaved head and not much look to him other than the pre-attached cybernetic wiring in your head. Depending on what class you choose his looks differ, slightly. There's not really much of an option seeing as every class is for the most part the same. The only useful class is the Champion, unless you have an Xbox Live buddy to play it with.. in my case I didn't.

Gameplay: Combat system could be better with more ways of killing your foes, such as special combinations of button mashing, but it's original so I'll leave it at that. The enemy AI aren't much, they're basic and just run at you with the only intent of killing you. Dying in this game yields no consequences whatsoever. Merely respawning 50 yards away from the point of death. Death is a 'Valkryie' or Angel sloooooowwwwllllyyyy carrying you up, which is just a means of the sick developers pissing all over you. Friendly AI don't do anything, they may shoot at some leaves and imaginary cans, barely even scratching the enemy. So friendly AI are as useful as having a giant banana follow you around. The idea of being able to jump is quickly brought to cancel itself out without being able to jump over tiny obstacles, onto or off ledges and not being able to jump off the level and die. What's the point of being to jump or roll if it's completely useless other than 'air combat'.

Storyline: Doesn't have much to it. Just that your wife died, your angry all the time, and you'll never catch on to half the shit that was going on or why it was. The game fails to explain anything. Eventually it hints at you in an angry manner as if you were supposed to be a genius fuck and make a guess about everything that happens. There's not much to say about the story other than it doesn't have much of an impact in the game, it's just a way of transitions between different environments for you to fuck everything up in.

Design: Looks and feels very nice in some parts. The game is just a clusterfuck of bad and good designs, more indecisive than anything you'll ever see. The animations are only good during combat scenes, or atleast they appear it as everything happens in a flash of explosions. Cinematics and other animations are pretty much shit. Voice acting is suprisingly good, the animations and expressions on the characters faces are not. I don't know what the designers had in mind with this type of design, but it sure isn't pleasing to the eyes. Graphics aren't everything but animations and gameplay are.

Design: 8.5

Gameplay: 6.0

Story: 3.0


To sum it all up the game's OK but not the best it could've been. Having seen it rated T made me quickly realize it wasn't going to be good. Overall the game is not worth the $59.95 USD, unless you have some odd fetish for shitty games or you're just the rich bastard that buys everything he doesn't already have.

Heathen
August 21st, 2008, 10:03 PM
I gotta fully agree, except that gameplay has to be dropped down to 4 or 5. I HATE the game. Its beautiful and the story makes for some interesting shit, but the gameplay is horrid.

Bastinka
August 21st, 2008, 10:15 PM
I cut it some slack in some parts, but the constant deaths are head-bashing-against-wall annoying.

Heathen
August 21st, 2008, 10:32 PM
I never died. I just hate the camera, and the gameplay is slllooowww and its ATTACKx6 then celebrate victory. If I wanted that, I'd play pokemon.

p0lar_bear
August 22nd, 2008, 12:50 AM
I never died. I just hate the camera, and the gameplay is slllooowww and its ATTACKx6 then celebrate victory. If I wanted that, I'd play pokemon.

At least you can speed up Pokemon battles by turning off battle animations. :downs:

Heathen
August 22nd, 2008, 04:40 PM
for fucking real

Sel
August 22nd, 2008, 05:16 PM
Next time you review something, link to the game. Being on dial up for the next week, I have no intention of going to google and waiting 10 minutes to figure out what the fuck something is that I cared very little about in the first place.

Otherwise looks full and appears to touch on important details. Didnt hit tl;dr for me, and stayed fairly in depth.

Botolf
August 22nd, 2008, 05:56 PM
Next time you review something, link to the game. Being on dial up for the next week, I have no intention of going to google and waiting 10 minutes to figure out what the fuck something is that I cared very little about in the first place.

Otherwise looks full and appears to touch on important details. Didnt hit tl;dr for me, and stayed fairly in depth.
Too Human: Denis Dyack's Pretentious Wankfest

Or so I hear.

jngrow
August 25th, 2008, 12:41 AM
I hear it's a game the fails to reach it's full potential. Long ass death animations and bad pacing, along with a lame health recovery system create a boring and frustrating ride.

Hotrod
August 25th, 2008, 12:47 AM
The game looked good to me, but that was before I read all these reviews. Like many other games, the concept is a good one, but it fails to completely do what it was created to do, which is really a shame, since a lot of these games could have been great.

Let's just hope that they learn from their mistakes.

Warsaw
August 25th, 2008, 11:40 AM
I hear it's a game the fails to reach it's full potential. Long ass death animations and bad pacing, along with a lame health recovery system create a boring and frustrating ride.

Ohai, Halo 3.

Bastinka
August 25th, 2008, 01:14 PM
Gtfo, everyone has different tastes and I for one love Halo 3.

Hotrod
August 25th, 2008, 01:33 PM
Same here, I also love Halo 3. It's different, but good. And, if you hate Halo 3 for those reasons, then you also hate Halo 2.

Heathen
August 25th, 2008, 04:42 PM
No, Halo 2 had more of an element of skill and took more knowledge of the little details. Halo 3 has, with lack of a better term, been noobified. Its been refitted to work for the children who beg their parents to buy the game. I, personally, would rather play some CE than halo 3.

Hotrod
August 25th, 2008, 04:47 PM
You're right about the Halo 3 being noobified, especially with the melee being so damn powerful. My post was directed more towards people not liking the health system, and complaining about it.

Bastinka
August 25th, 2008, 08:16 PM
Halo 2 was awesome I just hated the way it played at times. The SMG's were complete shit tbqh. I want it again :[

jngrow
August 25th, 2008, 10:42 PM
No, Halo 2 had more of an element of skill and took more knowledge of the little details. Halo 3 has, with lack of a better term, been noobified. Its been refitted to work for the children who beg their parents to buy the game. I, personally, would rather play some CE than halo 3.
No, Halo 2 had a bunch of stupid glitches that only people who played all the time knew about, it was lame. Also, way more auto-aim in Halo 2. Also, noob combo.

Bastinka
August 25th, 2008, 10:44 PM
Oh I was talking about Campaign, I never played Xbox Live with Halo 2.

jngrow
August 25th, 2008, 10:46 PM
Well, I loved Halo 2 also, but when it comes to which games takes more skill, not shit you can only find out about on the internet, Halo 3 wins.

E: also, not really trying to be angry/hostile toward you heathen, i just got some rage inspired from old days of H2.

Bastinka
August 25th, 2008, 10:48 PM
Alright, so we can all agree that Too Human sucks? Rite?

Heathen
August 25th, 2008, 11:21 PM
Rite.

jngrow
August 26th, 2008, 12:08 AM
Mhm.