I’ll be honest, I went into E3 irate at Microsoft, not unlike a large portion of the gaming community I’m sure. Raging on forums, tossing insults, making jokes at their behalf, basically trying my best to fart in their cereal. I was positive I was getting a Ps4, to hell with my loyaltys.
Then Microsoft did the first good thing they have done since the reveal of the One, and while it wasn’t a game changer, it was a start. They brought the games, the game lineup for Microsoft was so much stronger than Sony. Most of the games that interested me in the Ps4’s lineup were coming to both consoles, mainly kingdom hearts 3 and ff 15. Microsoft though showed me Forza 5, Dead Rising 3, Titanfall, and of course the game I want to talk about today, Ryse. I was mad at myself for admitting it, but these games looked great.
Anyways Ryse, 300 the freaking game. Yes it looks slightly quicktime event driven, but from the video those look more like combo finishers and counters. The graphics look beyond amazing, and while this does look strangely like the beach scene from Saving Private Ryan, It’s intense and story driven. I just hope that you don’t get cornholled into following only a certain path (being on rails).
The Combat looks simply amazing, the quik time fighting reminds me so much of 300, one of my all time favorite movies. To break up the monotony it looks like they have you working from a phalanx, sieging the wall, and calling in archers for help. Commands can be given to your troops using your Kinect to further immerse you in the game. Smartglass can be used to check achieves and give you in game tips and tricks/ walkthroughs, will have to see if this feature is useful or not once the game releases.
All in all, this game alone wont sell the system to me. If Microsoft plays their cards right, changes their mistakes and give me more games like these. Well than I may just give them another chance.
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Game looks great, I dono about the qte’s though, I guess we will just have to wait until november to find out……..
Ya I’m hoping they are more like finisher moves, like as in you can just barage someone to death without them if you like. Game looks freakin intense though, and graphics aren’t the most important thing in the world to me, but they do look purty. I’m also glad to find out that they are only using the Kinect for voice commands, I’m not a huge fan of prancing around my room, but yelling at my troops to do shit is ok with me. This will save a button on my controller for other things to, like killin shit.
on a side note check out this cool comic thingy I found, supposed to be a prelude to the game.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/games/ryse/comic/issue1/