Operation Darkness: First impressions

Wednesday 7 May 2008

I've had this Demo sitting on my 360 for just under a week, but i've only just taken a GTA breather.

The title screen reminded me somewhat of Devil may cry's , and told me in glowy red text to press the start button after the rating for "MATURE", Telling me it was full of scenes of violence. That made me slightly excited, nothing wrong with Excessive violence after all.

then it went downhill fast, with a million controls shown to me in a loading screen, and a lovely tactically map. This was my "Interlude" screen. I was of the opinion that an interlude broke up the action, but i hadn't seen any thus far, The menu screen looks like it was ripped out of a Japanese playstation game, with its grey boxes, and the pictures of the soldier's could of been ripped straight out of any number of japanese games.

Anyway, after confusedly stumbling through the "set up" without much success in understanding the game, I managed to get to another menu screen telling me to set members, A few button presses told me I was starting the battle, then I saw a pretty average start up screen. Suddenly, I realised what type of game this was. A cut out character of one of my soldiers popped up, and a grey box appeared with his speech.

It reminded me heavily of Vandal Hearts on the Playstation, not that this is a bad thing, as it was a good game, but Vandal hearts was a game thats roughly a decade old. When the battle started, i realised that this pretty much was the bastard child of Front Mission 3 and Vandal hearts, But I strived to give it a decent game anyway, for experimental purposes.


I thought the idea of Revolutionaries from WW2 transforming into werewolfs was pretty cool, and i'm a big fan of that thinking, I'm also a stickler for games like Front mission, Vandal Hearts, and X-com, and this game is very similar to them.

However, The main enemy of the game was without a doubt the camera angle, and it felt far too slow. In spite of my best efforts to pay attention, it felt tedious,and I quit the demo midway through the battle out of sheer boredom

Labels: First impressions, Operation Darkness, Xbox360

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