February 14th 2012 9:50 am PT

Haven’t looked into this game very much at all, hopefully it surprises me since that SEGA logo gives me low expectations even though I want to love SEGA so bad.

Sorry, but was this for real?
Sure, as a Live Arcade title I might believe it but retail? No way! ^^
This game has by far the worst graphics I’ve seen for quite some time, even worse then the old EDF 2017. The AI is simply horrible, just stand still and won’t even move when they got a grenade under their feet. The weapons are bland, and pointless, all “assaults”, LMGs and such feel the same, handle the same and deals just about the same damage (null) while the sniper is a 1 hit kill on any enemy except bosses, no matter where you hit (even the feet).
The missions are short (thank God), but still fail to be enterataining. The levels are made of really, really narrow corridors with nothing in them, sterile surfaces, a few random objects and nothing else, even CoD offers more freedom and better graphics, given the size of teh levels the graphic detail should be Crysis 2 at least.
The enemies all look the same, and act teh same, only difference between them is how many mags you’ll have to put in them (or 1 shot sniper rounds) and the colour, yes there is only 1 enemy model that shows up in an amazing 4-5 different colours?!
Add bosses, but since the second missions was cut at the boss fight, you’ll just face one, which you cant defeat unless
*SPOILER* you jump on his back, shoot him in the neck and look stupid, or grab the RPG *SPOILER*
which makes no sense really, why not just shoot him at the weakspot, but from a safe and covered position? Why not kill him with grenades, or rounds, or even electricity?
Sure, he’s “big and bad”, but that doesn’t explain why he’s so so utterly worthless at defending himself, dealing damage or pose any kind of threat.

Good things:
* Weapon upgrade system, was quite fun and free since you could upgrade as you choose to, not big and impressive but at least got the job done.
* Characters, I liked the characters, they talked a lot and despite the voice-recognition being way off, it was a blast hearing them have conversations that made no sense, especially in the middle of a fight.
* Child friendly, sure there are guns and such but shooting robots and no blood makes this game suitable for younger players, which might explain why it was so simple/lacking in other aspects.
* Supports voice commands, doesn’t work good but makes up for it by being funny ^^

Bad things:
* Voice recognition was horrible, probably because I had to use my headset (it wouldn’t let me use Kinect, WTF?), and it was more or less impossible to get the AI to do as you wished, since they got the wrong commands (“Cover me” was actually “I’m sorry”, “you’re bad” etc, while “I’m sorry was “stay put, makes no sense…)
* Graphics, the graphics were horrible at best, low level detail, no physics to talk of, horrible level design (massive re-used environments and backtracking), really bad movement-animations, felt like a xbox 1-game.
* Weapon balance, there was none. Either you got a sniper and killed anything, or you got any other weapon and put 2-3 full mags into an enemy to kill it, which weapon didn’t matter since except for sniper they were equally effective/bad when used.
* Missions, they were very short, poorly executed, no mission info or cut-scenes, just long corridors with “kill the enemies, they’re bad” stuff.
* Everything else related to the game

As I said, would make sense as a Live Arcade title, 800M s points/10$, at the most. Since they’ll try to charge you full price I give a 2/10 for effort and very funny conversations, that saved it from 1/10. I recommend you’ll try Syndicate instead, since it’s everything this games tries to be, only 100x better.