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After reading all of your reviews, I was at the local EB Games with the game in my hand. I did not want to play a game that only lasted a few hours and most of the playability lost after finishing it. So, I bought Animaniacs instead! :D Animaniacs came out the same day as Black. My nieces were over, so seemed like the logical choice. I am sure I will pick it up, used, one of these days.
GrandAmChandler
03-06-2006, 07:45 AM
I just picked this up last weekend, it's a good game but pretty short. Visually, it is incredible, and looks like something that should be released on another system.
The 8-page manual is pretty shitty, containing 1 screenshot, and the entire manual is in black and white. I expect more from a big publisher like EA.
This is visually and gameplay wise how the Medal of Honor / Bond series SHOULD be. I hope EA takes note of this for future FPS releases.
Gamereviewgod
03-06-2006, 09:44 AM
The 8-page manual is pretty shitty, containing 1 screenshot, and the entire manual is in black and white. I expect more from a big publisher like EA.
That's how all of them are. The Xbox 360 manual for Tiger Woods is all of six pages, including covers. EA skimps like crazy on their manuals now.
Mr.FoodMonster
03-06-2006, 10:40 AM
Ah yes, EA ripping you off even more. Ah.
Anyways, I rented this (mainly because the video place was out of every single movie I wanted to rent) and had high hopes for it, due to all the hype around it. Man, I really need to stop caring about hype. This game is just a huuuuge 'meh'. Alright, it looks pretty, sure, but... that dosn't really matter. Stuff blows up. Wow. Shoot terrorist. Shoot another that looks exactly the same. And again. Watch conveluted clip-scene.
BORING. This game honestly wasn't even worth a rental. I feel sorry for any of you that bought this game.
GrandAmChandler
03-06-2006, 11:57 AM
Ah yes, EA ripping you off even more. Ah.
Anyways, I rented this (mainly because the video place was out of every single movie I wanted to rent) and had high hopes for it, due to all the hype around it. Man, I really need to stop caring about hype. This game is just a huuuuge 'meh'. Alright, it looks pretty, sure, but... that dosn't really matter. Stuff blows up. Wow. Shoot terrorist. Shoot another that looks exactly the same. And again. Watch conveluted clip-scene.
BORING. This game honestly wasn't even worth a rental. I feel sorry for any of you that bought this game.
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Go shoot the bell tower with the Rocket Launcher, or the building with all of the glass windows. I was impressed.
my impression from the posts in this thread is that Black is either a pretty tech demo and/or a one night love affair, i'd say a $19.99 price tag would've been appropriate :P
Neo Rasa
03-06-2006, 01:38 PM
Hey when you're the biggest game publisher out there why worry about playtesting or manual quality?
EA started putting higher amounts of product placement into the games in order to keep the costs down. Not a bad idea but...
Fight Night Round 3 PS2/XBox - $39.99
Fight Night Round 3 XBox 360 - $59.99
All of the exclusive stuff in the 360 version relates to more product placement via the Burger King. You're paying an extra $20 for the honor of having more ads. LOL
PapaStu
03-20-2006, 12:35 AM
I finally beat this thing on Hard today. Total game time for a once thru on hard was just over 12 hours. That includes getting almost every secondary item ( I think I missed about 5 in all 8 levels). Also with that, the game is only sitting at a 40% completion.
Now that i've opened Black Ops mode i've got the 'Silver' guns (the guns actually are silver and they have unlimited stored ammo) so I'm going back and playing thru the game again to see what happens this time. SO far the only noticable difference is that i've got destruction points (the items that go BOOM when you shoot em otherwise known as the things that show black when the recticle is over them) on top of finding all the other stuff which all appears to be in the same place it was on hard mode.
My real only big dislike was the lack of more save points or in level saves. Those distances were pretty long between sometimes and replaying 20 minutes over and over got pretty annoying.
Joker T
03-20-2006, 03:37 PM
The checkpoints are horrible, sometimes I would die right before I reached one...and I think to myself "fuck this"