MEMBER PROFILE FOR swampthyng
Average Overall Score Given: 3.66667 / 10
Total Forum Posts: 10
Reviews
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Overall: Game is a very arcadey very strangely done demo derbyish type game. The crash em up mode of play just isn't fun for some reason.Gameplay: Gameplay is odd. The cars control very awkwardly and there isn't a whole lot of fun in driving them. They feel kinda like they are on rails or are RC cars.
Graphics: Graphics are decent overall, though all the cars look like they are made of pop cans and not a realistic car finish. The paint jobs are unique and interesting.
Audio: Sounds is below average for a car game. The wrecks don't really sound beleivable or even interesting.
Overall Score: 3.0 / 10
NFL 2K3
Overall: This isn't a bad game at all, in fact i'd probably have ranked it higher had it not been for one thing. I had allready played Madden 2003 on the PC and frankly no other football game ever compares to this game. NFL2k3 compares badly to madden and i'm as shocked as anyone to say that. I have NEVER liked a PC football title more than a console title and i was a HUGE fan of the 2k series on the dreamcast but this game just doesn't stand up to the king of football. The animations and lighting in madden put this game to shame. The playcalling in this game feels awkward compared to other games and i don't get a real sense of the play for some reason.Gameplay: Gameplay seems pretty solid for this series, nothing overly new or earth shattering. Seems to all the expected features. Gameplay itself doesn't seem very fluid and looks like a typical console football game, not very realistic looking.
Graphics: Graphics are pretty good, very crisp. Though the lighting and animations are sub par compared to madden 2003. If you have a PC get madden.
Audio: Sound is below average, commentary sounds sub par and the general sound effects aren't that good. The music is dull and quite plain.
Overall Score: 5.0 / 10
Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind
Overall: Anyone who likes RPG"s even remotely is probably wanting to check this title out, but sadly it doesn't even live up to the standards of it's predecessor daggerfall, except perhaps in the sheer amount of bugs.Gameplay: Gameplay in morrowind sadly amounts to nothing more than simple clicking of a button to swing your sword, cast your spell or shoot your arrow. The quests are mostly of the fetch and carry type that rely more on making you go long distances rather than actually having you do anything overly interesting. The plot is a sad and almost libelous ripoff of the Eye of the world series of books by robert jordan. And the side guild quests have you eventually wondering "why do i have nothing more to do now that i run the faction?" Yes that's right, once you gain control of a guild the quests STOP.
Or even more frustrating is that in a few of the great house quests you do something that sounds like it could be very interesting, ie. recruiting egg miners for you new egg mine that is supposed to bring money in for you....Only to find out that said egg miners NEVER show up and that the egg mine NEVER generates a cent for you. Or you work to get a stronghold, only to find that once you have the inhabitants don't really seem to care or even notice that you are the owner of it. Tons of things like this make the game a very frustrating experience of "man if they only woulda...."
Graphics: The graphics are excellent for the most part, though some of the "trees" were a bit lacking and the playable models are...well... less than stellar.
Audio: Sound is average. Not enough ambient sounds to really immerse you in your environment and not enough music to keep you from going "man i just heard that 10 mins ago" Overall the world is pretty quiet and mundane
Suggestions: All they had to do was remake daggerfall without the bugs and with better graphics and a few improvements and i think alot of gamers would have been happier. As it stands the game suffers from trying to do too much and not doing any of it particularly well. The game truly suffers on the xbox due to the fact of not being able to use user made plugins like the pc version.
Overall Score: 3.0 / 10
