The story is fun if taken the right way. Don’t expect heavy handed drama like in Gears of War, instead I like to compare the story to a 90′s action comedy. It’s sort of like those action flicks you’d watch cos they’re stupid but fun (Tango & Cash, Lethal Weapon). Plus it has these long cut scenes, Metal Gear Solid style, that are a treat.

The relationship feature (called Trust in the game) DOES have an effect, not just in combat but it also changes the story and ending depending on your standing with your other team mates. You can even have a romantic sex scene with one of the characters if your Trust is high enough.

Sure, the characters are generic, but that’s one of the attributes that make it feel like a stupid but fun 90′s action movie, and they are somewhat interesting because they evolve as your trust with them changes.

And as for the voice commands, more often then not they do work, and it’s a fun distraction, but the game doesn’t hang it’s hat on this so you can’t really say anything negative about it. Besides, I applaud a game for trying to do something a little different, introduce a little newness to established trends. It’s an old school way of thinking and it adds a little something extra to the value and uniqueness of the game.

I think had you really reviewed this game you would have loved it Joe. It’s right up your alley. I got it on a Steam sale for PC and it really surprised me. I didn’t expect to play it long, but instead I got hooked and played it all the way through in almost a day. I loved it to pieces and I was pleasantly surprised. I strongly recommend you get the full game Joe, it would surprise you to, I think. Plus I’d love to hear an actual review of this from you

P.S. You can aim grenades, you have to pull the left trigger.

Why 8? and not 9 or 10? because the disability of speech recognition system today is horrible. I mean yes it was kind of fun speaking rather simple words like great, ok, nice, no, yeah, nope, BUT other words like damn, f*ck, any sentence longer then one word except “love you” are almost impossible to register. That’s one point minus and the other point minus is that the game doesn’t bring anything new. I mean it’s like been there done that. Copy, Paste. But with that said the fights, the cutscenes they are good and a lot of fun. There even are some mildly tear jerking moments.

And last of all but not the least JAPAN. I mean I’m a huge anime lover and the japanese culture is like second culture to me. I love Japanese people, I love their culture and I love every friggin’ inch of Japan wholeheartedly. That’s why every time Japanese actors spoke, I was like Oh yeeees do it more often.

There are freakin awesome cutscenes, like the one a robot think that he is human and kills him self when he saw that he was a machine…

It could whoever had better weapon upgrades, since u can only upgrade the weapons of the characters and not the others…

But the new video player is a pain in the butt: IT WONT WORK WITH THREE MONITORS! I have the video in low quality stuttering over all three screens instead of a correct aspect ratio with a video on one screen. Please go back to the old player – if possible!
Because YouTube is about 1000% slower than your blip.tv server.

Best,
Timo

It plays exactly like Gears of War. That isn’t a bad thing in itself so long as its backed up by something unique like the trust feature, but that gets bogged down by the voice commands. To be honest it is nice to see bits o robot fly off their bodies and to see them wander and shoot without abandon when their heads are gone, something Locusts can’t do.
Voice commands are a pile of shit and eggs. Every time a squade mate asked me to issue a voice command for permission to do something the demo wouldn’t pick up my voice and everytime it did it was in combat, without context and had my guy say the most retarded thigs which just pissed off and confused my squad. “Stop” “I love you”
Whats worse is that my kinect picked up every vocal my squademates made and the demo interpreted that as a voice command, further confusing and infuriating my squad.
The final straw came from a point where I had to jump from a roof on to a giant robot to destroy its head. No matter how close it was when I jumped, I either missed or my character refused to find footing and slipped right off. Sliding back down the robot’s front, earning me more ayre from my squad.

A shit demo, for a near good Gears clone