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War of the Worlds

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  • 26-10-2011 10:05pm
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    mise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,147 ✭✭✭


    Just picked this up on xbla, and so far after about 20 minutes I'm quite impressed. Both the setting and ambience are great. The first time I heard the martian horn, it brought back some childhood nightmares.

    Seems to play like flashback, and is quite difficult with a lot of precision platforming. I've already died a fair few times.

    800 points sounds like quite a reasonable price too. Anyone else given this a go yet?

    Oh and Patrick Stewart narrates.. which imho is a very good thing


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    deathrider
    Registered Users Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭deathrider


    UUUULLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

    I didn't even realise there was a War Of The Worlds game. I really must investigate. I'm a huge fan of Jeff Wayne's muscial take on the story.


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    deathrider
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    Just played the demo there, and it's really not my cup of tea. Crazy dark, which reminds me of Limbo (from the videos I'v seen, as I haven't played Limbo), and the purposely stiff controls remind me of Flashback.

    As you mentioned though, Patrick Stewart sounds great in it.


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    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Damn I love war of the worlds but my Xbox keeps signing out due to crappy eircom service :(


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    calex71
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    I was looking forward to it until I played the demo the other day, felt a bit slow and clunky for my taste. Maybe it gets better later? Over all it was like a poor mans limbo to me . Even Patrick Stewart didn't do it for me :(


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    RobertFoster
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    Only 2/5 from Joystiq :(

    I hadn't heard of it until Giant Bomb did a quick look recently, but I liked the look of it.


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    super_furry
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    Bought it after the demo but it's not great. Kinda like a poor man's Flashback.


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    Mr E
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    I liked the demo (great art style), but I'll pick it up on sale for 400 around Christmas. :)


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