Jusarious

I cannot believe this game has gotten such a high rating. From the 8 bit music to the annoying AI that can only follow 4 commands... its embarrassing frankly.

15 mins of play for every 2 hours of talking to NPC's.. I am so far not having much fun. Sure your not grinding for gold or quests to collect 3 vials of poison (Wait you do that last one) but, does it have to be so boring.

Bioware released a 4 minute video showing a great battle on a mountain against a lot of mobs and a dragon. After 12 hours of playing, I can hardly believe these characters dress themselves in the morning let alone kill monsters. And gods forbid you pick a mage class, your spells are great at the start but become as powerful as a cigarette lighter after a few hours of play.

Your character is apparently in love with this blood mage, who frankly has about as much development as Elmo and I care so much less about what happens to that jerk than I would a common villager. Believe me, I have tried to be a jerk to this guy but he still thinks I am his brother. I know nothing about him except he was in my face when I passed a test and apparently is my friend.

Oh and don't get me started on the music for the Red Cliff battle. Riffs stolen directly form Hells Kitchen. They should have had Gordon Ramsey as a character in this game, at least I know who he is and can Identify him as a powerful figure. I badmouth a king and he laughs it off. Gordon would tear me a new rear end if I looked at him funny.

AI, wow. If that is what you can call it. You get maybe 4 commands, after 12 hours of play, per character to choose their actions in battle. And with so many combos of behaviours you want your Party to do in a certain situation, the developer basically forgot to program it and makes me program the AI for them. Which works about as well as a pumpkin carving itself on halloween. I put the knife down in front of it and a picture of what I want it to look like but unless the criteria of "can only carve myself if I am set on fire" happens then I have a rotten damn pumpkin after a couple of days of sitting on my counter.

You don't understand that you say? Play the game, and you will. Inept comes to mind. Sure, you can micro manage and pause the game to have each character perform a command similar to a turn based rpg. After 2 hours of blah blah blah with some jerk in a town I can now wait more to do a command that may or may not work. Resisted!

Its like playing a game of chess with Buzz Killington. Each move comes with a 15 minute story and a weird smell.

Graphical presentation is slightly above Never Winter Nights 2. Another game I loathed due to the fact it took away the sandbox style zones and gave you one path to follow. NWN2 along with this game should have been a rail RPG.

Character customization is really a joke. How your character looks plays NO part in how the game works. You can see your character in the talk screens but who cares. No matter how ugly your character is the NPC's will still treat you the same.

I have been playing RPG's for a long long time. From Ultima on the Apple 2e to Final Fantasy and yes NWN1 (Which was a great game). But this game, is NOTHING like how it was presented and is actually a complete FAIL in my opinion. I will play it through but I suggest if you want to try it, steal it. Save your money for Assassins Creed 2 or Borderlands. Yeah, I suggested to steal it. Games should be play tested prior to release not tossed out there because you have an ego the size of your lear jet and don't care about the consumer. Why should anyone spend hard earned money on this tripe. They should play it to create a benchmark for 'how bad a game could be' and improve on it. That way this never happens again.

If I had to give it a rating it would be 1 out of 5. The one is for the cool CGI video released that got me excited. 1 for great marketing. The development team has created a Gigli. Hang your heads in shame.

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(not edited for punctuation or grammar due to lack of wanting to waste more time on this bad game)