Unreal II: The Awakening

Rating:
Summary: Halo Clone
Review: Warning: this game is not for kids!

Unreal 2 for the Xbox is a first person shooter (FPS) game. You play a space marine named John Dalton. You travel with your small crew of bounty hunters to different planets securing alien artifacts. The alien artifacts are believed to be parts of a super weapon. Everyone wants the weapon, including power hungry
aliens. Unreal 2 is very similar to the famous game "Halo", but it lacks the intensity and polish of, Halo. They even included some levels where you fight alongside space marines, but the A.I. is not very impressive. Everything in this game is just average. I felt bored in many of the levels because they required too much walking in an empty world and no action taking place. The voice acting is terrible. The actors sound like amatures reading the script.

Pros:
+good controls
+average graphics
+average sound effects
+lots of weapons
+long game

Cons:
-Halo rip-off
-long loading times
-no co-op gameplay
-too much walking
-severly scripted
-lacks excitement
-retarded voice-acting
-John Dalton sounds like a dork


Rating:
Summary: Stay with the PC version
Review: Yes folks, it's sad but true, but this game is a very poor port of the PC version. I wonder how the programers could waste the potential this game had on a machine that delivered us a firt gen game like Halo. I was excited about this game; although even the PC version is a less than fantastic game, a kind of liked it. Than comes the time for the Xbox version, and what a disapointment. The graphics are a mere shadow of the PC version. Like the other reviewer said, the cutscenes are terrible, i couldn't beliave my eyes. The graphics are bad for even those who never played the PC version. Not that i don't think that Xbox can recreate the graphics of the PC version, because a machine that can deliver us games like Halo and the wonderful "PC port" of Return to Castle Wolfenstein certainly can do that. Ok, the graphics are bad, but the gameplay is still good, right? Wrong, it feels like the programers didn't pay much attention in porting the gameplay to the Xbox control, because it's very jerky. At least the sound is still good, but that's it. I am a huge Xbox fan and i had high hopes for this game, but all i can say is to avoid it.