It is not very common that a game's development transcends four different consoles and eventually does live to see the day as a final product.
Kameo: Elements of Power is a game Rare carried over through the years and finally met its fate on the XBOX360 as a launch title. The concept involves you playing as a fairy named Kameo that can transform into different creatures of respective elemental powers such as rocks, plants, ice, and fire.
On paper this is a great concept, unfortunately on execution is very, very rough. The game has a lot of linear map exploration with puzzle solving involving your magical allies. Alas, plenty of the detection can be very buggy, and while I can see the cleverness behind some boss battle mechanisms and dungeon situations, it feels like it needed further user experience revisions to go around, but it's likely Microsoft had run out of patience for this long lingering project and the release of the XBOX360 was just around the corner.
This is one of those cases I can feel the ambitious intentions of the developer, but it just needs more polish. I would say that if you are a hardcore fan of Rare it is at least worth a look, but it is honestly fairly difficult to make a straight upfront recommendation.
Kameo: Elements of Power is a game Rare carried over through the years and finally met its fate on the XBOX360 as a launch title. The concept involves you playing as a fairy named Kameo that can transform into different creatures of respective elemental powers such as rocks, plants, ice, and fire.
On paper this is a great concept, unfortunately on execution is very, very rough. The game has a lot of linear map exploration with puzzle solving involving your magical allies. Alas, plenty of the detection can be very buggy, and while I can see the cleverness behind some boss battle mechanisms and dungeon situations, it feels like it needed further user experience revisions to go around, but it's likely Microsoft had run out of patience for this long lingering project and the release of the XBOX360 was just around the corner.
This is one of those cases I can feel the ambitious intentions of the developer, but it just needs more polish. I would say that if you are a hardcore fan of Rare it is at least worth a look, but it is honestly fairly difficult to make a straight upfront recommendation.