Genuine fucking masterpiece, combines Team Ninja's action expertise with classic RPG mechanics seamlessly and has a brilliant story that goes kino places by the end
Just watch the dlc cutscenes on YouTube tho

it's just the best action game ever made really, totally different from anything else out there even its own followups

Excellently paced, story falls slightly flat though where it swings for emotional moments that don't land

just a really well made shooter and a great showcase for early unreal 3 tech, especially love the way shadows are rendered with a sort of static pattern that gives it some stylization

Overall a really great entry, just be ready to do specific builds for a couple rough late game missions

it is JUST missions, one after the other with very little in the way of story or any other bs. Armored Core in its purest form perhaps. 100 missions is a LOT though, and quality can vary drastically and it can be very tiring if you're trying to do it all in one go - pace yourself on this one. Got pretty burnt out about 2/3 of the way through, but I do want to go back and wrap it up

Good for the first game on PS2, feels buttery smooth to play but mission design feels a bit inconsistent

has loads of content you could spend forever on and gave us 9

Decent followup/expansion

They were coming out of the gate swinging, still holds up given it's the first one

solid little game, doesn't go anywhere unexpected but it's all executed well and the cat gimmick works

is it as perfect of a game as the original? maybe not. it's damn good though and more than enough of its own thing while keeping the spirit of the original

what if RE4 was in space

one of the few AAA open world games I've replayed multiple times and would be more than happy to play again

how did they fuck up Gungrave dude