| What can I say that at this
point? Oni is a pretty damn mediocre game. There is nothing about it
that will entice you to keep playing beyond the second or third
level. I had to. You don't. Lucky S.O.B.'s. I knew this game was in
trouble the moment I kept blowing the training mission where I had
to run around the room. Once I mastered simple movement, the use of
firearms stumped me, until I realized it wasn't me that was the
problem; it was the game. Once I figured that out, the game actually
became a little easier to play, because I can over compensate for
crappy control like a true professional; that is, when I'm not
chewing on my controller in a rage or seeing how far across the room
I can huck it. Simply put, and bluntly too, Oni's controls are out
of whack. Developers should never give the players too much control
over the camera, and this is exactly what happened. You use one
stick to move and the other to aim, which is great for a FPS, but
this is a 3rd person perspective and it doesn't work. I favored hand
to hand combat all the time, which is pretty useless later in the
game when you are ganged up on.
So we've established that the control blows, how about the
graphics? Undeniably weak. These environments are about as
repetitive as the actual gameplay. There is nothing here that
screams next generation, except for the frame rate. The enemy AI is
extremely dim and will stand mere feet away completely unaware of
your presence as you off another one of their co-workers. Almost all
of the thugs tend to attack in the same manner which means that a
few kicks and punches and you'll be rid of them. Unless you are
attacked by a multitude of dumb guys, who happen to know that there
is strength in numbers.
The only saving grace to Oni is the sound and the voice acting
which is surprisingly good. The dialogue spoken by the henchmen is
pretty entertaining and should be listened to very closely.
Musically the game is sparse and intrusive, and didn't have much of
an effect on my either way.
Oni is right along side X-Squad when it comes to weak and flawed
PS2 action titles. There is nothing in Oni that hasn't been done
better on the 32 bit systems. Stay away in droves. The box looks
cool, so that's one positive. Other than that, sorry if you were
hyped on this one as much as I was, but the hype actually just
turned out to be bold face lies. Funny how that happens, isn't it? |
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Developer :Bungee
Genre :Action
Reviewed By Ps2Domain.Net:
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