• Publisher: 3DO
  • Release Date: Jan 21, 2002
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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 19 Ratings

  • Summary: The time has finally come for Hiro to avenge his family and face the forces of darkness alone. His mastery of the four elements is strong, but not yet powerful enough to face the fifth element: the Void. Now Hiro must become a Master of the Elements and complete the Trials of Earth, Wind, Water and Fire. Only then will he be ready to face the powers of darkness in the realm of the final element . . . the Void awaits. [3DO] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 10 out of 10
  1. This game should be avoided by all means. A complete game engine overhaul is much needed, along with a graphics engine rework, better and less repetitious dialogue.
  2. Barely playable. The benefits of GoDai's smart control scheme and the inherent coolness of the protagonist's formidable powers are mercilessly buried by shoddy collision detection, maddeningly poor frame rates, and a primitive animation system.
  3. 30
    Though the game’s gliding feature is an inspired concept, trying to execute it, as well as most other moves, can be incredibly irritating due to extremely temperamental and unresponsive controls.
  4. It's as if 3DO felt that the horrendous Core-designed, Eidos-published PS One game "Ninja" deserved an equally-flawed sequel that doesn't look much better than Activision's "Tenchu" games.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 15
  2. Negative: 10 out of 15
  1. BrandonH.
    10
    I love this game! It's so cool and is tons better than gta3. I recomend it to everyone!!
  2. ZenithWarrior
    8
    This game enters you into a world unlike any other with its stunning 3D effects I nearly fainted when I saw how good it was!
  3. Rocksocker
    7
    It can be quite amusing if you look at it in the right mentality it's just a mockery of a game. It's out there to make every other game you play look beter. This is a terrible game but it only costs 1 buck. It is kinda fun and the dodging is kinda funny and cool at the same time. All in all I sort of like to play it for laughs. Expand
  4. I can think of very video games that have made me laugh, completely unintentionally of course, as much as GoDai: Elemental force. Supposedly a third person action game GoDai gets virtually everything wrong. The fighting mechanics are ridiculous (It’s possible to make a great deal of progress by simply doing a slow motion roly-poly over and over again!), the graphics are barely PSone standard and the enemies only seem to know about three phrases that they choose to repeat every ten seconds.

    It will likely provide you with a good twenty minutes of comedy gold but you won’t bother putting it back in your console again after that.
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