1. NaviarW.

   10

   Advent Rising has flaws but, Overall. This is one of the greatist games of all time. The Score is arguably, better then Halo. The story is one of love, action, belief and responsibility. Most deffinetly up there with The Matrix, Star Wars and other greats. the gameplay is where the game falls. Although it has the best lock-on system I have ever played, it is lock-on. But I think the game picks itself back up and keeps going because of its pace. The fact that you change weapons and special abilitys and to duel wiled them, dozens of combinations are possible. This game was ahead of, not only it's time but, it's generation. Just look at games comming out later this year and games comming out next year. Stranglehold, Uncharted, Fracture, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed! Advent Rising is my favorite game of all time and the sadest thing to happen in video game history, for me, is the cancellation of the rest of the Advent Trilogy.… Expand

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2. WillM.

   8

   Overall, this game is excellent, but the lack of varied gameplay, enemies (only two different types of enemies: Seekers and some special bosses), and a short game bring it down, but not much. The story is excellently-done and the new "flick targeting" works extremely well. There were only frame rate problems when there was a lot of enemies but really I needed to figure out what was going on also. Another thing was that the first-person mode was horrible to control and Majesco, where the hell is my million dollars?… Expand

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3. AlexD

   7

   Starts out wonderfully - the opening scenes are as big and beautifuly as 2001 A Space Oddity. But the extensive tedious combat is simply button mashing devoid of tactics. Driving the Scythe vehicle (think: Halo Warthog) is unsatifying and frustrating. I think they may have been a resonable story in there somewhere but it's obscured by lousy gameplay mechanics. IMO, Fire Warrior on the PS2 is a much better game. I'll rate AR a lucky 7 'cos I believe the developers tried hard but were hampered by some bad design decisions.… Expand

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4. Elijah

   4

   Simply put Advent Rising is massively dissapointing. I was very excited about finally playing this game and hoped Orson Scott Card's involvement would make a difference, was i ever wrong. The story was no were near as good as i thought it would be. The way the action gets started is quite stupid. Good aliens meet with "amazing" humans regret to inform them that there all going to be killed in a day or two and that there sorry. Humans go oh well and leave and the main character says "Well except for finding out the human race is doomed i'd say that went well" HA HA HA that's clever! And there's a lot more stupid lines to but i wouldn't want to ruin the game for you. Then true predictable fashion the "Seekers" show up out of nowhere and start blowing shit up, real tantalizing. Then the fight begins! The flaws with game besides the story hmmm this could take awhile. For one thing the graphics are mediocore and the character models are terrible and incredibly repetive. You can duel wield weapons and have a fun time holding the trigger button until the "seekers" die. The aiming system is stupid and will cause frustration. The powers you get help a little bit but your basically doing the same thing throughout the whole game and it's really not very difficult at all once you get your powers. The vehicle controls are horrendous and you'll often find yourself driving off mountains and falling in rivers constantly and flipping over every other second. Advent Rising is a massive letdown on every level in fact the only thing i like about the game was the music. Advent Rising isn't worth buying even from the bargain bin. I don't know if the sequel could possibly fix all of Advent's problems.… Expand

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