The professional reviewers got it wrong. This is a good game.

User Rating: 8.5 | Advent Rising PC
By chetwebb | Review Date:
SINCE IT SEEMS TO BE STYLISH TO PAN 'ADVENT RISING' LET'S START WITH WHAT COULD BE BETTER: 1) An occasional save point goes amuck. For example you might lose a vehicle you had at the time of the save point. Fortunately, this does not happen often and if it does the gamer can restart the level. Restarting is not as bad as it may seem since the game generally has short segments. 2) The controls can be awkward, particularly for vehicles, but you get used to them. THAT'S ABOUT IT SO WHAT'S GOOD? 1) The graphics are excellent and the cut scenes are ample. The player is often rewarded with a seamless cut scene following an interesting segment. The cinematics move the story along and are quite a pleasure to watch. 2) The segments vary quite a bit. You can fall out of a space vehicle in one, fight in open terrain in another, battle it out in a completely unique alien city, and struggle with hordes of foes on the hull of an enemy spaceship. 3) Battle is sometimes easy and at other times frenetic, particularly as the game progresses. 4) After a slow (not too slow) opening the game is fast paced moving along in surprising ways from one cut scene to another. 5) The characters are likable. The story is interesting. If you read a lot of science fiction, as I do, it steals amply from some of the best writers in the genre. Why this is bad, I don't know! 6) The game is smooth. It doesn't crash or even stutter. I understand the X-Box version had problems. I wonder if some reviewers spent too little time with the PC version. If you like Sci-Fi, a good story, lot's of cut scenes, and plenty of action Advent Rising is a steal at $29.95.

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