Riddled with frustration & confusion Aeon pulls out of sub-mediocrity with stylish good looks.

User Rating: 5.5 | Aeon Flux XBOX
By thesineater | Review Date:
Hmmm...where do I begin? O.K. First off, this game is a confusing mess of glitchy programming, frustrating controls, and an incoherent story. It somehow still manages to pull off a futuristic, science-fiction feel with acrobatic style. You may be wondering how can a game like Aeon sound cool but have a screwed up story line? Well, let me be the first to tell you, the MTV Aeon flux series hardly ever made any sense, so in a way the game is true to form. Well, except for the fact that she is a lot more serious in the movie/game than the animated series. Anyway, like I was saying Aeon Flux is a confusing mess. You start out in some dumb battle/fashion competition and the story just gets plain bad from there. There is no consistency and you may easily lose track of why you are doing what you are doing. In fact, you may as well ignore the story all together.

Oh my lord this game needs a lock-on button bad! Being without this makes the game controls so damn frustrating. Sometimes you’ll fight an enemy only to end up swinging at the air. Oh and did I mention that the A.I. can take advantage of this? So, yes the game can even be cheap at times, which makes dying a constant thing. Then there’s the dumb 3-D ball rolling crap you have to perform using the already sloppy controls.

Knowing where to go next can even be a freakin’ chore. Personally speaking I had to take a few flying death leaps just to figure out where to go next. This is not good when you have Aeon’s acrobatic momentum going in the middle of a mission. I will say ,however, a lot of the acrobatic portions work well in the game. The glitches and slight collision detection errors make you feel like your playing BloodRayne one again.

What this game does do well is look like a solid action/science-fiction game. It’s packed with futuristic detail and you may feel that there is too much to look at. All of Aeon’s acrobatic/ agile movements feel right (especially the bungee grapple) but you may be disappointed that the messy controls won’t let you look as cool as you think you should performing them. None the less the missions and action are good enough that you overlook some of its bad points just to play a little longer. Here’s the good, bad and ugly:

Good: Nice visuals, cool moves to pull-off, decent action

Bad: Frustrating controls, dumb story, cheap A.I., no lock-on button, swinging difficulty, stupid “3-D marble madness” segments and glitches.

Ugly: I don’t care what any of the Aeon Flux fanboy sites say! The MTV Aeon Flux art by Peter Chung was UGLY! (Peter Chung’s) Aeon Flux is sexy my a$#!

Final Word: Aeon Flux is not a bad movie-to-game adaptation. It looks good but plays like BloodRayne 1.5. Still, if you can forgive its confusing feel and sloppy control, check it out for a weekend. Then kick it out like your ugly morning-after-one-night-stand bed buddy!

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