OMG! BOMBERMAN: ACT ZERO IS THE BEST GAME EVER............ Just Kidding.

User Rating: 5.7 | Bomberman: Act Zero X360
Bomberman: Act Zero is the latest entry in the Bomberman series but it takes some turns that will definetly disapoint long time fans of the series. Its definetly not traditional Bomberman because the colorful characters and backgrounds are gone and have been replaced by ugly characters wearing ugly armor. The story in Bomberman: Act Zero is pretty incredible you play as either a female or male character and then get to choose from one of eight different colors and then have to make it through 99 stages to escape from an evil training facility where they turn humans into Bombermen and women. If you can make it through all 99 stages in one sitting which is the only way to do it because of the lack of a save system your character will escape from the facility and go do whatever it wants to. However making it through all 99 stages is near impossible because you have one life.

The actual gameplay in Bomberman: Act Zero is pretty crummy if you play the single-player modes. You run around a small arena filled with block some breakable some not and drop bombs trying to destroy blocks and your enemies. There are two different single player modes available. The traditional standard mode which gives you a view of the whole arena and goes by one hit kill rules. The other mode is the newly added FPB mode which stands for First Person Bomber. But this mode isn't first person its more like a behind the head mode with a really crappy camera. The other thing that is different about this mode is that you have a health bar so it usually takes about two to three hits to kill someone making it so if you have full health you can walk straight into a bomb and you won't die. The enemy A.I. In the single player modes isn't very good in the first five levels the enemies are incredibly stupid and will most likely kill themselves. But as soon as you get to level 6 the enemies all of a sudden get really tough. The only thing really saving Bomberman: Act Zero from being absolutely terrible is the online multiplayer. It supports up to eight people but nobody plays this game so you'll only have three people usually. But if you can find enough people the game is surprisingly fun and very crazy.

The graphics in Bomberman: Act Zero are terrible. They look like a last-gen game and it isn't what Bomberman's supposed to look like. instead of the cute colorful graphics that made the game more appealing you get these dark rooms with boring dark characters that look terrible.

The sound is absoutely positively terrible. The voice acting consists of a single robotic voice telling you when you've beating a level or gained a power-up. The sound-effects are virtually non-existent. And the sound track consists of one small track looping over and over again.

Bomberman: Act Zero's value isn't that bad the single player modes get boring after about thirty minutes but the multiplayer gives hours of endless fun if you have enough people to play it with. Another nice thing about Act Zero is that like any other 360 game it has achievements. But instead of having 1,000 points the game has 1,020 points. But even the person ranked number one on the leaderboards only has 770 points from this game.

All in all Bomberman: Act Zero is a bad game but it isn't as bad as everybody makes it sound and if you can find enough people to play with online it can provide quite a lot of good fun.

~LOZFAN6537