Looks great!sounds great,plays great, but lacks a soul!

User Rating: 9.2 | Final Fantasy XII PS2
First the good things:
Graphics:the best looking PS2 game yet!since the ps3 is already out, i guess it will not get better than this!
Sound: Great OST!!!the tracks fit perfactly into the scenary,BUT they sound a little bit digital (reminds me of Zelda-Ocarina of Time for the N64)
Gameplay:the open combat system is a great new addition to the FF series.the battles are a lot faster and dont interrupt the exploration of the world!
Dimension of Ivalice: the world is HUGE.not just the world itself but the places you get to see are impressive Free camera control: thanks to the camera control you realy get to see how huge the buildigs are.
Cutscenes and Emotion expression!
VOICES:this is by far the best voice acting in al game history!(No exaggeration) It evan sounds better than the orignal japanise voiceacting(the ***. version contains realy what you would expect for a anime/ game of this type:cliche) BUt the engl. version is very unique!unique,recognizable voices,different acsents,it al feels natural!GREAT

the not so good things:
Total Lack of Character motivation:so there are these 6 people,al looking great,al TOGETHER on a journy to defeat the empire!but why?why these 6(ok,i get the princess and her bodyguard,but what about the rest)specially the hero van is totally out of place!
Not enough Cutscenes!Ingame graphics and prerendered!
Short storry whithout an underlying plot! they travel from town to town kind of randomly!
All the characters ,main and side,lack a back story! No real message:the other FF games had messages like solitude sucks, care for the planet!(FF7),care fore friends and family (FF8),Love,friendship,(FF10 & 10-2)

There was so much potential in this game, great intentions with the character and the storry but it just feels unfinished!