Rent it before believing all the bad reviews. Its worth your time, and I wouldn't let this gem slide by.
Controls: I was tring to find what people were complaining about and simply could not. It flys like its supposed too. Unless the reviewers were laying on their backs trying to fly then I can see that being a problem. THE ONLY issue I have with the controls was this, the 180 degree turn and quick speed burst were almost the same motion. Like whipping up and down on the rope of a horse to gettie up. 90% of the time I could speed burst just fine. At moments of chaos I would get in a tight scenario and forget this easy moment and end up doing a 180 turn instead of speed burst. Oh noo's give it a 4.5 for that. Really, this is ONE game to not pass judgement on-to until you actually play it. I'm being serious, its really not that bad.
Graphics: Yea, during moments with lots on screen and when you decide to turn hard you receive the occasional screen tear. But its not unbearable and frankly God of War 2 had it and I don't care. Why didn't they bash GoW 2 for this? Other then that, The graphics are, well, Better then Gears of War. I'm sorry it just is. But then their are moments were it isn't better. The first two missions are not good show cases for this game at all. My favorite stage is I believe the 7th were you avoid enemy spot lights at night. Talk about an awesome looking map. Of course the Snow map after that reminded me of Hoth in Starwars. Riding the Dragon: Why playing, something about it just felt EPIC, and I don't know why. It was just alot of fun throwing fireballs and having a flamethrower at anytime. Their was a couple of ways to kill other drags.
1.) Fly into them hitting O
2.) spit fire balls at them (only works on ice dragons)
3.) or hit Triangle to fight them. Which by the way is the only way to gain health is if you win a fight. The fight scenes were sweet plus they kept you on edge cause each could kill you. For me it was block, attack, block, attack till they died.
4.) (I hated this one) it would put you side by side with the dragon enemy and you shift the controller left to right to side swipe them. Really gay honestly.
5.) Then lastly, was dramatic kill scenes were you would have to shift the controller to jump on their dragon. tap left on analog to knock off their rider. then hit something else to jump off the enemy dragon. Fun, but some times a bit to hard.
I forgot to mention the targeting system that got bashed. What the heck is wrong with it? Oh noo's their is so many enemies on screen to lock on to. When in the game did it matter which enemy was to be killed when? I just held L1 down and when it lit red. I'd kill, simple enough. Sure if you have a certain enemy you want dead its rather hard. But it only locks on to dragons close by and most of the time dragons fly in flocks like birds so you can combo them out of the sky as well. Its too easy.
I'm rated this a 8.0 for feeling a tiny bit rushed. But man I loved it.