I totally forgot I posted this here my bad. Anyways I have been playing this game for over a week and I will toss me review up here right now.
GraphicsThe are great, cartoony, but they work very well. It runs at about 30 FPS (sometimes better) and bogs down a little with the rain and explosions and such but 90% of the slowdown takes place offline. The facial animations are great and the character models are top notch, all 150+ of them.
Gameplay I love it, if you played TimeSplitters 2 you pretty much now what you are in for besides the whole being on Live thing and the fact that this game has an awesome story mode. I always forget when I play the TS games that there is no jump button and it kind of annoys me at first but I got used to it and realized, you don't need it too much. Anyways, it plays great, kinda like Perfect Dark + Halo = TimeSplitters, it's quirky and fun and takes a little to get used to but it's a game with so much to offer you can't really go wrong.
SoundDon't expect Halo or Ghost Recon 2 quality sound here but it gets the job done. You can't hear everything that is going on, like footsteps and and the such, but the important stuff is there. The music is mostly stuff you have heard before (some of it was actually rehashed from other games and shows, one song they actually borrowed from the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer game, which ironically borrowed it from X-Files the show), but it works very well. The big dissappointment hear is the fact that there is no custom soundtrack, but I guess you can't have everything.
MulitplayerAh, good times, this game has such great multiplayer potential, which is sad since most of it is held back by the publisher EA. The EA servers have serious problem handling Live coding, the second more then 1 or 2 people drop within seconds of each other your Xbox locks up (It's not just mine either I can name 4 other people this happens to also), I haven't been on for a day or so, so this might even be fixed while you read this. Also I have read several reports of maps not being uploaded right from the EA servers and freezing but that's a whole other sack of coal. When you do find a good game it's great fun, rockets flying, monkey's and zombies and zombie monkeys running around blowing the crap outta each other. Once the big stuff gets fixed this game will be great.
Map MakerThis is a great addition to all of Xbox Live, you can make ur own damn mpas, upload them into the EA servers, and download them for free. Now the map maker is very bare bones, the give you and assortment of rooms, objects, items, and even skins, to use to make your own map which is great but there is a big problem with size. I actually was trying to make a remake of the Resident Evil 2 Police station and was only able to fit the first floor and about 2 rooms on the second floor before it completely filled up, also abojects for some reason take up an obscene amount of space and you cannot place them against walls or other objects, just in the center of the room. Still, I love making great maps and sharing them with my freinds so that is a deffinite
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OverallThis game is fantastic and I encourage every FPS fan to by it.
9.2/10