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Bionicle: The Game |
| Product DescriptionBionicle The Game takes you to the mythical island of Mata Nui, where you'll help save it from the evils that threaten it! Collect power-ups and build Bionicle mechanisms to help you through this quest -- and become a legend in the time before time!ReviewsThis was delivered fast and in great shape My granson loves it
Transaction was easy I give this sealer 100percent
I got this games for $4.99 and it still was not worth it. It is one of those cheap carbon copy games that simply
maps the Bionicle images on to crappy unimaginative and poorly designed game play. I expected better from
Lego, that they would have made an effort to have somebody produce a quality product. The game is short, yet still manages
to make itself tedious. Its a minimum effort mass market get it out there quick and milk as much money with the least amount
of effort video game that appears so often now. This email took more thought and effort to create than the Bionicle game.
It will just frustrate young users and adults who have to play the game for them.
Oh wow, where to begin. I guess I should flat out say this game was very very disappointing and probably not worth even the 12.99 I paid for it, but at the time I figured, what the hey, I used to be obsessed with those little LEGO toys when I was a kid, maybe this videogame will be a way to... I dunno, go back to that time without actually playing with LEGOs... as I don't play with LEGOs anymore, thought I should clarify that. When I was in Game Stop on this faitful day... not even 4 days ago, I'd like to point out, it was a decision between this, Xenosaga, or Kya, and I have to say I made the WRONG decision.
I guess we'll start with the good. The game was modestly fun to play through, with each level varying in not only outward appearance, but also the way you go about winning it, whether it be snowboading with the Toa of ice or riding a crazy mine cart thing through an expansive cave; fun, maybe immature fun that should be aimed at little kids, but fun all the same. Also, a few of the normal enemy battles can test your skill just a tad, trying to shoot down 3 or 4 of those dragonfly enemies while deflecting their attacks to refuel energy needed for yours. That's about the extent of the possitive though.
Now the negatives... and boy do they outweigh everything else. First of all, and I know this has been said before, the game is too freakin' short! I bought this game on New Year's day, and here I am writing a review on the 5th (I don't review the games until I've beaten them). What's more, is this isn't even the only game I've been playing for the 4 day period, so I might have only put say... 2 or 3 hours into beating it. Secondly, for the most part, there were many unsatisfying and misleading aspets of this game. For one thing, you may get to be all the Toa, but with the exception of maybe one ability (the toa or air can glide), you basically have all the same moves. Despite the fact that Onua has two drills on his hands, Lewa duel wields swords, and Gali has those shovel shaped weapons, you don't get to use any of them. No, all you get to use is the standard "elemental blast" which all the toas have, only in different colors (oh boy). Also, and this ties into why the game is so short, alot of the concepts aren't taken very far. For example, the Bohrak Kal, which are supposed to be a huge elite squad of Bohrak enemies, only take up one level, and then poof, moving on to the next big set of enemies that will take me like... 3 minutes to beat. Another example of this would be the random changing into the toa nuva after the second level; if they wanted to lengthen the game, why not have 6 levels, one with each toa, and then 6 more as the toa nuva, that would at least make 12 (As it is the game only has 8 levels, some of which take less than 15 minutes to complete). A contributing factor to the shortness of the game might be the difficulty level, since for the most part, all the levels are very easy, especially the bosses. I found myself saying "that's it?" quite alot when playing the bosses at the end of levels, because it seems like just when they're getting warmed up, they die (The best example of this is when you're Onua Nuva and the way to beat the boss requires nothing but pushing a few rocks a good 5 feet onto a circle pad). Even the final boss took me less than 10 minutes to beat... way too easy. And what's worse? If it's not too easy, it's insanely difficult. I can't tell you how frustrating the stupid lava surfing level is, it was near impossible for me, but maybe I'm just not too good with that. As a final thought, there's pretty much no plot to this, it's just "Oh no, there goes a Bohrak, let's chase it!" then later, "Oh no, there goes a Rakshi, let's chase it!" Collecting light crystals is also very pointless and effects the storyline in abesolutely no way whatsoever.
All in all, HUGE, and I mean MASSIVE, waste of money. I can't justify buying this, and I can't even recomend renting it, although if you do you'll no doubt have time to do everything this short game has in it and still have about three days left until it's due back at your local Blockbuster. Bottom line, buy something else, anything else, but if you're looking for recomendations, the new Ratchet and Clank game is quite fun. (Although I haven't beat it yet so there isn't a review for it, but there will be sooner or later)
"okay" so this game has gotten crappy reviews but after playing it i only have one complaint: in the trailers it looks like you pick a toa play him (or her) through toa olda to toa nuva and then play the others and then get takanunva for one last showdown with makuta. but levels are fixed to certain toa/ toa nuva. about the graphics i think that they give a different view of each toa if you cou could only play them it would be an excellant game :)
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