Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter

THE GOOD:
Lots and lots of sniping action

THE BAD:
The space-shooting parts, no multiplayer

SUMMARY:
Mace Griffin isn't a horrible first-person shooter, but it's numerous rough edges wear you down over time. It's tough to overlook its frequent pauses for loading, brain-dead enemies, unrealistic animations, and repetetive graphics. Once you've been in a new environment for five minutes, you've basically seen about every grate, wall, door, and enemy you're going to see for the next hour. The space-shooting sections could have broken up the first-person shooting action well, but the time limits the game imposes(and lack of a save-anywhere function) mostly just make them annoying. Multimplayer splitscreen or online modes could've helped round out the game but Mace has neither.
Considering the game's small selection of dumb enemies, the firefights are surprisingly enjoyable--but the gameplay still gets tedious. Most levels follow the same...

THE GOOD:
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THE BAD:
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SUMMARY:
This reminds me of Tachyon: The Fringe. Wrongfully accused, voice by a famous actor (Bruce Campell), seek revenge. Only Mace Griffins voice is by Henry Rollins and you get to walk around. Or to be more accurate you get to use space ships. It has a not too shabby storyline, the graphics ain't bad, and its got weapons. The only thing is that those weapons suck, and when you finally find a good one, there is only a little ammo. I was confused a few times, and the space combat is hard. Really what po'ed me about this game was that it is just not special! It was supposed to be a great game, but I find out that the space combat is boring and frustrating, and the rest of the game is nothing special. The graphics are nothing to be sneezed at but hi-res environments and detailed enemies just don't cut it. If you have Halo, you've basically played Mace Griffin. That is the feeling I get through the whole game; "Oh my god...

THE GOOD:
The storyline, the missions, the weapons, the sound, the feel, controls, graphics, vibrations, enemy AI...etc!

THE BAD:
The CG cutscenes...but really who cares, just press Y!

SUMMARY:
Well the long awaited Mace Griffin has finlly landed and I was fortunate enough to play through a couple of missions, therefore granting you guys a sneak peek at this exciting and hard hitting game! The story that Mace Griffin tells is not one that is unfamiliar...revenge. Sure we've seen it all before, and at first you're thinking, ah well. But once you play through that part of the story, and once you go through the mission parts, feeling the attitude and tension that Mace(for some reason I keep on wanting to call it Max Griffin), brings, you can't help wanting to play through, just to see what happens next. The games seamless transition from space flight/combat to the more natural style of FPS gaming is done wonderfully, even if your a crappy flyer...