Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit

THE GOOD:
High-speed gameplay... no, really, you do go... relatively fast, I guess. The pre-rendered cutscenes are pretty awesome.

THE BAD:
Unresponsive controls. Faulty lock-on system almost never focuses on your target. Hollow enemy AI. Faulty collision maps. Repetitiveness. Horrifyingly bad voice acting. Cluttered/useless HUD.

SUMMARY:
Being a Gamestop employee, I get the privilege of checking out game titles that are not high in demand. I saw Murakumo: RMP on a Gamestop shelf about three years ago. Not having an Xbox to play it on, I've been wanting the game since. The concept is awesome: high-speed, high-octane chases through soaring cityscapes as you try to eliminate a designated target. The released stills looked pretty promising and the mech designs show much love.

Looks can be deceiving.

I had the "pleasure" of checking this game out last night after seeing it on our "USED" shelf....

Well the graphics are tight, and the designers had the right idea, but as soon as they turned it into a "chase one enemy for no apparent reason, ignore the others and if they get too far away from you, you lose. If they self-destruct you lose." There is realy no reason why it could not have become a sweet game. Yeah, you travel fast, but that is IT. None of the Mech you can choose from are very powerful, and are EXTREMELY inaccurate. I had this game for a grand total of 1 hour and had to take it back. The voice acting is clearly phony. The rest of the game isn't bad though. The menus are cool.... If the designers had just turned this into a cusomizable, mech shoot 'em up game, like Phantom Crash, it would have been a much better game. And its basically the same thing. Level after level its just chasing 1 enemy until you died, ran out of ammo, they self-destructed, or the all-too-common, they got away.