Hello, and welcome to the final chapter in my Eragon Week review trilogy. This is for the game.
Almost completely last-gen!
Please note that I am reviewing the Xbox 360 version of the game. I have no intent on getting the other versions just so I can review them, so suck it up!!!! Anyway, this game’s graphics are bad for 360 graphics. They look almost completely last gen. I swear Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland looked better! The characters’ hair looks like hay! Though, I must admit, whenever you hit enemies with arrows, arrows stick out of them, which is cool. I think this game’s graphics are so bad because its release was to (or did) coincide with the PS2 and Xbox versions. This would have looked okay on them.
Hacking and slashing with Eragon
characters. Not too bad.
The gameplay on this is okay. This game is set across 18 levels and one secret level. There are several combos that you can use to take down enemies and you can use your bow. There are also a few stages where you are flying on Saphira. This game is also quite fun. As for replay value, you might have to replay some levels to get some of the Secret Eggs, but after that, I don’t think you’ll have much motivation to play again, but I’m not sure, because I haven’t finished it. There might be some kind of cool replay mode…
Retells the movie with even more
changes from the book than the
movie had!!
Yeah, you heard right. This retells the story of the movie, but with a lot of changes. Sometimes it’s more faithful to the book than the movie (Eragon names his dragon Saphira because of her sapphire-like eyes), but sometimes has even more changes (“Reisa” is the first spell Eragon learns in the game, while in both the book AND the movie, the first spell he learned was “Brisingr”). And some of the dialogue is so cheesy I literally laugh at it (i.e. “Pain,” or “I regret nothiiiiiiiiiiiing!”).
Orchestra!
The music in this game is highly orchestral, which is good for a game with a fantasy setting. And who knows? Maybe Keep Holding On plays in the end like at the end of the movie!
T-Man’s Pros and Cons:
Pros:
+ Decent gameplay
+ Decent fun factor
+ Decently difficult
+ Good music
+ Some of the effects are nice
Cons:
- Graphics stink
- Little replay value that I know of
- Even more changes from the book than the movie!
- Some of the dialogue is extremely cheesy
Buy It/Rent It/Skip It/Smash It:
Big fans of the hack n’ slash genre can purchase this in good conscience. Others (especially fans of the book) should proceed with caution, because I haven’t seen a single good review for this game aside from my own. Se onr sverdar sitja hvass!
Rating: Pretty Good
Almost completely last-gen!
Please note that I am reviewing the Xbox 360 version of the game. I have no intent on getting the other versions just so I can review them, so suck it up!!!! Anyway, this game’s graphics are bad for 360 graphics. They look almost completely last gen. I swear Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland looked better! The characters’ hair looks like hay! Though, I must admit, whenever you hit enemies with arrows, arrows stick out of them, which is cool. I think this game’s graphics are so bad because its release was to (or did) coincide with the PS2 and Xbox versions. This would have looked okay on them.
Hacking and slashing with Eragon
characters. Not too bad.
The gameplay on this is okay. This game is set across 18 levels and one secret level. There are several combos that you can use to take down enemies and you can use your bow. There are also a few stages where you are flying on Saphira. This game is also quite fun. As for replay value, you might have to replay some levels to get some of the Secret Eggs, but after that, I don’t think you’ll have much motivation to play again, but I’m not sure, because I haven’t finished it. There might be some kind of cool replay mode…
Retells the movie with even more
changes from the book than the
movie had!!
Yeah, you heard right. This retells the story of the movie, but with a lot of changes. Sometimes it’s more faithful to the book than the movie (Eragon names his dragon Saphira because of her sapphire-like eyes), but sometimes has even more changes (“Reisa” is the first spell Eragon learns in the game, while in both the book AND the movie, the first spell he learned was “Brisingr”). And some of the dialogue is so cheesy I literally laugh at it (i.e. “Pain,” or “I regret nothiiiiiiiiiiiing!”).
Orchestra!
The music in this game is highly orchestral, which is good for a game with a fantasy setting. And who knows? Maybe Keep Holding On plays in the end like at the end of the movie!
T-Man’s Pros and Cons:
Pros:
+ Decent gameplay
+ Decent fun factor
+ Decently difficult
+ Good music
+ Some of the effects are nice
Cons:
- Graphics stink
- Little replay value that I know of
- Even more changes from the book than the movie!
- Some of the dialogue is extremely cheesy
Buy It/Rent It/Skip It/Smash It:
Big fans of the hack n’ slash genre can purchase this in good conscience. Others (especially fans of the book) should proceed with caution, because I haven’t seen a single good review for this game aside from my own. Se onr sverdar sitja hvass!
Rating: Pretty Good
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