Bionic Commando Rearmed.
Bionic Commando: Rearmed has been occupying my time rather forcefully as of late. For those of you who have read the reviews or are thinking about picking up the title, I wanted to give you a quick run down…and I wanted to test a new review format…that I am making up on the fly (something quick and dirty…I hate long winded reviews that recap the entire game summary and just go on for pages and pages. Serious, if anyone reads this, I would like to hear your feedbacahhhahahahaa….ahhh…almost had myself there…”if anyone reads this”…WOOO, calssic….NEWAIZ!).
ED NOTE: While writing this quick review, something dawned on me and I came up with a whole new way of doing reviews…something that I haven’t seen before on other sites. I will write the BC:RA review in one format and use the other for another game. Both formats need some serious tweaking but all in all, there might be something there. The goal is, after all, create a unique review style that is both entertaining and quick. I am not a main stream review outlet so there is no point to write like one, rather, I am an assuring nod or an emphatic shake to confirm or challenge what you have already learned from your outlet of choice and metacritic.com
What it is (A quick overview of the game; Definition):
Bionic commando is a faithful remake of the original NES game. If you loved the NES and Gameboy Color game, read on. If not, your ride ends here. Some people say this product stays “faithful”, I say this is a stright bionic second comming manafesting itself inside a new engine. This is oldschool.
How’s it presented? (Touch on graphics, music, story, and overall polish; Presentation)
Graphics are really clean especially for a XBLA/PSN title. It has a relatively low polygon build but the lighting and the 3D backgrounds more than make up for it.
As for the music, I am a huge fan of the original score. This game takes that and does quite a bit of remixing….some of it good…some pretty forgetable. All in all, I think they tried a bit too hard in this area and I would have prefered an updated score rather than a reimagined one.
Story is perfectly retro. Super Joe, your local army hero, gets captured and you have to go get him back from the evil red army. Red bad, blue and green good. It’s that simple. In the end, the Reds are trying to create a super weapon and you have to stop it…what is this super weapon? If you don’t know, it is epic and worth the price of admission to find out.
Polish is through and they intentionally left some of the oldschool annoynces in there for good measure (jumps blocked by enemies leading to cheap deaths…bullets off screen…etc). Again, if you can survie a classic game, these will go unnoticed. If your first game experence was Haloz….leave.
How does it Play? (This is all about game play and fun, the most critical; Interaction)
The thing that will really make or break this game for you is the controls. They are modeled very closely after the after the 8-bit original. This means that it is best to take this game on with the trusty D-pad….translation, GET THIS GAME FOR THE PS3!! Serious, the d-pad is horrid on the 360 and will make the game just that much more difficult…as if it needed help. No jump, no directional shooting, all the classic style is back.How hard is it? Harder than most things in modern gaming, eaiser than the original. You can take multiple shots before you die (1 shot death in the original), full health restore mid level, and the bosses, once you know what to do, are slow and usually take only one pattern cycle to beat. The game does have challenge rooms which will kick your ass and make the 360 owners cry. Needless to say, this is not a game you will beat first time through. Prepare to die….alot.
That being said, the game is really fun. Ingame multiple weapons switching, swinging is just as fun as it ever was, and level design will hold your intrest. Pitfalls? Wiretapping has been repalced with a “hacking” ball puzzle, which sucks (tries to do the bio shock “compete this mini game to hack” nonsese. It sucked then and it sucks now), not enough crazy swing manuvers required in game which I had expected, and the top down enemy encounters are just as much fun as they were in the original…as in not fun at all. Worst failing of all?
NO ONLINE MULTIPLAYER! This is the reason I got the 360 verion and because my dumbass didn’t read the fine print, I got stuck with a crap ass d-pad. That being said, there is multiplayer co-op and battlemode. I personally have not tried it since I have no real life friends and my girlfriend can’t hang. So I suspect it is tons of fun but just note, it is not online.
What you should do? (Now that you have the information, here is your course of action; Recommendation)
If you have any fond memories of the 8-bit era, get this game. This is the second best Bionic Commando out there (the frist best can be found on Gameboy Color http://www.gamespot.com/gbc/action/bioniccommando/). It is one of the best games out there on XBLA and PSN and it is more than worth your $10. All of its short commings are quickly overlooked and moved past. After that, come over to my place so I can finally try out this damn co-op mode.
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