Customer Reviews

D2

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

This game is not what I expected, an I mean this in a good way.I really enjoyed this game.The storyline is superb. The graphics are great! I found myself playing late at night. I couldn't put the game down! The Movies in the game are what surprised me most of all some were heart melting, Scary, Sad, and funny, but all were Awesome. The ending was worth the 4-disc wait! To all Resident Evil fans (like me) I would buy/rent this game. At least take a try at it. If you buy it its worth the money. The only thing that I would con about is that when you return to a spot were you had just killed a monster, they come back, no matter where you are or, how many times you return! Overall I think this is the prefect Dreamcast game!

Well, let me tell you this first. Those ppl @ WARP are great. They know how to tell a great story. And their games are almost always unique and new. Now having said that I would like to add some comments on this one.

First of all, why the hell did they pull out that tentacle sex scene from the original Japanese D2? With a heroine like Laura(who's also been the heroine of WARP's other game like D and Enemy Zero), it's a shame that they've taken that out. Besides, isn't this rated mature already? Who would get offended by such small scene? At least they left the shower scene intact in Enemy Zero.

Now the second thing I didn't like about this one is that the voice and the cinema is not really synched very good. I don't think it's due to the traslation from Japanese to English but it was a merely some oversight of programmers. Wish they could patch this so that the voice and the movie go together.

One more thing about the movie is that Laura is muted in the cinematics... Except a brief grunts and uh?s and ummm...s she remains silent throughout the game. So basically, your heroine doesn't say much... or none as a matter of fact.

And the actual gameplay part is somewhat weaker than the other two games from WARP. All you do is stand still, aim, and shoot. Enemies are not too strong and since you can easily replenish your health by eating meat or applying first aid spray, it's very unlikely that you are going to die. Speaking of meat, you'd get meat by shooting some animals, a la Deerhunter style. But after shooting down some hundreds(you don't need to but I did that only for fun of it) or so, it gets boring quickly.

Now some very good part of this game.

Well, it's got very good graphics and very well choreographed cut scenes. Voice acting isn't too bad and the story it unfolds is truly a masterpiece. Also eerie music is simply top notch except the fact that some of piano pieces brought me all those painful memories from Enemy Zero... After playing Enemy Zero, the piano isn't my favorite musical instrument any more.

In conclusion, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone but to dedicated WARP fans or any one who has finished RECV and waiting anxiously for Devil May Cry or Silent Hill 2. Or anyone with time and patience who likes to sit back and watch movies( a long one) and playes games occasionally. Thanks to Amazon.com you can get this one for very good price and even if you are not one of those ppl mentioned above, with that price you should give this 4 GDs a spin or two.

D2 didn't wow the world when it came out. It's long gone now but here's my review anyway. You play as Laura Parton, survivor of a plane crash in the freezing wastelands of northern Canada. There are a few other survivors but unfortunately some of them have mutated into green plant type monsters. You need to find help, avoid monsters and work out what caused that plane to crash.

Playing D2 is like watching a very, VERY slow movie. It's really one long interactive cut scene with breaks when you need to do something to start the next one. All Laura really does is move about in 1st person mode and press a button to interact with something in front of her. Every interaction causes a little cut scene to play. This could be picking up a healing aid, looking at somebody who is asleep (and not going to answer you), or opeing a door. It looks daft, and after the first 5 minutes it gets quite tiresome. This is how the game plays out in nearly every inside environment. Outside, things change a bit. We leap into glorious 3rd person view and watch Laura trudge around the snow. Now, the mountain landscapes you have to cross are actually pretty amazing. They do make you feel cold, and the sound of snow underfoot is wonderfully realistic. Unfortunately Laura also has to fight monsters outside and this is a bit more clumsy. Again, we go back to 1st person for fighting and it's very, nay almost impossible to fight without getting hit, because Laura does not MOVE when she's in a battle! Luckily healing items are plentiful and seemingly infinite.

There are bosses that are quite fun. And there are some gruesome sights to see, some of which are very adult orientated. But sadly, some of the cut scenes are EXTREMELY long, with lots and lots of spoken dialogue. The lip-synching is diabolical, so these can become quite a chore to sit through. What's really daft is that Laura herself never speaks. She has all the other characters babbling straight at her, and merely grunts, sighs or makes little tuts or intakes of breath in response. If I had to talk to someone like while trapped in freezing cold cabins surrounded by monsters that I would be ready to slap them round the face after the first hour.

But all in all, I enjoyed it. Laura does have a real mystery to unfold, and some of the sights you will see are pretty unbelieveable - just wait until near the end where you have to destroy a super computer that talks to you with a female voice...you'll know what I mean. Talk about sexual imagery!!

Anyway it's all very ponderous and mysterious. Probably far too serious for it's own good. But at the end, I did feel like I had been asked to follow a very personal journey dreamed up by he game producers. They certainly had a unique take on gaming. D2 might be slow and cumbersome at times but it does have atmosphere and a heart.

A game which involves a mute waif battling space flowers interspersed with Oregon Trail-like hunting interludes may not be for everyone. The best feature is the creepy and tense atmosphere this game oozes, due mainly to it's slick graphics. I also enjoyed the strange, Sam Raimi inspired boss encounters that pepper the game experience. My favorite so far was the flight attendant spewing airline cliches and vomit while flinging Laura (the protagonist) through the air. Unfortunate qualities include extremely bad dubbing (with many instances of gums flapping without any speech at all) and lots of embaressing "tentacle" monsters (wonder what they symbolize?). I would suggest keeping your girl friends away unless you want them to think you are a pervert. Overall though, it has kept me playing late into the night for the last few days, which says alot (I get bored really easily). If you like Pete Jackson or Sam Raimi movies(Bad Taste, Dead Alive, Evil Dead) you'll probably enjoy the quirkiness and plentiful gore. Also, this is the first game for a console I can think of that features nudity (a completly random topless scene on the second disc). On the other hand, if you're expecting serious horror (like Resident Evil) you are bound to be dissapointed.

D2 is more than a simple game, and where Kenji Eno partly failed in his previous attempts at the genre, in the original D (3DO, Saturn & Playstation) and its pseudo-sequel Enemy Zero (Saturn), he makes up for it in D2. While some may try to classify this as a survival horror game, D2, like D & EO, is really an old-school point and click graphic adventure, only in this case held together by random, RPG-like battle encounters, which handle like a first-person shooter. The story this time around again follows WARP's heroine, Laura, only this time she is one of the few survivors of a plane crash deep in the frozen tundra. Once again, she must foil the evil that has befallen her, an ancient demon of sorts that is being awoke for the earth's demise.

I'm not going to even try to get into the story, which explains the multi-GD length of the game, because suffice to say, it's weird (any veteran of Eno's games will know this). The graphic adventure portion of the game is handled in the usual D style, while the action sequences are brief enough not to grate too much, despite their repetitive nature. The voice acting is good enough I suppose, with no one character really getting on my nerves. This is a good one if you have the time...

Not bad for the price, this adventure game is fairly easy for the experienced gamer. Its real strength is in the setting (a snowy Canadian landscape) and the characters, who are all developed over frequent cut-scenes. If anything, the game is pretty talky, and at times you'll do anything to get back to the action. A moderate recommendation to fans of the survival horror genre; all others should probably steer clear.

This game has blocky and awkward cinematics and the gameplay isn't much better. I played this game for about 4 hours or so and then gave up on it. Do yourself a favor and skip this one unless you're a die hard survival horror fan. -Osiris Z

As the editor mentions, it is very tedious and repitious. You will find a monster in the exact same spot where you had previously killed another one. And you can not bypass any of the monsters, you have to fight all of them.

One good thing, you'll get to fight a topless woman who has alien tenticles protrouding from her stomach. I guess that's a good enough reason to buy a video game, right ?!

The game controls in this game are odd.You play a third person view like tomb raider, but when a battle comes up it shifts to first person.Only 3 aliens come at you at the most and the minimum is 1.The aliens pop out of the snow about every 10 steps so it's sort of alarming at first but after a while it gets on your nerves.The game has a lot of backtracking where you have to find a cabin with someone in it to talk to.You walk the entire game except for a part where you drive a snowmobile.The game is finding out what happened to the rest of the passengers on your crashed flight and what became of the hijackers after the meteor struck the plane's wing.You find at the beginning of the game that one hijacker bleeds green blood and it appears somehow they became aliens, but you don't know what happened to the rest of the passengers, did they share the same fate?The graphics are wonderful and the game itself isn't that bad except it can get boring or annoying and it is a long game(spanning 4 disks)This game is worth the money.

I really enjoy RPGs, and when I first saw this game, I was excited when I saw it was a 4 CD game! Then I played it. First of all, the monster encounters were terrible. Personally I enjoy games where you at least can see the monster coming (Tomb Raider), or at least it's a surprise when they show up (Resident Evil). With D2, as soon as I heard my Dreamcast console warm up, I knew I was about to meet up with a monster. Then, it thrusts you into first person mode and you can't run away! All you can do is aim and shoot. Second, the puzzles were easier than first grade math. Third, I forced myself to play to the end (which was fairly easy to get to) and it was extremely anti-climactic. Storywise I felt forced from situation to situation. The only positive I can say is that the graphics were nice eyecandy (although I've been more scared of the mosters in either Resident Evil or even Quake). I enjoyed riding the snowmobile around. That's it. I've heard that the graphics were a lot more hard-core in the Japanese version. If only they hadn't tampered with it, maybe it would have made D2 worth owning.