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Seven Samurai 20XX

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Don't buy this game. This is really a bad game. During the role playing part you can't save in the levels, you have to wait until you complete the chapter, and that can take well over an hour. Because its so easy to get lost. Plus during the combat the enemy characters move in slow motion. The game counts your hit, and I had a hit count of over 100, and I went over 50 plenty of times. Who ever came up with enemy characters of this game needs to be fired. You really start to dislike your character also. This game doesn't do the movie any justice.

Seven Samurai 20XX PS2 combined the efforts of Akira Kurosawa's estate, artist Moebius and author Marc Handler. It should have been at least good. Instead, it is surprisingly boring.

I love the Seven Samurai movie and have seen it many times. I'm also an avid fan of sci fi movies. This seemed like the perfect combination to me, to merge these two genres together. Instead, everything was "dumbed down" and the result does not do credit to either.

The game is in essence a button masher. Everyone I've shown this to has played without looking at the manual, simply by taking the controller and mashing buttons. Enemies around you fly into pieces, your samurai swords spin, and you finish the level. Then you move on to a new area which seems fairly similar to the previous one.

The voicing and dialogue is nowhere near the powerful reaches you find both in Seven Samurai and in many sci fi classics. Instead it is rather silly. You don't become fond of the characters at all as a result. Sometimes you wish your swords were a little more under your control, to take out whoever you wanted to (and not just the "enemies").

There's no real sense of achievement after wiping out entire fields of bad guys, and a sense of dread builds as you plod into the next area, sure that more of the same awaits. It's not that often that we hit a game that every member of the household dreads playing - usually at least ONE of enjoys a game enough to have fun playing their way through it to do the review. However, this is one that all of us felt was agony to have to keep playing. There's just so many other better games out there of this style.

Rating 2/5 for at least having smooth controls.

The movie this game is based on is probably my favorite movie of all time. The game does a pretty good job following the story with futuristic twists. At times the hordes of enemys get a little old but its a good time to practice moves. As far as saving goes, I am pretty sure the game saves your place every time it goes to a load screen, even though it does not advertise this it does. Who wants to quit in the middle of a chapter anyway? I found the game to be much like the movie once it was over I really wished it wasn't.

As far as game play goes I wish I had more control over the camera. That's about my only complaint.

I highly recommend this game, for its story line and game play. Its not an extremely hard game but after you beat normal you get a hard option.

If i had to do it again I wouldn't change anything . Defiantly buy.

hey if your like me and is not good at many games then this is a game four u there are a few bad things in this game like the saving u have to beat the chapter but then again if u havent seen the movie (like me)then the split screens when charter talk is great so if your looking for fun thats not a brain buster then i sugest this gameim adding to this review its still joe but ive just beat it and if i could give it 1000000000000 stars i would its great buy buy buy it its one of the best ive ever played hey disregard all the bad reviews and listen to mine its great heck im even gonna say buy the movie and i havent even saw it man i love this game!!!!!!!!!!! buy it :)