Massive Disappointments

I loved the original metal gear solid and having played the demo that came with Zone of the Enders I was waiting outside HMV on the morning MGS2 was released. I took it back the next day. What is the point of making one of the most engrossing and detailed game worlds if you take your players out of it every 10 minutes and force them to watch some of the worst acted, awfully scripted gibberish? I have since mellowed on the MGS2 question and I re-bought it a couple of years ago.

When I first played Devil May Cry I was convinced it was the best game that had ever been made. So you can imagine my disappointment when I got home and fired up this half-arsed abortion of a sequel. I think this is the only game I've ever bought that I actually took back the SAME day I bought it. Still, at least they made up for it with DMC3.

Hands up if you've ever bought a game on the promise of "revolutionary" gameplay or visuals. Yep, me too. Back in the Amiga 500 days, Rise was billed as the next step in one on one beat-em-ups. It was. Unfortunately it was a pretty large step backward. New fancy graphics don't mean much alongside gameplay that made IK+ on the ZX Spectrum seem like Virtua Fighter 4.

Oh God. Kill me. I hate it, I'm sorry. I know millions of people love it and I really enjoyed FFVII and recently bought FFXII but this was so dull I used to play it deliberately when I couldn't sleep.

This by all rights is a really really good game. Trouble is that despite reading a couple of reviews before I bought it, I somehow didn't realise it wasn't all realtime. I thought I was buying Star Wars' answer to Zelda. Bugger.