Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

[Valdarez]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

Yes, there's an install. Back of the box says 3.5GB, but it's half that in the game utility.

Just timed the last chapter I played through on load time, was roughly 45 seconds. Not sure if that was slower/faster than the others. There's no install on the 360, and even if there were, there's usually only a 10 to 20% speed increase in load times. There's a comparison in speed differences from Fable II on one of my rant blogs on GameSpot if anyone is interested in general game speed ups on load times on the XBox 360 --> http://www.gamespot.com/users/valdar...m-100-25573817

[Valdarez]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

Found a nice little bug on Chapter 8. There's a fairly large fight of mechs at the Windmill. When they call for reinforcements, if you don't kill the guy calling, it will cut to a scene of the reinforcements arriving. During that time it will drop your guard (RT on 360) and defense, effectively allowing the other mechs to attack you and get in a free couple of hits. I'm playing on hard difficulty, have my health fully max'd, and it would drop it by about 1/3rd overall each time. Died twice there each time until I realized the 2nd time what was happening. 3rd time, made sure I had full health, and sure enough, got hit a couple of times even though I was holding RT/defense both before and after the cut scene. Just a heads up for guys not wanting to play through it over and over again as it's one of the longer fights in the game thus far.

[Burns11]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

I'm playing on PS3 and it never asked to install at all, and there's only 638MB of data in the Game Data Utility. Load times are very short so far, but I'm only 3 chapters in.

[The Chef]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

For those hoping to buy Enslaved this week, KMart is giving a $25 gaming coupon with every purchase! Coupon is good starting next Sunday for 45 days, so you could use that $25 on MOH, COD, SDvR 2011, EA MMA, Fallout:NV, etc.

Thanks for the heads-up. I rarely buy from K-Mart, so I wouldn't have known about that.

Picked up a copy at Kmart too. I'm going to have start buying games from them because of these sweet gaming coupons.

Gentleman, might I point you in the direction of my Kmart deals thread? Ive been updating the deals every week and it will list pretty much every video game deal they are offering so feel free to check there.

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...d-10-03-a.html

[Valdarez]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

Finished the game tonight. The last chapter was fairly fun, but the game/fighting felt really repetitive before it was over. There was finally one oh wow moment, but it came upon dying in a section.

Spoiler

When chasing after the dog, if you fail, he grabs Trip (the girl) and smacks her violently against the rock before tossing her into his mouth. Kind of like the way you kill a mouse before you feed it to a snake. Definitely caught me by surprise!

The hardest part of the game that I found were the chase scenes. Not sure if they were harder on the Hard difficulty or not, but you had to pretty much nail them nigh perfectly to complete successfully.

Still don't see how game sites are giving the game an 8.5 and up. It's a good game, but definitely not worth the $60. More along the lines of a $35 to $40 purchase if you plan on buying. Definitely worth renting.

Rating: 7.5
Buy/Rent: Strong Rent (Buy at $35 to $40 range)

[DickDalewood]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

Thanks for the impressions Val, this is one I definitely plan on picking up at some point down the road.... or perhaps asking for for my upcoming birthday in November, or for Christmas.

I really want to play this, but Castlevania and 2K11 will easily hold me off on anymore purchases for the rest of this year.

[Flawless]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

I probably lean a bit towards the more positive reviews. My experience was similar to the one I had with Alan Wake. Gameplay in both is the weakest aspect. It's by no means bad or becomes not enjoyable, but I found the story, setting, atmosphere, and characters to be so enjoyable that I didn't mind the average and repetitive gameplay.

[Burns11]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

Personally I would rate this game on the low side after playing through the whole thing. The gameplay was not good, both the grinding fighting and the lack of failing jumping/climbing. Characters I felt personally that they were pretty flat and the story was decent until the nonsensical ending. I would go 7-7.5, no aspect of it was really horrible (but the camera was close) but by the same token nothing was really superlative (emotional expressions in the facial animations were close, but too often the expressions were too cartoony for my tastes).

[aukevin]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

Wow chapter 8 (The Windmill) kicked my butt for a couple days. I'm playing on Hard and it just killed me, so I had to go back to some previous chapters to level up my orb powers. Once I got the focused attack it made it a lot easier, still the dog at the end wasn't that easy.

When I went back and played some previous chapters I dropped the difficulty to Normal and was amazed how easy the game was. I'm not sure if that is because I've been playing on Hard or what, but I was surprised that Mechs could be taken out with just one shot of your plasma.

[Antec]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

I was stuck on the Windmill level for like 2 hours. The part where Trip overloads the power and you have to fight 3 or 4 waves. I eventually beat it on Hard.

Found a nice little trick for it. I would fight regularly until the final wave then I would run back to Trip and wait for them to attack her and use her EMP. Also got her to heal me before the EMP.

Loved the game but hated the ending.

[Bornindamecca]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

Can't believe they made the main character such a meathead. I might have been able to get past the repetitive system and gameplay if not for him. I'll be passing on this one until I run out of stuff to play, and it comes down to 25 bucks or so. Feels like they cast a henchman in the lead role. This guy should be working for the joker and ordered around by Harley Quinn, not starring in his own game.

[Flawless]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

Monkey changes. He's only a meathead early on.

[jmood88]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

There are some spoilers in this video

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[thaima1shu]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

Just picked this up from Amazon. On sale right now for $25 both 360 and PS3 versions.

[JohnDoe8865]

Re: Enslaved (Ninja Theory) PS3/360

Just picked this up from Amazon. On sale right now for $25 both 360 and PS3 versions.

Fantastic value at that price.