good game gone bad in part 2
589017
I loved the original Two Worlds....but they made two worlds 2 so different it lost all the things i loved about the first game.  Not happy at all with the game.  I had hoped i could play this one with my grandson like i do the original....but as soon as i came upon the f...word i knew it wasn't a game for kids anymore.  Very disappointed.  Definately wasted my money on this one.  Will go back to playing the original two worlds and probably trash this one.
3231780
I downloaded and played the Demo.. I thought great, what a kicka$$ game.. The storyline is great, the graphics are awesome if your video card is compatible or Recognized by the game(Radeon 9700 is not).. If not MAJOR BUGS from slow windows inside the game to rough game play!!! It only took 15hrs to beat single player mode, Multi-player [smells].. You have to restart a new character every time you play or change servers..You lose your money and ship!!! SO much for progress.. My system XP2500+ Nforce 2 Radeon 9700 1GB 333DDR.. Save your money for something else!!!...
4340617
I thought this game was great, but I enjoyed the first one more. Instead of trying to find where you should go and what you should do when you get there, they have idiot proofed this one. I enjoyed the trial and error in the first one. There was much more thinking in how you should do things, a lot more brain stimulation. The second one when you walked up to a door it gave you options on what to do so there was no question if you should go that way or not. It took me a bit to beat the first game, but this one I think I beat in the first two days which makes me wish I rented it instead of bought it.
2440060
Pretty good game but they should iron it out.  Like chapter The Grave of Henry Avery  (moderate) has that part where Drake is climbing & I couldn't get up to  reach the ladder because Sam wasn't there first so he just stayed hanging from the ledge (there was room for him to climb up).  I went back down then he went and it worked that time.  There's probably more little flaws that need to be fixed but I guess I'll find out.
2685327
The game was great as first, then the developers started tying in weapons to DLC. Which turned the game into a pay to win scheme instead of a fair FPS. Now if you want to compete at an even level to other players you have to buy all of the DLC. Which is pissing off the player base, making matchmaking a shell of what it used to be. DO NOT buy this game unless you plan on buying all the DLC with it, otherwise you are at a major disadvantage.
465777
Wow...... WOw..... WOW!!!!!  CAN THIS GAME GET N E WORSE!??!?  i mean come on, this is a classic example of too much of a good thing.  1 was great, 2 was amazing, 3 was wonderful, 4 JUST [was bad]!!!!!  they should have stopped at three, they took a good thing and took it too far, enough said.  they ruined this series and is they come out with a 5, god help us all, it will be the end of the mariobrothers as we know it!!!
1221768
I have loved the rest of the series, but this game was a severe disappointment to me.  This game is good, but clearly over rated after playing through it completely.  The game play has a few annoying glitches in story mode where you have to stand or move just so.  There is one fight that is just a button mashing pain in the butt.  You also have to do so much annoying mundane crap at certain points before you can move on.  I play games to escape reality and not to live someone else's boring life.  The story line overall is good and I'd watch it as a movie aside from the already mentioned mundane tasks.  So worth playing overall, but hold out longer until it is cheaper to satiate your urge to see the end.
2956718
I've played all three GoW titles on the PS2/3, with the first two the best in terms of originality, story, and fun. The third was not bad, however the gameplay was starting to get stale which the excellent graphics partially made up for.

Now you have two PSP games on one disk. The first game "Chains of Prometheus" looks dated. Story totally forgettable. Gamplay was so-so, though the introduction of an actually useful secondary weapon changed it up to keep it interesting.

The second "Ghost of Sparta" definitely looks better. It introduces some welcome gameplay changes by adding environmental challenges. However there are incredibly annoying gameplay elements that are present from Chains like:

1. Kratos having attacks that once started cannot be stopped by the user. One in particular is linked to the block button so if you accidentally press attack he will start spinning around and leave himself open to getting whacked.
2. Mobs having unstoppable attacks. Boss type and large type creatures I can understand this feature. However there are other mobs (dual-wielding skeletons in particular) that have this feature and coupled with the first flaw can cause major frustration.
3. Poor placement of checkpoint locations. Instead of putting you back right before the fight where you died, you are frequently put in locations further back that may require recollecting chests or opening doors. Or the worse, right before a cutscene which cannot be skipped. Do I need to explain how rage-inducing this can be after the second attempt at an encounter?

I finished Chains but got fed up playing Sparta and traded it back in to Amazon. Sure I could have finished it, but I stopped when I felt like I was just trying to grind through the game instead of enjoying it.
842362
The graphics was one of the main reasons for getting this game. The acrobatics are awesome as well and so make the game more fun... until you start reaching levels where you can't beat anyone - you can't save the game - and when you get sick of trying to beat them and turn off the system, you've got to start the level all over again.  Two buttons for fighting sequences just doesn't seem to be enough.
I'm not a huge gaming freak but I enjoy my occasional gameplay, so it takes me more than 7 hours to beat a game... but when it gets frustrating, it gets exchanged for another game.
I recommend that you rent - not purchase this game.
1580632
GAME could have been better if 2k sports had focused more time and effort improving the game revesals for the gamers .
instead they messed everything up it is way to hard to reverse the computer in The NXT mode, along with 2k showcase I was only able to beat the hustle, loyal, disrespect mode that was hard in itself.
This game is as bad as ww2k12.
2046693
I had been enjoying this game but I found it less fun past about level 40 (of 60) and finally gave up at level 50 in the between game--this one was the match-2 game. After an hour (and 5 "there are no more matches of two" failures), I quit. I wanted a hidden object game, not an impossible match-2 game. The first hidden object levels are almost too easy, but still a good way to pass the time. The locations begin to repeat about halfway through, and the items to find also repeat to a small extent, so that you can actually remember where they were last time you had to find them.  This game is about twice as long as it should have been, and the later in-between match-2 games should not have been un-winnable after so many attempts. I say don't bother with this one.
758280
I liked the original Crysis so much that I played it for two years off and on. I loved the open world environment that allowed me to try different techniques and to travel various paths to get to the intended goals. While Crysis 2 is just as fun it has its limitations. It doesn't allow you as much free movement and you cannot save the game whenever you want. You have to make it to the next check point before the game will save. There are a lot of enemies to prevent you from achieving the next check point too. You'll die many deaths trying to get to that next check point unless you are very stealthy or very lucky. That means that if you don't make it the first, second, or third time you may get frustrated like I did. But that repetition makes you a better player trying different weapons to achieve your goal. The story isn't much, you meet a guy named Alcatraz who gives you his super 'suit' -- which is a weapon unto itself and must be kept out of the enemy's hands at all costs -- and then he kills himself. It's all down hill from there because nearly everybody, every soldier and every alien is trying to kill you because they all think that you're him and they all want the super suit.
Of course, survival is the name of the game and you must do so if you want to save humanity and to clear your good name.
Crysis 3 is soon to be released so if you hurry now you can get Crysis 2 on the cheap. It'll be worth it if you have a GPU that can handle it. It's a great game so what are you waiting for?

UPDATE -- I stopped playing this game because I was so frustrated at it on many levels. I lowered my score from 5 stars to 3. Other reviewers have gone into detail why this game isn't up to the original's standards. So I'll skip the negatives except for a few: The check-point save feature ruined it for me. The original allowed you to save anywhere and at anytime. It was such a huge game that you could get lost if you didn't save often. C2, however, just returns you to the last check-point and you lose whatever you gained. The graphics aren't all that great either. The missions are limited and they have few to no side missions which means limited exploration.

I have begun C3 which I think is much better and more fun. The graphics are amazing if you have the GPU to handle it. The game play is more inspired. But like I said it is much more fun than C2. Skip C2 and just get C3.
1698805
This game was downright horrible and to think, they made a sequel. tsk tsk...... Im not sure exactly where they were going with this game, mabye they just messed up by tryign to move away from using polygons for graphics. And once again I see my fridn Mr. Da reviewed this game several times as he stuttered tapped the keyboard, I hope this isn't how he speaks, I hate internet speak and ebonics and his writing is just a combination of the 2, absolutely Horrid.
3896073
The action is great in this game, just like the first.  But what made the first one so great was the ridiculous story and characters.  The story and characters are still ridiculous, but it lost some of the charm.

I'm definitely glad I got this game, and I'll definitely get the next one, but it's not as good as the first game.
4757079
The good:
*I really enjoyed customizing my platoon of soldiers to look like people I know. It made me a little more invested in the choices I made on the battlefield.
*Mechanically speaking, a rock solid turn based strategy game.
*New environmental effects that were missing from the first game (Enemy Within)

The bad:
* Chance-to-hit. This game uses a simulated dice roll when deciding if you're going to hit your target or not, similar to the VATS system in Fallout. Only, unlike Fallout, if it says you have an 80% chance to hit your target, I personally found that I would miss far more than 20% of the time which would almost always prove to be a fatal error for my team resulting in injury or death. By the way, the game features perma-death, meaning that if your squad mate dies, he/she stays dead. This can prove especially devastating later in the game if a highly ranked veteran squad mate dies. The good news is that the game auto saves at the beginning of every turn, so if things go horribly wrong, you can go back a save file or two and reset your strategy.
*Lack of engaging story. It felt more like a battle simulator.

The ugly:
*The load times. Anytime you have to load a game file where you're on a mission and not back on the Avenger, expect to wait several minutes. Grand Theft Auto 5 loading times. Only, don't expect anything even remotely close to the same size map when comparing the two games. The average XCOM  2 battlefield is only 2-3 square city blocks, peppered with a handful of baddies and maybe the occasional wandering civilian. All of which is covered by the fog of war until a squad mate has actual eyes on it.
3088994
This could be a really good game if they eliminated the issues of glitches which can halt your game progress and possibly have to start over.  This is a common issue people have and if the game weren't $2.50, I wouldn't be happy.  I lost about 3 hours of play and even now, who knows if I'll run into the same issue that other users have had.  The game has been great besides these so rotating a few different saved games would be helpful.
36336
This is a great game and its fun too, but the bugs get annoying. but first the good things. The graphics are fairly good, the gameplay is good, the levels ar good, the weapons are good, and i like all the Characters you are in the diffirent levels, and it challenges you. Now the bad stuff. the camera views get messed up some times, some times the the characters repeat what they just said, some times it locks up when you try to save a game, some times the sound gets messed up (and its not my sound card), and some times the characters start saying things when a. they all ready said it b. your not even close to them. But overall this is a good game, and i recommend it to any one who likes star wars or adventure/Action games.