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"The next big one"

Panzer Dragoon Orta

After a whole string of reviews I've read there is only one conclusion- this will be great.

Epic storyline, fantastic soundtrack, great old skool gameplay with new twists, tons of extras- including the saturn original not to mention the best visual experience Xbox has yet delivered. I'll back that up- I've seen footage.

And one more thing- Boss Battles! They're back. According to Gamespot, its one of the best blends between tried and tested gameplay with new technology. I like the sound of that.

Set youy money aside for this one guys.

Panzer Dragoon Orta is actually quite deeper than it lets on. However, if your the type of gamer, who will run through it once then put it on the shelf, then don't buy it. To maximise your enjoyment out of it, you really need to keep going back through it and attempting to obtain those elusive "S" rankings, which is a feat in itself. Oh, then there's the matter of unlocking all those goodies too, one of which is the PC version of Panzer Dragoon.

For me. It's the most visually impressive game I've seen on the XBox. The surrounding environments look fantastic and Orta and her Dragoon, well, when I fired up my copy of the game, the sound of jaw hitting floor could be heard.

Gorgeous. Gorgeous. Gorgeous. And a pleasure to play too!

So it's like Lylat Wars or Starwing?

Ahh, No, now I think about it PDO isn't onrails in the same way House of the dead is, but it is like Space harrier. In PDo you move into the screen but still can move around and dodge fire. You still are guided through the level along various routes.

Space Harrier wasn't on rails.....well, it was kind of primitive, you could move round in a big circle, but the enemies alwasy stayed in fornt of you.


But yeah, I know what you mean, but for someone who hasn't read a couple of page preveiws in a magazine, the prospect of an on-rails shooter being a huge system selling game seems a little ridiculous.

Whitestripes wrote:
> Actually that does sound truly cack. I'm sure it isn't, but I've never played an entire game that was on rails,

As said Pokemon snap is on rails. PDO is alot like Space Harrier(remember that?)- sort of.

I also played a bit in roague Leader where you go down this sort of canynon on a big space ship, and you have to dodge the beams and shot stuff. PDO that I think.

Unless it's done with style, then on-rails is bull. Panzer Dragoon Orta sounds like it has a lot of variety and keeps the player on his toes. That's why it's got such high review scores.

Well, Pokemon Snap pulled it off, it was fun, although it was a very different concept. Then again, it was far from a blockbuster title.

You know the first secret mission in Rogue Leader? Where you're a gunner in the Falcon and you just target and shoot the enemies? Well by the soudns of it, this whole game is just that, hardly sounds exhilerating...

(To WS that is)

:)

Likewise with me.

Morrowind is my favourite game, but I also love Rez.
Maybe I'm a gaming extremist or something....