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Every now and then you hear/read about something that makes you stop stunned and think for a moment. I never ever realized that SEGA actually made in Japan a special Rez game edition with a "Trance Vibrator."
No, I am not kidding. You have to see/read this for yourself here at gamegirladvance.
All I have to say is that I find Rez quite the acid trip... if I was a woman it would be the ultimate experience... trance indeed, trance indeed...
If you have a playstation 2 and you haven't played God Of War, you must. Mind you, this ain't a kiddie game, it deserves the big M it carries. It's simply one of the best games I have seen done on the Playstation 2 on all levels- graphics, art, music, gameplay, technical prowess.
Things that I find incredible:
* No environment repeats itself, it's all custom. This gives the game a very "movie like" experience.
* Music is well triggered at the right moments. Excellent music.
* Key aspect: game doesn't insult the player (often, or at least much less than other games) - you die, you restart at a resonable point. The game even gave me a camera hint when I didn't figure out something. Gives the player choice on replenishing health vs magic, etc.
* Key aspect: game streams from the PS2 *all the time* and does this extremely well. If the PS2 can't catch up you will see a brief animated loading on the lower right while the game freezes.. but it's rare and I suspect it has to do more with my aging PS2.
Yes, these huge environments are all interconnected by streaming. Amazing how well they do this. I realize Soul Reaver did this too (and on the Ps1 no less) but in God of War there's just so much art and content it seems.. this is no easy feat. You hardly notice the bigger streaming points.
* Key aspect: the game really feels like an epic experience. There are parts that are simply mindblowing in their presentation and this is all realtime. There are cutscenes, which integrate seamlessly for the most part, but there are also areas that it's all the PS2 pumping those polygons.. amazing.
* Key aspect: hardly any slowdown. There's some but it manifests itself as missing frames more than slowdown, and it's really on the not so often side. Amazing. I think this game is pushing the PS2 in incredible ways.
* Nice story and presentation of that story.
* Key aspect: nice controls. The game feels like it can reward the more hardcore while keeping a low barrier of entry to the game for the casual gamer. After failing a part of the game 3 times, the game asked if I wanted to restart one level of difficulty lower. Nice (no, I didn't switch to a lower difficulty :-) ).
If you have a PS2 you must at least give this game a rental (I would say buy).
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