Disaster Report

"Fun but not replayable"

STORY 7
Todays storylines are getting.... poor... It has been a long time since I have seen a good one and in this case.. The storyline was ok. In the beginning you are a reporter making his way to his new job(on a bridge WOOHOO! PITFALLS!!!) anyways as you can probably guess if you have any idea what the games about a earthquake hits totaling the bridge and the train your on making your journey to your new job just a little bit harder. The game is alittle misleading when it says that you have to uncover information... really it is revealed to you almost no matter what... but anyways the story is good not great but I don't think inserting a underground demon who caused it all would work out at this point...as is in all rpgs lol

GAMEPLAY 9
I realy like how the game plays. You only fight once in the game and even then you dont use your hands or a gun. Although you get shot at a lot more then once. Rather then fighting the entire game revolves around don't get smashed under the buildings! Other peoples reviews had me thinking I would be on the edge trying to dodge rocks that were falling everywhere and randomly placed fires and the such but in truth the game has a good pace. dont worry about everything crumbling under your feet... if somethings going to fall the games pretty good about giving you a forwarning.(Um I guess there is supposed to be a make items system but you don't even need it to complete the game so.. I won't really comment on it the controls are very well done you shouldn't have a hard time getting used to them because you go where you tell your person to go rather then they move 4 steps up when you !TAP! the button to make them move 1 step up the Camera can not be moved manualy... but thats not that bad of a thing considering it gives you ok views for the most part. you shouldn't have any problem getting used to the gameplay if you have ever played a video game in general...

VOICEOVERS 4
You know....(shakes his head) people if your going to do voiceovers... please.. please PLEASE make them good... especialy the ones when they are grunting or feeling pain... or talking or walking or sitting or opening doors or falling or dodging huge falling buildings or falling trees..... anyways... the voice acting is just.. bad... the normal talking when they are calm is fine but when they need to express an emotion they never hit it rite.. you will first see an example of this when you climb a wall with a girl and you both grunt like your lifting 600 pounds when your climbing a 7 foot wall... when somone falls off a building (wont tell you when or who) he/she screams... just.. it's just horid...(as in the voice acting sucks not that it scared me)

Sound 8

Sounds good not much to talk about but all I can say is it all fits besides the thunder sound when you get a warning that something is shaking/falling

Music 8

Not memorable but good.. I have played games that I could have written 600 words about but this game has it just like the sound it fits

Replayability 2
My replayability rating works like this the rating is how many times you can play it over again..The game is about 5 hours long the first time and 3 hours long the second time so at 2 times playing its only about 8 hours long...

with that said on to the graphics

GRAPHICS 8
ok all the people who skipped to this need to start understanding why people write reviews with the graphics at the bottom... so you READ THROUGH please don't think graphics make a game thinking that way will get you no where in the world of GOOD video games.. The graphics are good... but I rated them high because if they were any better your game would run at 2 miles per hour... it slows down the game when things start falling (by the way there are only 4 or 5 times that stuff REALLY starts falling and you have to keep moving to live the rest is small fry stuff) it's not that big a deal though you don't even notice cuz you want it to stay so you can see everything falling before it touches you.. but it's bad in some parts cuz you can see exactly how something is falling apart and sometimes things dont move at all when they fall example a large plank of wood falls looking like this / and lands just like this / just gets jammed into the ground... but you probably won't notice unless you are really looking. The graphics are a little.. bright.. but really they are good not much can be said passed that

Rent or Rent
Most any game you get today you can beat while its rented and this is one of them..

Overall 8

Afterthought
good.. not memorable but good.. something to pass the time..
I still say you should get it just to see what it's like for yourself (rented that is)

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 08/28/03