Bionic Commando: Elite Forces

"The ultimite GBC game"

This is a must have for any platform fan. It is not the best game, but it sure comes close. But BEWARE, the game ran smoothly for my GBC but on my friends, it FROZE on stage 3. We tried it 10 times and it still didn't work, but when we put it in my GBC, it worked great. Also a big dissapointment is when I was playing it on my Game Boy Advance, I couldn't go into any stages because it frooze. I put it in my GBC, and it worked. I went back to the GBA and it kept freezing each time that I entered a stage. I'm not saying that it won't work for your GBC or GBA but keep in mind that it possibly might not work. Very strange. I beat it many times on my GBC with never a problem. It is my favorite GBC game, and here's why...

Graphics: 10
Wow, you'll say the same thing when you see the smoothness of your character animation. Unbeleavible graphics for the GBC. Little things like trees infront of you add the icing on the cake. The sniper mode is great with blood. It's funny because I don't think ESRB found it. Otherwise it should have been rated T for teen.

Controls: 7
The weakness of this game. It has great controls once you get use to them, but until then, it takes lots of practice. If you played it for the NES you'll have no problem adjusting to it. The thing is, YOU CAN'T JUMP! You swing ALOT. But once you've mastered swinging its a breeze. You can press down twice and hang from the ledge, and press just up and down to look around. Select is to get back all of your HP unless you have a different item on in its place.

Sound: 9
It sounds like classic Megaman music. Almost perfect except that the song repeat throughout a couple of stages. But the songs are so good you want to hear them more. They also talk on the map but it's a little cracky. just like Megaman it's hummable music.

Design: 8
The stages are WELL thought out. Great design with the stages AND THEY EVEN GOT A SNIPER MODE. A few part the screen may be too small to see where your going. The BIG problem is the boss fights. You fight the same boss many times and is quite easy to dodge. Kinda boring. I wish there were more places for the sniper mode because there arn't many staged that have it, and the reward for it should maybe be more than get all of your life back, it should have a special item. And maybe a grapiling hook that was twice the size (an upgrate) would be nice.

Challenge: 9
Some parts are simple while some parts might take days to master. It all depends on how good you are with the grapiling hook.

Satisfaction: 10
You won't be dissipointed in this. At the end of this game you'll be begging for a sequal. A great game. If you can get this game DON'T hesitate to get it.

Final score (not an average) 10
Not perfect, but next to perfect. If only Capcom would have done more advertising for it. It even has a cake resipe inside. i haven't tried it out but I'm sure it muse be good.

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 09/02/01, Updated 05/26/03