Have you ever played Vanquish? Most haven't, even though Gamestop advertised it for the better part of 2 months. The unfortunate part of the games popularity is, Gamestop was the ONLY channel that advertised the game! This game had been in production since 2007 and was released in 2010, no less. So, why wouldn't the publisher properly advertise this game they dumped so much time and money into? I think I know the answer...
Now don't take that as a bad game rant "foreshadow". Vanquish is good. REALLY GOOD. You play the game as Sam Gideon, a DARPA agent fitted with an experimental nano-suit that can enhance his senses, strength, and speed (read: Bullet Time) and it has jet thrusters he can use to boost around the battlefield. The suit also has a nano-weapon that allows him to switch weapons on the fly, while its still in his hands. Basically, you're a weapon designed to kill anything before it has a chance to react.
Lemme talk about the plot, so you can understand why Gamestop never advertised it.
*Breathes in deeply*
Sam is sent to a space station that has been taken over by Russian terrorist robots to save a scientist that, incidentally, created an energy source that has been re-formatted as a WMD. It should be noted that the WMD space colony has already destroyed San Francisco and Sam is attached to a bunch of Marines.
This is not exactly an award-winning plot, it is actually the most stereotypical story I have ever heard for a modern game. It's really an excuse to shot stuff, like the story was just an after thought.
Back to being basically a human weapon. After completing this game all I can ask is, what can't you do in this game? You can dropkick a robot right after coming out of a rocket slide, then proceed to slow down time and fill said airborne robot with lead as its tumbling end over end. Seriously, if that last sentence doesn't make you want to buy the game, nothing will. The whole game is just filled with ludicrous amounts of robot destroying violence. I mean, hell, if a large robot fires a big missile at you, Sam can slow down time, shoot the offending missile and, if destroyed close enough to the offending robot, it will blow up in his face. In my humble opinion, this game has more style in it than the last two Devil May Cry games combined.
Vanquish...does have its faults. On big one is the completion time of the game, four to five hours. That’s it. It could be said I took my time with this game and I completed it in four and a half hours. The only incentives to keep playing is to either ramp up the difficulty or try to see if you can beat it with a better score (read: artificial reasons). Maybe that’s another reason why it didn’t have a ton of advertising, since you can beat the game in one sitting if you have half a day to kill. Sorry, but five hours (MAX if you have a TON of trouble with it) of gameplay is hardly worth $60. Maybe $40, but not $60.
Another flaw is how seriously the game takes itself at times. The story is just garbage. The ending of it does hint HEAVILY at a sequel, so I can only imagine how much better this game series can be. Well, there is a moment in the game involving a boombox playing what sounds like GunStar Heroes and…well…you will just have to see for yourself.
My suggestion is to rent or borrow this one, or wait until the price drops substantially or even buy a used copy for $20. It’s a good game, but there is zero longevity to it.
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