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As the title would suggest, this is not another what can be terrible "movie adaptation game". Instead, this game adds value to those that are big fans of GL (myself included)or looking for a solid game to play. The controls are pretty simple for any video game veterans of the last decade. There might be challenge here or there, just like in any game, but nothing that can't be handled in co-op. Co-op is great with the "drop in/out" on command feature, good for a busy house or somebody just looking for some quick help. Overall, I'd recommend renting for casual gamers, unless you're really into a "button mashing" game (using the term very lightly). If you're a die-hard lantern fan like me then this is an obvious and fun buy.
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Thank god SEGA didn't work on this game ! They destroyed THOR and I could only hope that they don't rush Captain America and doom it. Overall the game is excellent great weapons,great combat a load of powerups. All the weapons serve a pupose in the game. The game comes with 2 pairs of 3d glasses and it works and makes your gaming experience that much better! Not to long, not to short just rite. The level presentation looks great and so do your enemies. I was sceptical on this release after I played THOR and if your a gamer you know how bad movie games usually are, with a few exceptions ( Batman Arkam, Wolverine, not many) I'm glad I purchased it because I can't stop playing the last 3 days. AWESOME !!!Best Deals for Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters - Xbox 360
This is a very rare super-hero game that is actually good. The only other great ones are Wolverine and Arkham Asylum. Its a pretty solid game, graphics are nice and the various abilities you get to unlock and upgrade are all pretty cool. Campaign length wasn't too short, but nothing spectactular either.The one real complaint I have about this game is that they do NOT have online co-op. Its only local co-op and to me that is an unforgivable ommission. Kudos to them for including the co-op, not enough games include that. But to not have it online capable is just crazy. I purchased it to play online and was not happy when I found out I couldn't do that. Other than that a darn good game.
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Take this review with a grain of salt.I love Brawler type games (ie God of War). I love green lantern and have been reading him pre Ron Marz era.
The game is a fun game. The graphics and the voice overs are fairly good. I didn't notice any graphical glitches or much sound errors. However one thing about the sound, when you are playing two player co-op it gets a little weird cause Hal will talk into his ring to speak to Sinestro when Sinestro is standing right behind him. Some occasions the lines spoken to Sinestro are spoken to Kilowag.
Game play is straight up brawler. You move to an area, kill a bunch of folks, then move onto the next area. Usually once you defeat all the enemies, you have to solve some sort of puzzle or a button mashing sequence to progress. Puzzles are not very challenging and can usually be solved fairly quickly. There are a variety of enemies but they tend to repeat.
The game is somewhat challenging in the beginning, namely because you hit like a wet noodle and lantern energy is not replenished regularly, requiring you to use heavy light attacks. As you progress through the game you can level up, and unlock new moves and abilities through "willpower points." Willpower points are gathered through destructible items or through chaining combos. This makes the later stages alot more fun since you can 5 different types of enemies on the stage and you need different powers to take them out. The game makes using constructs easy, you can map 4 to each shoulder button + face button (aka left trigger + b will use the gattling gun). Once you progress through the game and unlock everything the game becomes very very easy. Pretty much you have unlimited lantern energy, and every fight you can go crazy. I wish there was an insane difficulty, because at this point you can just pull out your constructs and pretty much 1 shot everything (hello jet). The ground brawler sections are broken up by rail shooter segments. These are okay, and suffer from the same difficulty issues that the brawler section does. It goes from easy to very easy.
Not many games have couch multi-player, but the game pretty much stays the same. To me it seems that the enemies don't get stronger at all and now with another person it becomes even easier.]
All in if you want a good brawler then go for it. The difficulty level could be upped.
I'm surprised that no DLC or unlockables have been included. Once you finish the play through there is not much else left to do.
The game came with 2 3d glasses. These glasses are not designed for an adults face. The 3d looked okay, but nothing to write home about.
This game gives me the opportunity to play as green lantern, which I have been waiting for for a long time. However as an objective video game player it suffers from the curse of being a movie tie in game. While not as bad as some of the other ones, it is defiantly no spider man 2 or wolverine. Its short enough to be beaten while rented, or pick it up cheaper.
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This game was a nice surprise because it was a superhero game that wasn't too campy and ridiculous, but fun. I, as every other avid video gamer, was hesitant about what the quality of this game would be like, having seen the spotty track record of titles related to film franchises.No, this game isn't a direct movie tie-in, because it's not a full Green Lantern origin story like the movie is going to be (from what I can tell by movie previews to date). Hal is already chosen by the ring, and this game is more like his first adventures as a Green Lantern. It's just good timing to make a video game release with a big name movie release it's called marketing, people you'd do just the same thing to make $$$ if you were in charge.
The gameplay could get a little repetitive, in the way of a beat-em-up game like Marvel Ultimate Alliance and X-Men Legends, but mixing in the ring constructs with scenery changes wasn't too bad at all. I died a few times even on the easiest difficulty because I had to figure out how to defeat certain strong baddies after some trial and error, but never got frustrated about it. Flight missions were decent, with constant action going on in them so you stay attentitive. I replayed a few missions just for experience points, but I'd say it took me about 7 hours to go through. Not too much replayability after that unless you really want to. There might be some future DLC on it, looking at the box's back. I did not try co-op.
Visually, the graphics were decent, and I never got any framerate losses. 3D was meh, but that can be subjective for every person my eyes got a little tired from the red-green glasses supplied. The character art was nice in my opinion, with vibrant colors and also ongoing action (battles in the background). I didn't get bored of the environments.
I'd recommend this game as a nice, casual superhero game that keeps moving you along, but not feel like you're grinding your way through. I thought it was a fun story. I know some people are going to think that it's going to be way off canon with the manhunters doing their rising and all, but I thought it was good for what it did (yes, I've read some GL titles, myself). Not every comic book video game property has to follow verbatim to what a printed comic book title did. Batman: Arkham Asylum did pretty well on its own. But if that's what you really want, then wait for a game called something like "Green Lantern vol. 4: As Written By Geoff Johns".
TL;DR its a good and fun 7-hour superhero game, don't hate it until you actually play it!
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