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Bionic Commando Multiplayer Demo (360)

That Rev Chap — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:28:00 +0000

I would have much preferred a single player demo. Trying to work out how everything worked while being shot at by other people wasn’t much fun. Only played one game and first impressions are poor. The swinging mechanism I can’t quite work out, the guns appear to be a bit rubbish, the graphics aren’t up to much and it just all felt a bit off. Might be a question of getting used to it or it might just be rubbish. I’m leaning towards the latter right now, and would be leaning that way a lot harder if one of Twitter chums didn’t seem to be enjoying it so much.

Bionic Commando Rearmed (360)

That Rev Chap — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:01:00 +0000

I tried the Tunnels, but they seemed too hard and I really wasn’t in the mood for a real challenge this morning.

Bionic Commando Rearmed (360)

That Rev Chap — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:31:00 +0000

Completed!

Okay, so it’s only on Easy and I haven’t found many secrets or done the tunnels or the vast majority of the challenge levels… but, still, completed!

The last level is incredibly long and difficult – even with what I assume are added platforms for Easy mode – but I got there in the end.

Fantastic game. I plan to play it more, but I’m not sure I could ever finish it on Normal mode. However, I may try.

Bionic Commando Rearmed (360)

That Rev Chap — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:54:00 +0000

I think I’m over half-way through this now, but if I have the time I’d love to run through it on Normal once I’ve finished Easy. And I’ve only done two challenge levels.

Apparently, this has been a big success for a downloadable title and it fully deserves it. More games should have this much care, polish and understanding pumped into their development.

I enjoyed Braid, but it was just a good game – Bionic Commando takes that extra step into something special, for me.

Bionic Commando Rearmed (360)

That Rev Chap — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:34:00 +0000

Got stuck for a fair while on a secret bit of a level which was very hard indeed, but since then I’ve been more or less sailing through the game. The bosses are especially easy, which is nice. I know I’m playing on Easy mode, but it’s nice that it actually is.

It’s really, really good, this. I’m very impressed.

It’s pretty much the perfect remake, I think, taking the original and modernising it with skill, not a sledgehammer.

Bionic Commando Rearmed (360)

That Rev Chap — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:30:00 +0000

This how good this is.

When I finished the first level, instead of going to the next one, I decided to play through it again, boss and all, because it was just so much fun. (And I was hoping I might find one or two secrets, but I didn’t.)

I’m playing on “Easy”, which seems to translate into “Mostly Possible”, and I am having a great time.

TIP: The Advanced Tutorial and gun upgrades found in level 00 are both very, very useful.

Bionic Commando Rearmed Demo (360)

That Rev Chap — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:38:00 +0000

I like this. Quite a lot. Maybe enough to buy.

Hard but fair, based on the demo. Pity it doesn’t let you fight the boss, because that would definitely decide me one way or the other.

As well as the conversion of the old NES game, there are also some VR-style challenge missions. There are two available in the demo. The first is slightly tricky, the second is incredibly hard. Goodness know what the rest are like.