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Not As Bad As The Reviews Make It SeemSep 16, 2011
By Always Samsung
"ravereviews"
Not As Bad As The Reviews Make It Seem.
I've been eyeing this game ever since the movie came out over the summer. I've notice the price drop gradually week after week and sometimes even day after day. Well, the movie is finally out on DVD and I ended up getting the game to coincide with the DVD release. I thought long and hard before buying this title. The price is RIGHT! It finally dropped to fifteen bucks, so i caved in, and brought it. With all these one star reviews, i refused to purchase it at anything higher than twenty bucks. The one star reviews are being way to critical. Yes, this game has some flaws, but all those flaws have nothing to do with technical glitches and are more about the game play itself. This is an action adventure game. Thor walks around and beats up bad guys (The same ones over and over, no variety whatsoever), goes from level to level, encounters a villain for the final boss battle and moves on. Nothing groundbreaking, same formula found in games from the 80's. Except that formula worked well in the 80's during the NES and Sega Genesis era when there wasn't much variety or options and home gaming and arcades games were relatively new to t he masses. Remember 'Streets of Rage 2'? It was repetitive, but worked. Anyways, it could have worked well here also, but it doesn't. Does that mean it makes this game awful? Absolutely not, but it does make the game very repetitious. THOR lacks the excitement for the gamer to continue on. Games these days need to offer more variety especially with the capabilities that game developers have at their fingertips. With cutting edge Mario games, other game developers really need to step up to the plate to deliver addictive titles.
I know the game has been trashed for its graphics as being too PS2-esque, but that didn't bother me so much. I am a comic book fan and for fifteen dollars, this is a decent game. Hell, i even enjoyed the 'Catwoman' video game for goodness sakes. Trust me, there are far worst games out there than this. This just happened to get a truly bad wrap because THOR has never had a video game of his own and i believe gamers had high expectations for his first outing. Unfortunately, the movie was FANTASTIC and the game is mediocre at best, but still has its high and low points. This game manages to throw in `God of War' and `Ghostrider' elements into its game play which keeps things interesting and I appreciated that. I'm also being very generous with my four-star review. It is more like three and a half.
28 of 39 found the following review helpful:
Thor Should of Stayed At Home for This Adventure...May 08, 2011
By Jason Ralsky Thor: God of Thunder is a movie tie-in game that could of been very unique and fun but instead turns out to be a very bad clone of God of War mixed with some The Force Unleashed (in my opinion). While I do not own a physical copy of Thor I was given the opportunity to play through the game by a friend and in doing so I was glad I did not purchase the title, despite being a big fan of Thor.
GAMEPLAY This is one of the major problem this game has in my opinion. What we have here is a bad clone of God of War mixed with a little The Force Unleashed style gameplay. I enjoyed both titles and the hack and slash style of gameplay. However, Thor's execution of this gameplay style was poorly implemented. After the first hour of smashing and electrocuting mobs I began to notice there is very little in the way of enemy variety or reason to even use your combos. Just mashing attack is often good enough (on normal difficulty setting) to get past most mobs with the occasional need to perform a simple combo attack to break a mob's armor and such. Like in God of War, when you kill mobs you will get experience points pretty much and can use them on a grid to level Thor's abilities up. The grid I felt was easy to use despite having a complex look to it. Included in the gameplay are numerous bugs that plague the title. Animation glitches, sound glitches, bad dialogue, poor physics engine the list goes on. While the problems are not game breaking, they are annoying and some of the bugs I ran into were down right inexcusable to have in a game. ( Next objective did not load for me twice during my playthrough. Restarting at the last checkpoint/save resolved it ). My biggest gripe about the gameplay is the poor execution of the grapple. Sometimes you will get the grapple notification and I would grapple the mob only to have the mob "automatically" counter my grapple and throw me away. It seemed completely random and I never could figure out why the enemy was able to just randomly counter me(could of been a PS3 bug as it didn't happen nearly as much on the 360).
GRAPHICS I would say the graphics in this game are lacking. In fact early 360/PS3 or perhaps almost PS2/Xbox level at times. At times it felt like the Remastered God of War II where they took a 480p game and remastered it in 720p. It looked nice but you can tell something wasn't right. There are plenty of graphical hiccups throughout the game including a funny moment where Thor's cap actually rendered backwards and he was walking around with his cape over his chest for about 5 minutes. Don't expect mind blowing graphics from this title pretty much.. however the game is 3D capable. I was not able to test this feature out however due to a lack of a 3DTV.
SOUND/STORY When it comes to music and sound effects I would say they are fair. The game uses the actors from the movie so there is some care and thought put into the dialogue, even if it was sometimes very cheesy. Game sound effects were not bad either but seemed to lack some power/muscle to them at times. STORY wise, this is a movie tie-in game which technically does not follow the movie. In a way this is good since it tries to be its own entity while using the movie actors and voices. However the storyline is very shallow and is essentially there to give you a reason to move to the next room of bad guys to smash.
REPLAY/LENGTH It took me about 7-8 hours to beat the game on the standard difficulty setting (Midguardian). Throughout the game you will find various bosses to slay and of course hidden collectibles. The placement and nature of the collectibles reminds me a bit of The Force Unleashed here as these collectibles will unlock additional costumes, colors for Thor's lightning, etc. The added replay value here really isn't in the gameplay or storyline... but that these collectible items have DIFFICULTY REQUIREMENTS. Some of the collectibles you will be unable to pick up unless you are playing on the proper difficulty.
OVERALL F (58%) Sadly I have to give THOR 1 star (an F rating in my book). The game is plagued with problems, and feels a bit like a fancy PS2 / Xbox title trying to mimic God of War II but left off much of what made that game fun. Is Thor: God of War a horrible game that should be avoided like the Lunchroom Meatloaf? No. It is a game that just has many problems and feels rushed and badly executed. Playing through the game, you can feel and even see the potential for a great game here that could of even brought some unique aspects into the genre but instead just got thrown out there to capitalize on the movie. With that said I feel Thor: God of Thunder is the kind of game that is perfect as a weekend RENTAL
4 of 6 found the following review helpful:
What is this!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!Jun 22, 2011
By Mr. Negative This game has gotten some pretty harsh reviews from several critics through multiple outlets. I tend to take these with a grain of salt, but, let me say, this game has no redeeming features. It deserves the lashing that it's gotten. Let me say this, Sega could have, and should have done a better job of supervising the development of this game.
The graphics aren't the worst out there, but they could have been much better, and much (much) smoother. And, what's with Thor's freakishly huge hands and shrunken head? And Loki? What is going on with his big head, short arms, and incredibly large and long hands? Seriously? C'mon, Sega. These are just basic anatomical features that even many of the worst produced games get right. Who designed and carried through with these character designs? They're awful, and whomever is responsible should be ashamed of their work. Unless the game developer is managed and run by an 11-year old having overseen a development team filled with 11-year olds, you are fully capable of high resolution graphics beyond 720p, anatomically correct figuring, and fluid animation. I know that you are.
"We had a short development cycle". That's the developer's way of saying: "I was going to have to work hard and apply myself to develop a quality game, and I didn't want to do that because I'm too lazy. I only got into this field and found a job as a game developer because I like video games, don't like to be accountable to any sort of expectation of my work, and don't relate to humans so well. Not because I want to go to work, apply myself, and do the best job that I can to create an exceptional experience for the gamers who spend their hard-earned money on the products that I am involved in developing. It's too much work."
There are lazy people, and people who "graduate at the bottom of the class" in every field known to man. Those seem to be the developers that Sega found. They clearly went after people whom they could pay the minimum that they had to in developing products for their large-dollar contract with Marvel (who should be holding them accountable for the job that they are doing, by the way) so that you can buy them, take them home, open them (thus making a video game unreturnable), and find out that you've been shafted (but only too late) as they laugh all the way to the bank.
The character is a bit clunky to move around, but, once you figure Thor's movement limitations out, you can somewhat adjust to give yourself some semblance of playability with the character. However, wonky things, which will be beyond your control, will happen at inopportune times. To make up for their clunky controls, when you fall off a ledge (or, are knocked off of a ledge the second you land near one), they allow for what is called a "Heroic Recovery". This is their way of saying "Yeah, the control scheme in this game is completely screwed up and broken, and yes, we neither cared enough to, nor wanted to go to the effort to fix it, because we're lazy, and don't care. But, our excuse to cover that is that we had a short development schedule, and (throat clear) "Ran out of Time". So, instead, when this happens, and it will, and will often, we just plop you back down where you were at no consequence to you. So there, all better then, mmmmmmmKay?"
No Sega, no it's not.
The combat can be surprisingly deep, however, you seem to use the same sequence of button strikes for differing combos, which makes no sense, so, it's a "grab bag" as to which combo that you actually deliver. That is just stupidity and laziness on the behalf of the developer. Apparently nobody managed the development of this game. They just "took the leash off" of these lazy game developers and let them run wild and unsupervised. It's an obvious formula for success as the resulting Thor video game shows.
Overall, it's a terrible experience, and graphically on par with Dragon Age (which isn't a compliment). Game play wise, it's boring and clunky.
It's much better than Iron Man 2 was, but it is still terrible. You should be ashamed of yourselves, Sega. You should have put the developer back to work, and demanded a better product for your customers. Oh, wait...that would mean that you cared, which you obviously don't.
I wanted to give it 2 stars because I love Thor. But, by Odin's beard, I just couldn't.
If you want to play a great superhero game, well developed in all areas, look no further than the following (and Marvel/Sega, please take notice, as DC (WB) seems to know how to get it right):
Batman Arkham Asylum: Game of the Year Platinum Hits
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters
By the way, a good safeguard against these developers making these atrocious games would be for the developing company, as well as Sega, to require for every person involved with the creation, development, and release of a game to be required to purchase, at full retail selling price, a special edition of the game, marked as such that it can not be sold or "traded in" as a used game for credit. They should be stuck with a final copy of their product at expense to themselves. I think that this practice would host to a little more effort on the developer's end.
And Sega? I know that you aren't, but you should be ashamed of this product.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
AtrociousJun 27, 2011
By N. Durham
"Big Evil"
You know that rule about comic book movie adaptations that have really bad tie-in video games? Yeah, that's in full effect with Thor: God of Thunder. From the same crew that was behind Sega's two Iron Man games (and the upcoming Captain America game), Thor puts you in the boots of the titular God of Thunder as he takes on Frost Giants and other assorted baddies, in a style that is pretty much a quasi-God of War ripoff. That in itself would only make the game monotonous, but combine that with the dated graphics engine (it looks like an early PS2 game), buggy gameplay, and horrible controls, and you have a game that is flat out atrocious. Actors Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston, who portray Thor and Loki respectively in the film, sound like they're both half asleep, and the game as a whole feels like it was so rushed out of the gate that it comes off as being unfinished. Avoid.
All the negative reviews are trueNov 10, 2011
By Michael Anthony
"Hybridblues"
All I can say is that I'm glad I borrowed this from a friend. I only played this for a few hours and I'm glad that I didn't spend my hard earned cash on this. It wasn't even worth playing for free. Avoid at any cost
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