Jigsaw's Blog: My thoughts on games (and other stuff)

I Hate Bionic Commando

I decided to rent Bionic Commando because the swing mechanic looked like it could be really fun. Wow, was I wrong. After thoroughly enjoying the swing mechanic in Spider-Man Friend or Foe I’m shocked at how much I hate it in Bionic Commando. You can only lock onto structures that are within a very short range. Then you have to time your swing release perfectly to land where you want or swing from the next point. Time it wrong and you call almost strait down. In addition there are a lot of areas in the game that you can see but can’t go to because they are covered with radiation. Yet, in a lot of cases you can’t tell the top of a building is covered in radiation until after you get up there and are dead. I’m about 40% of the way through the game and I’ll not be finishing it. I’m tired of dying and I’m not having fun. It is going back to GameFly today. Unless you are an absolute glutton for punishment don’t bother with Bionic Commando. It is not worth the frustration you’ll get from missing the perfect timing by a fraction of a second and then dying.

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