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Namco Beautiful Katamari Xbox 360
Beautiful Katamari Xbox 360 Game
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| | | |  | $38.37 Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi 
High-impact, supernaturally infused, anime-inspired martial arts duels are fought, in high-def, throughout the combat arenas and adventuresome realms of Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Tenkaichi.The over-the-top fighting plays out in three dimensions, often high above the ground, and is characterized by long-range attacks, crushing blows, fearless charges, and last-moment counters. As in the anime, fights often feature two combatants racing toward one another for a furious bout of action, followed by a moment of recovery at a distance, and then another rush together, until only one remains standing.The game's Impact Break system emphasizes the enormity of the exaggerated hand-to-hand action, with attacks so powerful that they the tear apart the landscape itself, leaving crevasses and craters that stretch across the earth. An extensive selection of camera angles helps to highlight the big hits (and misses) in the style of the cartoon series. As in the earlier Budokai Tenkaichi games, for Xbox and PS2, a combat-driven story mode is available, featuring 15 super-sized boss fights, along with pick-up-and-play versus battles starring dozens of Dragon Ball Z characters. Players can create their own customized characters, choosing body type, hair, facial features, and attire, as well as fighting style. ~ T.J. Deci, All Game Guide DeepDiscount.com |
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| The King of All Cosmos and the Prince have returned in Beautiful Katamari. The series that took the video game world by storm is set to continue rolling with Beautiful Katamari, featurng new stages, cousins, and fresh visual style. |
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When Katamari Damacy rolled on to the Playstation 2 scene in 2003 amid the numerous big-studio race-, fight- and shoot em up franchises, it was a breath of fresh air. Based on an idea from a school project and developed on a fraction of a typical gaming budget, it was quirky, charming and genre-defying. Reviews were unanimously excellent, it received numerous awards and word of mouth was wondrous. Yet even with its modest price-tag, it only managed to achieve moderate sales. Some claim Katamari was a victim of its own originality, with its refusal to be pigeon-holed making it tough to market to the console crowd who like to know what theyre getting. Regardless, Namco were undeterred and released a number of sequels for Sonys machines before it finally made it to the Xbox 360 in the form of Beautiful Katamari.
The reaction to Beautiful Katamari has been mixed. If it could be considered in isolation, youd be hard pushed to find anyone who views it as anything other than pure, unadulterated fun. Things, however, are not that simple. Beautiful was the first full-price outing for Katamari, and yet has distinctly less content than its predecessors. Granted, there are plenty of additional downloadable levels, which possibly combine to make the best iteration of Katamari to date, but these will empty your bank account even further. Without a doubt someone somewhere is taking the p.
But Beautiful is now a couple of years old and can picked up for pennies. With the price issue no longer relevant, how does it fare? Very well, it turns out. Yes, its basically more of the same: You use the analogue sticks to push a big ball (the titular `katamari`) around various locales, rolling up everything around you like a giant snowball. The bigger you get, the bigger stuff you can collect, sometimes graduating from sweets to skyscrapers and beyond. Typically, the goal is to reach a certain size in a certain time. Despite a sense of urgency imposed by the deadline, its actually an incredibly relaxing and therapeutic experience, thanks largely to the off-beat humour, cartoonish visuals and the brilliant soundtrack. Beautifuls music, ever a Katamari strong point, is all-new, but retains that simple magic which will leave you humming misheard fragments of Japanese lyrics for weeks. And though the graphics hardly showcase the Xbox 360s power, theyre crisp, clear and full of character. One area where the new technology has been harnessed, however, is in the clever use of Xbox Achievements and Gamer Points: Even with the extra downloadable content, it wont take long for a single play-through of all the levels. And while theres always been a collection element to the Katamari games, it was largely ignored by all but the most obsessive/compulsive players. But the additional incentive of Achievements for discovering hidden goodies is the perfect way to encourage your average gamer to return to the game again and again, and have fun doing so. With some games the inclusion of the Achievement system feels like an afterthought, included merely because Microsoft require it, but heres an example of it really adding to the gaming experience.
While the criticisms levelled at Beautiful Katamari were undoubtedly valid - its price-point was all wrong, and it doesnt really push the concept forward in any way - I defy anyone to play for more than 5 minutes without breaking into a huge grin. And theres no stronger recommendation than that.
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating:  Date Reviewed: 01Mar2009 | | | The idea is nice, rolling around gathering up more and more objects to roll up a bigger and bigger ball - but the fact that the controls and camera are so badly done, takes the majority of the fun out of it - it never feels fluid and natural controlling your ball of stuff, and the camera goes all over the places in tight corners.
Also the presentation, though cute, has far too many dialogues to plough through between sections, and a lot of them consist of the King Of The Cosmos insulting your ability, which detracts from the cute psychadelic peace/love atmosphere.
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating: Date Reviewed: 14Jan2009 | | | Just like all the other people have said: its fun, quirky, everyone who plays it falls head over heels... but theres a snag, and its a big one!
The game is shipped with 6 of the 19 levels locked, and the only way to play them (and therefore complete the game 100% with all achievements) is to shell out 1400 MS Points (or £11.90 if youre using a credit card) to unlock the levels. Whats more, buying these `extra` levels is not a download as theyre already on the disc.
For this reason alone, I cannot recommend buying this game for anyone other than die-hard Katamari fans who have played the PS2 games to death already. As a matter of principle, boycott this version as it sets a precedent for `crippled` games on general sale. Imagine if Final Fantasy VII had required a £10 kicker before you could load the 3rd disc and complete the game, thered have been outrage. What Namco has done here is just that, and their cynical handling of an extremely loyal fanbase needs to be given some real media attention.
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating:  Date Reviewed: 11Sep2008 | | |
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| | | | | Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi
High-impact, supernaturally infused, anime-inspired martial arts duels are fought, in high-def, throughout the combat arenas and adventuresome realms of Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Tenkaichi.The over-the-top fighting plays out in three dimensions, often high above the ground, and is characterized by long-range attacks, crushing blows, fearless charges, and last-moment counters. As in the anime, fights often feature two combatants racing toward one another for a furious bout of action, followed by a moment of recovery at a distance, and then another rush together, until only one remains standing.The game's Impact Break system emphasizes the enormity of the exaggerated hand-to-hand action, with attacks so powerful that they the tear apart the landscape itself, leaving crevasses and craters that stretch across the earth. An extensive selection of camera angles helps to highlight the big hits (and misses) in the style of the cartoon series. As in the earlier Budokai Tenkaichi games, for Xbox and PS2, a combat-driven story mode is available, featuring 15 super-sized boss fights, along with pick-up-and-play versus battles starring dozens of Dragon Ball Z characters. Players can create their own customized characters, choosing body type, hair, facial features, and attire, as well as fighting style. ~ T.J. Deci, All Game Guide DeepDiscount.com |
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