http://www.oxm.co.uk/article.php?id=5649
"God... no. Damn! Phew. Oh God, don't... don't... DON'T! Gah! Followed by screaming, the sound of a pad shattering and a nearby staff writer being thrown headfirst towards the TV.
To say Bionic Commando Rearmed can be a bit frustrating is like saying Xbox 360 can be a bit loud. It's unapologetically old-skool, from the inability to jump right through to the spiked pits that bounce you back a few feet minus a huge chunk of your health. Bosses have attack patterns, health pick-ups have to be earned and each level has been designed around blind leaps of faith and tiny margins of error.
Its strength is its weakness. It has a solid, unrelenting challenge that will remind veteran gamers of years gone by when games made no apologies for being so stupidly, frustratingly, agonisingly tough. There's a real satisfaction when you finally master the arm that allows you to swing around the level like a tooled-up Tarzan, with the retro beats and Duke Nukem script adding to the retro feel. Yet it's those very same things that will turn everyone else off. You should already know which camp you fall into..."
That's the review. That's the ENTIRE review. Someone actually got paid to write this piece of shit! Tells you almost nothing about the game, nothing about the added features, the new weapons, the offline co-op, the multiplayer, the new bosses, the challenge rooms, or the brand new final level. The reviewer does almost nothing but bitch and whine about the game, and then just slaps on an eight out of ten at the end, for no apparent reason whatsoever. They also spelled agonizingly wrong. Ugh.
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