A revamped classic.
Well what to say about Bionic Commando Rearmed is the remake of the great Bionic Commando for the NES.I never played the original Bionic Commando but after playing this I'm sure it was a revalutionary game for it's time.First I want to start off with the art style,it's beautiful.Every developer that is planing on making a revamp of a great classic,take note of Bionic Commando Rearmed.But this also brings some of the annoying aspecs of NES games.Some of the most annoying things are you get pushed back when you get shot by bigger weapons,trial and error gameplay,and sometimes annoying boss fights.First lets talk about getting pushed back.Well when your jumping on platforms with your arm and you land on a small platform you can get knocked back and apparently a dude with a Bionic Arm can't swim....gah there is some real annoying things in this game.The trial and error is probably the most annoying part though.Well let me put you in a situation,your swinging and you have to get to a certain point and you swing and accidentaly push the stick to much and your on top of a huge building and there you.....falling down and you either can get people to kill you or you can just climb the wall back up and because of the freaking respawing enemies,you have to kill all of them again.Next would be the annoying boss fights.I can only think of one right off the top of my head and that's the boss fight with MAMA.I mean it's pretty annoying just trying to get the bolts out and if you close to MAMA and it shoots a big bomb,concider yourself screwed cause it'll hit you and take off almost half your health and when he shoots scatter bombs at you and you end up in the middle,again,consider yourself screwed you have no time to get out of the small area in time to avoid getting your ass blown off.Well that's my main hates so now it's time for the smaller less important hates.First would be the controls,the reason I'm not making these one of my main complaints is because the only one I don't like is the arm controls.The thing I hate is when you have to stop just before you hit something that'll hurt you then when you stop you still flie forward a little bit and hit them then more freaking frustration!Gah,now I'm tired of hating on BIonic Commando Re. so now let's talk about some of the good things,we already talked about the amazing art style so now lets talk about the great tutorial,a nice weapon variety,and a pretty long story.The tutorial is flawless if you really read it and acually try to learn the controls then you might get the hang of it after maybe 2 or 3 areas.After every are you complete you receive some reward,most of time it's weapons.After 30 minutes of playing BCR I had already received a Rocket launcher,Revolver,Gernades,and some laser gun thing.They are all very fun to play with and never get old.The story has 19 areas some are just little camps where you pick up chips and gear to do some other areas but most are action packed and has a really hard boss fight at the end.
Multiplayer:The co-op is pretty fun and is the same thing as the story but with one more person,no real pros to it and no real cons to co-op mode.I was really diappointed that there was no online co-op mainly because I bought it mainly to play online with my friend but when I pick it up,nope,no online co-op
Re-play Value:Don't get me wrong,this game is great and is guaranteed to be fun to mostly anybody,but this game has very little re-play value unill the trophies are realesed this game has no real re-play value at all.
End It!All-in-all this game is a bargain,$10 for a game that is hella fun even though it has little to no re-play value.But when the trophie are realesed,this game will get only better.Now it's time to wait for Bionic Commando(Not Rearmed)for the Xbox 360.
