Criticisms:
- Overloaded control: Yes, that is true, perhaps at the beginning or if you've played the demo. At the latest in the 2nd Act they passes into the blood, because you have to master easy!
- Game time: after 5 hours by one. That's enough for most to reproach the shooter the disproportionality of the price. But Vanquish is loading formally a play through the game multiple times! Not because of the story, but for the replay value! The aim is to improve his technique, to be faster, and the challenges to crack. Only then can Vanquish its full potential!
- Missing MP mode. Yes, Vanquish goes alone and it would have been nice to see how an MP fireworks would have looked in the Vanquish World. But honestly: Even Gears of War (part 2 at least better, in order) was in the multiplayer is not the hoped-for mega-titles in the style of Uncharted 2 (oddly enough one of the best MP titles on the PS3), Halo, Battlefield or Call of Duty or Medal of Honor. Vanquish as has potential, but Platinum Games have now times focused on the single player mode. Then you should consider when buying. A Coop would offer itself, this really is a point which is a pity. Couple Vanquish would really untopbar!
- Level Design tubular. One criticism that I can not understand, since all come out open-world title. Yes, it is scripted, there's no tomorrow, but for staging this is only advantageous see Modern Warfare 1 + 2. The battle arenas and weapons give enough opportunities, "open" make to his style of play, you do not need so everything on implement hook or by crook in open form.
To summarize:
- Playing time a little short, just when you do not want to play through more than once the title
- No MP mode + Coop
Otherwise there is little to criticize in Vanquish and this is due to the following points:
+ Vanquish is crammed with adrenaline! This is not Darun, a long time to hide behind barricades or proceed slowly, here tactic is always combined with action! Actually, Vanquish is a classic arcade shooter: Easy to learn, hard to master! Yes, I can come in 5 hours through the game in the simplest of difficulty - but will you do it? The charm lies in the fact but to adapt his style of play to the scenario and as smoothly as possible to shoot through the game - a way of playing that is modeled in my opinion very strong old 8-bit games.
+ Vanquish is playful class! And that is the consistent SciFi setting with 80-story -D, you really should not take very enrst. ;-) But the Japanese Platinum set with Vanquish is a war scenario that offers so much more intension, as tens of other shooters, which are currently on the market. Opponents behave at all action not as Pappgegner, the design of the Vanquish World intersects with Halo and Mass Effect has enough own Japan mech cyber punk flair that Vanquish with nothing and no one can be compared and thus significantly from Shooter -Einheitsbrei lifts.
+ In contrast to all other shooter Vanquish degenerated to children's carnival events, because only when Vanquish, the clock rate is so high that a crashing down jaw in the boss fights. Quite the Bayonetta style is really struggling here against bosses, which are a tribute to the Probotector / Contra opponents 80s. If Konami eventually revived a new brand (such as Castlevania recently), then they just need to register with Probotector / Contra Vanquish as their model: they must be staged Figts, so a reboot of a series should look like!
+ Many popular shooter from the present generation be forgotten. But is dan you still remember Vanquish that all "realistic" war scenarios and defies a completely own way - thereby still pretty much to mock each other shooters because of coolness- and experience factor is so much higher! No boring slow passages, no mediocre side quests, no average shooting sequences.
+ In Vanquish goes off every minute of Punk! Man you just have to cope with the speed to rise really to the adrenalin trip, only Vanquish shows its true strength and the real face of what the developers have designed. In today's video game world, however, not just a crowd-pleaser, ultimately you want to win with as little use as much effects from the game back. Since Vanquish does not, the musss the players already own research through his style of play - sometimes several times playthrough, which nowadays has hardly relevant.
+ And Vanquish comes almost without blood! Where other shooters sensational use the Gore-factor, to get attention, Vanquish uses the sophisticated game mechanics and the action at all times fantastic scenery! That then also the struggles make as much humor, that the variety is ensured at all times, you have the developers credit for. Vanquish would have an absolute alibi shooter may be, which is boring after at least 1 hour, because always only the same thing happens.
CONCLUSION: Vanquish is a konsequnt developed by old school tradition Shooter which enters no compromises: No genre mix with slow passages from agents shooters, no multiplayer orientation as Battlefield single player campaigns. Vanquish wants only one thing: Tough and incredibly fast action, all wrapped in an intuitive control and a game system, which could be from the 80s. Anyone remember Probotector / Contra, knows what awaits him in Vanquish: Epic boss fights and no second rest.
While Vanquish uses given genre conventions from Uncharted, Gears of War or diversenen other shooters, but overall Vanquish offers a package that is nowhere to be found. And that Vanquish is fresh and lively and shows that Japanese development team can make Shooter ... The Krea tivie potential in Japan has been far too little exploited, if materials such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell and Co. look at ! Even though I'm not a fan of Anime and Vanquish was executed brushed on the Western market, the Japanese origin is unmistakably. And instead of as junk as Chromehounds, Armored Core or Gundam rauszubringen which is technically and playfully load gene level, it is worth exploring in Japan Vanquish: So should look shooter, then you have to buy not only in Europe or the US. ;-)
PS: I recommend a reading to match the "Vanquish Signature Series Guide". Not really expensive and you can completely decrypt Vanquish - without so that the purchase price of the game is very well laid out.
PPS: Technically Vanqusish incidentally just as impressive as the competition from other renowned studios - here the Bayonetta engine shows its true strength. Also on the PS3!
