Kameo

And finally... For Christmas I got 'Kameo: Elements of Power' for the 360. After 4 years in the making and switching from GameCube to Xbox to Xbox 360 during it's deveopment (mainly caused by Microsoft buying Rare) the final product is the best game I've played in ages. The game varies from action, to adventure, to roleplay seemlessly and just keeps giving the player something new to challenge. The 10 elemental warriors each have their own skills, so each boss involved the challenge of not just how to win, but also who to win with and even combinations of warriors and powers. The puzzle elements were nicely merged into the gameplay, adding the need to solve some logic puzzles to progress, breaking up the 'just kill everything' sections. Saying that, most of the time it was actually a test of which things needed to be killed, rather that just everything, which all added to the enjoyment.

The final scene involved the destruction of the airship fleet (above) to complete the mystical story. I ended the game with a playtime spread over about 5 seperate days of I think a very respectable time of 15hrs 45mins - which included a few of the side quests. I did admittedly take a good 3 or 4 attempts to kill most of the bosses and one particular ice path took nearly 20 attempts to cross grrr... I did get the final boss in one try though :-) Now to return to 'Perfect Dark Zero' and 'NFS:MW' which got put very much on hold while this amazing game took over my life :-)

Game rating: 9.5/10 - A must for any 360 owner, in fact about the best reason for buying a 360 when you can get hold of one :-)
Posted by Antony on December 31, 2005 02:30 PM | TrackBack