doghell

Heavenly Sword deserves better than this. Specifically as an action adventure game. I cant understand why everyone over looked it. It offers great variety, excellent gameplay and a good story with phenomenal cut scenes. The shiting styles, different approach to god of war style fighting and combos, and constant gameplay changes was great. Stays fresh by switching between hueg artillery battles, up close combat, ranged combat etc etc. if you own a ps3 you totally owe it to yourself to check this game out. at least rent it. No idea why it failed critically. They complain about its lenght, but personally i appreciate 10 hour quality story driven experiences over a 20 hour repetitive struggle. Not as epic as god of war, but still very rewarding and a very similarly structured yet different gameplay experience.

graphics - absolutely brilliant
gameplay - awesome mechanics, good combos, good variety
story - good
length - good

in games like metal gear and gears of war the cutscenes use in-game assets most of the time. even if they are pre-rendered. its easier that way. there isnt any load time, cause its pre-rendered, and the devs use in-game assets (sometimes they up the poly counts a little) so that the transition is smooth.
this seems like the best way.

although pure cg cutscenes rock when they done right. check blizzards stuff man.