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CYCLE WARRIOR: The concept is good but the execution poor.

Robotech Invasion PS2, XBox

The game:

Robotech Invasion is an Americanised cartoon that chronicles the adventures of Scott Bernard and his crew as they fight the monstrous Invid for control of the Earth.

Their mission is to rid the planet of the alien Invid that planned on continually colonizing our world and in order to achieve this Cyclone action, which offers onfoot and motorcycle play modes.

Straight up this appears to be technically obsolete and often unpolished compared to the big budget games such as HALO 2. As it is heavily based on foot and motorcycle action it is classed as both a first and third-person shooter.

The play:

The game’s 3D environments offer freeform action in expansive outdoor environments swarming with, unfortunately absurdly stupid enemy AI (if you can side step and shoot you’ve mastered the game!).

There are two parallel scenarios: playing as the second character reveals a new perspective and plot details. Control Cyclone vehicles lack a realistic feeling of momentum, balance and traction.

The experience:

This game is quite underwhelming in the graphics department it does offer a lot of onscreen action at any given time.

The one positive feature – it is designed in such a way so that there is rarely, if ever, a segment of loading.

Only where the environments change dramatically do you have to stop and wait for one breath to continue. In that solitary aspect it’s very well done – just a shame that the rest of the game is poor.

– SQNLDR Nick Hogan