A friend and I went down to Funco (we just got one!) and he picked up "The Bouncer", while I reserved a copy of Onimusha (got a free t-shirt also) and Z.O.E . We went back to his place and unwrapped the package to one of the most hyped PS2 games.
First off, the graphics are simply amazing. I was in awe the complete game. The lighting is perfect, the cinemas are amazing--with an extra cool "blur" effect.
The gameplay though..Eh, it is fun at first. But quickly becomes repetive. Fight, cinema, fight, cinema, every once in awhile a battle by yourself. It is a cycle. And while, it is awesome the first few times, it becomes boring very very fast. Granted, the moves look awesome. It just doesn\'t offer enough.
Now, everyone knows people was saying it was short. But, never in my life could I imagine it being this short. He beat it in one sitting and then so did I (SION and Volt). If you skip the cinemas it is extremely short . It doesn\'t offer much difficulty either, so you shouldn\'t have any problems beating it.
Worth buying? No way. It would be an excellent rental, but $50 dollars for a game that lasts at most 2-3 hours is horrible.
Square should make a sequel though. Less cinemas, more varation on the fighting, interactive backgrounds and what not. Could be an excellent sequel. But, as it stands, The Bouncer just falls short and is a pretty big dissapointment.
