Yes it does live up to the hype,,while playing the game if you are beating up someone and your are close to another character and he says "you ready",,I did something with the buttons and the character grabbed the bad guy and a smooth looking cut type scene happened,,,like it was MATRIX style,,then it went back to the regular fighting,so far I have not noticed any ways to change the level difficulty I think it plays on a same level for all gamers. One part in the game which will make you memorize the button layout on the controller is when you pick the character with the zebra looking tattoos he goes thru a security area disguised as one of the guards and everytime a guard comes up to you{the game takes you on a certain path, thats why you run into the guards so you can\'t avoid them} they do a pose and you have to match that pose from the button that it corresponds too, sounds easy but believe me I was saying some things I should not be saying when I could not get passed the 4th guard. If you mess up then you will have to fight about 5 of them bad boys..there is a story mode in which certain points in the game you can switch characters (way cool) there is a survival mode(way cool in which you can gain other characters to play in(oh yeah secret characters) have not played with that part much. There is a couple of cut scenes that look like the graphics from the SILENT HILL trailer. The only thing you have to get used to is the button configuration,,for example you can punch with the triangle button and kick with the triangle button..all depends on how hard you press the button,,that goes for all the other buttons too,,so you gotta get used to that feature. There is a option where you can set the level of pressure on the buttons to make it easier. Wow I just wrote a book,,,lol...
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