yep its true, my march issue came in the mail today and here is the entier review:
square has yet to release an rpg for the ps2, and the other bach of titles- a wrestling game,gekikukan baseball and driving emotion- have impressed us, but only as far as graphics aree concerned. unfortunatly the bouncer continues this downward trend of games with breath-taking graphics and disappointing gameplay. and indeed, the gameplay is the bouncers biggest fault,although you\'ll have acess to three characters with completely different fighting styles, the combat always degrades into button mashing, I attribute this weakness to poor, and often times cheap, enemy AI and the lack of backround interaction. in fact without backround interaction, or even weapons like bats and knives, the gameplay is more limited than brawlers from decades ago, such as double dragon, final fight, and streets of rage. each of these classics include thses 2 features, even if only to a somewhat limited degree.
the gameplay depth rises to even shallower levels
with the bouncers short length, any game that takes an hour and thirty minutes to finish "especially one with an hour of cg" is inexcusable, to say the very least, however depending on wether you actually enjoy the game, this may coem as a relief, never the less, such a minimal amount of gameplay elicits that the focus was placed on the graphics and elaborite cg sequences,while the gameplay came as an after thought.
the only redeeming elementof the bouncer besides the stunning graphics, is the character design. we agree that the three main characters- volt, sion, and kou- are extremly captavating,these are the most detailed characters ever seen in a video game; they surpass the detail of even MGS2 characters!!
the bouncers production value can\'t compensate for the flawed gameplay. if youve been waiting to purchase thisgame, you may want to reconsider.
TOKOYA from play station magazine.
well thats the whole thing, guess im not buying this game after all, ill just rent it .
i think it sucks we have been waiting this long only to hear diapointing news about bouncer, well thats my opinion,
what are yours?
oh and this isnt OPS magazinr this is playstation magazine 100% independent
