Hi, after doing my review of Gun Griffon Blaze i\'d thought i\'d do a Sky Odyssey review since it landed on my doorstep this morning.
First thing a word about where I got it from. I got it from
http://www.infront.co.uk which is basically "Streets Online" they do DVDs, Games etc. I paid £31.99 for it which is a saving of £8. However it took them ages, after ordering on friday morning the day it came out they only despatched on tuesday meaning i got it on thrusday, nearly a whole week. So prehaps EB would have been better.
Anyway onto the game.
Sky Odyssey is classed as flight adventure, a flight sim without the weapons and enermies but instead some serious, more relastic and equally dangourous missions set over 4 unexplored islands.
If you have read any reviews of this game at all you will already know that its been compared to Pilot Wings and that theres some cool missions like refueling from a moving train and flying through caves.
So what can I tell which you may of not heard about before.
Well for starters it seems like a fun game and the graphics in my opinion are decent even though some reviewers have critised them. I\'ve heard of slowdown problems yet only seen them once.
Two other nice things was that this game includes a 50 / 60 Hz option and a screen centering function. Nice one! One strange thing however is although it saves the options you set it doesn\'t save the screen position meaning it needs to be set each time you load the game.
Is the game fun ?
Too right it is, don\'t be put off by the so called lack of action and more sim style gameplay. If you like fun games you will like this. I by no means are a flight sim person, infact this is the first ever one i\'ve owned and I like it.
So whats bad about it then ?
Theres a few little gripes about the game. The first being the plot. It seems to be that they just invented the plot to have one there (basically you need to find map pieces on islands to find some tower). Completing missions simply progress you onto the next missions with a mission containing a map piece every now and then. This plot isn\'t really used at all, infact they claim the island hasn\'t been explorered yet theres small towns and even a rail way on the first island.
The lack of plot doesn\'t really take much away from the game but they could have used a plot to add to the game. So basically you select a mission and fly it out.
The second gripe are the extra modes. Theres a few of them, but really they all are the same. Sky writing is basically drawing shapes following targets, Target mode is basically following targets, training is not really an extra mode just a nice feature and free flight only allows you to fly in a certain level not the whole island.
However the fact that they didn\'t need to include them is nice. Also you can do up your plane with extra little features.
Finally, and this basically can\'t be helped is the game can be frustrating. You make a mistake when flying upside down in a cave and you have to start the whole mission again, from taking off and even getting to the cave. Die a few times and you can be talking 30 mins worth of game play time. This eventually will lead to frustration.
I\'ve touched mainly on the downfalls of this game as if I went into most of the reasons why its fun then i\'d be repeating myself from every other review on the net.
So in short, adventure mode is where this game is fun. The game is by no means outstanding and I disagree when IGN gave it 9 / 10, however the game is certainly fun and its worth more than PSW\'s 7/10.
I would give this game a good fun 4/5.
Richard.
Topic: Sky Odyssey First Impression / Mini Review (UK PAL) (Read 714 times)