Purchased the launch edition via the hong kong ms store for a grand total of $390 HK dollars which equates to £30.93 and downlading as I type this!!!

Good lad Jork! I'm lvl 11 now done earth and most of the moon but happy to replay through if you want to hit it up this weekend. It's definitely a game best played with others, I did the first raid earlier on today and it was absolutely class! Really I pressed with the game so far, my only dismay is that there are alot of missions on one planet all in the same place so you replay areas alot. Other than that it's a brilliant cross of fps and rpg !

currently 130 hours in lightning returns
94 hours in ffX hd remake

So with a little more time with the game my conclusion is simple,not the great game we were all expecting and very limited to what you do and achieve ,all the missions are virtually go there do that,kill this and kill that .

No way on earth this will get game of the year and as soon as the likes of Far Cry 4 turns up it will be quickly forgotten if it hasn't already.

As for the reviews,well they haven't exactly been mind blowing or over positive with Gamespot giving it a 6/10 followed by many more average reviews with the odd exception .

Don't get me wrong the mechanics,music,and feel of the game are very well done and the collision detection and movement are spot on,but I'm afraid it doesn't say to me ...come on put me on and play me some more.

In fact I spent all Friday Evening watching the first series of The Walking Dead after so many people telling me I should give it a try....

I new when I first started watching the intro to the first episode this was a quality production,I mean Gale Anne Hurd producer,James Cameron other half and then when you see the director credits we have Frank Darabont who made 2 of the greatest films of all time...The Green Mile and Shawshank Redeption .....say no more......

Fantastic program ....love it

Just finished the moon missions, other than the free play ones and I've gotta say I'm impressed!! It's a game I'm already thinking about going back over it with the different classes which is something I never even consider!!
As to whether I do that is a different matter altogether seeing as I have the attention span of a moth lol
Overall I feel it just has that almost perfect gameplay for me (slightly repetitive being my only gripe).

It's a nice looking game Jorkila but game of the year it isn't ,repetitive been the key word like you say.

Not the blockbuster title most expected and for me a game I have virtually forgotten about already as I go online for a master class of tactical play that is The last of us.

At this moment in time only a few games been released have me excited,and GTA update on the Playstation 4 and Xbox one isn't one of them ,even with the graphical enhancements ,and releasing this on the exact day as Far Cry 4 is stupid even though it will sell millions over again.

Not saying I won't buy it but Far Cry 4 has me really hyped ...

Edited by time2die (Sun 14-Sep-14 16:03:56)

In terms of graphics and game mechanics it is brilliant, I cannot fault it at all. The main problem for me is the repetitive nature of the game and that there is no real story or life to the world. I completed it yesterday, I've hit lvl 20 and can't lvl anymore now without getting equipment with "Light" in it so that I can go to Light Lvl 21, Light Lvl 22 etc. I believe it caps out at Light Lvl 30.

I did every mission on Hard so that all that is left for me to do now is replay the game again but on heroic and focus on getting legendary gear. I've got all blue gear at the moment, so I just need to work up.

I think it's designed to get you to the top lvl quickly so that you can then focus on end game gear, so it's very much like an MMO in that sense. The online play is fun, I like control (which is basically Headquarters from other FPS games) but not a fan of the other ones.

I will continue to play it and get some legendary gear and now I'm lvl 20 I have unlocked the extra hard Strike Missions, which are for lvl 22 to 28 so that should be a challenge. They are adding their first 6 man raid in the next week or so, hopefully that will be fun.

I think ultimately it will get traded for one of the games coming out in October (Evil Within / Alien)

Oh I should add as well that it's really not anywhere near as fun playing it by yourself, find a friend to play it with and it makes the game ALOT more fun

I could not agree more and the more i play it the more bored i become with it,i haven't got the patience you have but i will trade this game in a matter of weeks if not days .

At first i was well impressed and likes it ,but within a day or so i found myself not that excited about playing it and quickly moved on to other games that i enjoy far more.

Problem with this game was the extreme amount of hype and to be honest it got nowhere near living up to it.

Yup I agree, I think the Gamespot review is "spot" on, excuse the pun it sums it up nicely. Although I notice all these faults with it and am aware of it, yet if my mate is online I will definitely hop on to play with him again as we had a hell of a lot of fun mowing down mobs