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the non review

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: February 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I would love to give this potentially good game a review but unfortunately it constantly locks up and it took me numerous days just to get to the third level.I finally gave up. My system is very stable and plays ALL of my other games without any problems and it is relatively current,i.e. 1000p3/geforce2, etc. My suggestion to all potential buyers is to wait until the new patch comes out and check with the message boards to see if it fixes the numerous bugs,crashes and lockups.

Hogwash!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The guy who gave the low scoring review is just blaming the game for his machine's inadequacies. On top of this he says it has substandard graphics! Hah! Every single review I've read of this game (about 20 so far) hail the graphics as some of the best ever! They also claim it as one of the best games of the year. The fact of the matter is that this is a brilliant game with addictive gameplay and a hilarious story. On top of this, any bugs have now been corrected with a recently released patch.

unmatched

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have been an avid game player for over ten years now, and a game of this quality( graphics, controls, humor, gameplay, replay value, etc...) is very rare. I read these reviews of people having problems with their computer, and problems with multiplayer? THE GAME HAS A MULTIPLAYER MODE!( and the ability to save after each successfully completed mission I might add) So if you don't know what you are talking about, or if your computer is just out of date and cannot handle the graphical excellence this game has to offer, please do write a bogus review! This game is amazing in every way. Since I purchased it two weeks ago not a night has gone by that I haven't been glued to my screen. Do yourself a favor, its a good game.

Excellent Game- Near Perfection

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I really REALLY wanted to give Giants a perfect game. After anticipating this game for over a year, It is everything I expected it to be and more! I would buy this game alone for the breathtaking graphics. If you own a Geforce 2 and dont buy this game it is a crime! This game gives u three totally different races each plays differently. Plus it also has boat racing and air flyinch machines, like 5 games in one! The reason I have it 4 instead of 5 stars is of course bugs which most were fixed in the patch, but most importantly multiplayer and no level maker. Multiplayer could have been the best ever for this, but it was quickly made with very little features, plus laggy! Too bad because a Starship troopers like mod on this would rule!

Godly

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Mere words cannot express how much I love this game. The medium of dance maybe more appropriate. It has its problems (in that there are a few bugs in the non patched version), but all such concerns are quickly swept aside when you start playing it. Probably the most funny game since Sam and Max or Monkey Island, the visuals (bearing in mind they are now 7 years old) are stunnignly beautiful, the plot is well crafted and exciting, the gameplay is ludicrously fun, the music superb, Its all so individual and lovely to use. It has what is lacking in so many modern games: that is personality and soul. Buy it. you will not regret it! (I have left the more serious reviewing to the others below, who did a very good job at describing why its so good,) I hope my hyperbole will convince even one person to get this hugely neglected and forgotten game.

Game of the Year!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

"Giants: Citizen Kabuto" Reviewed on primary system: -650Mhz AMD Athlon processor -128Mb of Random Access Memory (RAM) -Matrox Millenium G400 3D card -Windows 98 SE

Secondary system: -550Mhz Pentium III processor -128Mb of Random Access Memory (RAM) -3DFX Voodoo3 3500 TV-out 3D card -Windows 98 SE

GRAPHICS - 5/5: On both systems the graphics were absolutely astounding, however the secondary system had some crucial graphical problems with the game -- the primary system ran the game perfectly. Framerate got considerably slow, but that was typical due to the fact that neither systems are the latest-greatest, and it never slowed down to the point that you got dizzy or couldn't play it. The textures are of high quality, the models are extremely detailed, and all of the other graphical effects (light-reflective water, sun glare, bumpmapping, footprints, etc.) in the game will simply take your breath away. I have all the confidence in my voice when I say, "Playstation 2, eat your heart out."

SOUND - 4/5: The sound is of standard high quality (22,050Mhz, 16-bit) when many games are at 8-bit and lower Mhz. Voice acting is professional and solid; and crisp, clear ambience(background)/sound effects make G:CK a pleasure to listen to. The only problem is that, in the cutscenes, the sound sometimes is out of sinc with the picture, but it's not too much of a problem. Oh, did I mention that the music is composed by Mark Snow, the man behind the music of Fox's "The X-Files"? You won't be disappointed in what you hear.

CONTROL - 5/5: Movement is classically Quake-ish, and everything else is easy to learn and, if all else fails, easily customizable. Perfectly responsive to the buttons you press, G:CK has solid controls.

GAMEPLAY - 5/5: One word : WOW. Not since Half-Life have I had such a great adventure. Plus, to be perfectly honest, Giants's single-player adventure blows Half-Life or any other game to the dust. The story is solid and engrossing, the action is intense, and your goals are clear (no need to look up walkthroughs). The movies that play between 80% of the levels both progress the storyline and are just incredibly witty and funny -- it's a game that doesn't try to take itself seriously, and it just makes the experience better. The variety of ways to play the game also keep you totally into what's going on. Whether it's playing as the marine-like Meccs, the magical Delphi, or the enormous Kabuto (with each species having completely different ways of accomplishing their goals), you'll be running a-muck shooting, building bases, gathering Smarties, collecting souls and meat, JetSki racing, casting a wicked tornado onto the ground, and more! The only thing that *could* be a downside to Quake fanatics is the fact that you play the game's species in a specific order (you can't *choose* which species you want to be in a level). However, I don't see how the game could follow a story if you didn't play in a specific order... I don't know - you can decide about that one. But the gameplay is excellent. Oh yeah, and there's multiplayer... But you'll really be in your computer chair for the single-player.

OVERALL: If Giants: Citizen Kabuto doesn't get dubbed as "game of the year", then I will wonder what our world has come to. People who whine about Giants being buggy and crashy should be ignored - you get plenty of notice when the box notes of its modifications for "AMD Athlon Processors" and "Nvidia", and on my primary system (which runs off of an AMD Athlon), Giants ran *perfectly* with no crashes or bugs whatsoever. With incredible graphics, great and clear sound, and awesome gameplay, Giants: Citizen Kabuto is the must-buy of 2001!

Fun but uneven and underdeveloped

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought Giants with gleeful expectations. In some regards they were met, as a lot about this game is quite fun. The reviews I'd read online made it out to be utterly amazing.

Unfortunately, it didn't fulfill these expectations. Yes, it is incredibly witty, everyone will get several laughs out of it. It is pretty and gameplay is largely interesting. However, it is not without its drawbacks. First, it is very buggy and performance is horrible, even on my rather decent system (Athlon 800 w/ geforce256 ddr). When compared to Sacrifice, which runs beautifully on my box with full detail, it is aparent that the Giants engine wasn't worked on enough. Patches haven't fixed this.

Also, the plot is very shallow, and the action can get awfully repetitive. Controls are fairly poor, e.g. Kabuto's minions aren't usable as they were intended because they must be micromanaged. The game has potential and a few laughs, but is ultimately lacking.

good idea, horible game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: January 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

pro's:

1.amazing graphics,almost completely revolutionary.

a.good looking water/sky/ground.

b.models are well done and skinned with amazing detail.

c.fabulous animations/cutscenes

d.extra fx like magic/weapon fire is well animated and thought out creativly.

2.story

a.damb funny

con's:

1.gameplay singleplayer

a.no save feature

b.repeditave killing of overly spawned tedious battles

c.after playing a level 5 times in a roe it becomes boring.

2.gameplay multiplayer

a.completly unbalanced gameplay.-all you have to do is have a base with mecc turrets, and a heli pad to rule over everything i the game.

b.other races are way inferior to the mecc,no matter how many team members you have.

c.completly unfun in a lan enviornment.

thoses are my pro's and cons. if i could give it a 0 star i would.

Whoops - this thing has some problems

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: April 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game seems to have some technical problems. My computer hung during the install (not the fault of the game), and there now seems to be no way to install or uninstall the game, nor will it play. There seems to be a bug in the InstallShield that will not allow uninstall, because I am using "share level" security, instead of "user level." This appears to be a problem with InstallShield -- Catch 22. This seems to preclude any of the "normal" ways of getting around install problems. The executable file to start the game cannot be found on disk 1, and disk 2 evidently is accessible only as a continuation from disk one, which is not accessible due to the hang on the install. This seems to compound the InstallShield Catch 22. Presto, no way to make the thing work. If this one hangs up on install - it appears to be "toast." The companie's FAQ is not helpful is just an ad, and the user support message board is a "dead link." Not much support so far. There seems to be some mention of this problem with InstallShield, in the ReadMe file. If their user support gets back to me with a fix, I will get back here and eat these words. Cheers.

Fun for a while, drags later.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After starting up Giants I was greated with beautiful graphics (though even on a P2 400 w/ 16MB video RAM I had the detail way down) and a hilarious cutscene. At first I was entralled by this game. The whole first campaign (Meccs) was had a nice gradual learning curve, a fun variety of missions, and the funniest cutscenes I've seen in a game in a long time. My only complaint was the base building that seemed to be added to the game to spruce up multiplayer, but is otherwise sorely lacking compared to other RTS games. But it's an action game and that can be forgiven.

Then I started the second campaign, the Sea Repaer's Story. The control was nice and they again started with a nice learning curve. The first few cutscenes were not as good as the Meccs campaign, but still amusing. Then suddenly they gave me a base and I had all the "technology" (or spells for the Sea Reapers). Then after destroying an enemy installation to complete a level, no cutscene. Now I was worried.

Kabuto. Initially I was thrilled. Running around stomping buildings, eating people, and just generally causing chaos was great. Then a little later it was getting tedious. By the end of the campaign I was just racing through the levels as fast as possible because they were so repetitive. Unfortunately there weren't even any cutscenes in between missions. Just one at the start and two at the end so I wasn't even all that motivated to go through those levels.

Is the game fun? Yes, it is. However, be warned that playing the single player game may get old eventually. I honestly haven't really tried the multi player much, perhaps picking up your friends as Kabuto and ripping their heads off could be far more entertaining. It sure sounds like it :).

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