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Awesome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 20
Date: August 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Giants has got it all, great graphics, a cool story, and cool characters.

The New Standard in Games is Here!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: September 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Wow! A game of such scope that it's mind boggling! So much thought and originality has gone into this game that when you play it you become aware that you're truly experiencing something on a different level, even outside the realm of videogames as we know them. Planet Moon is really trying something new here, and they deserve a lot of credit for coming up with the goods. This game fun, beautiful, hilarious, and an absoulte must!

More like Giants: Citizen Kreative!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 21 / 28
Date: October 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Giants: Citizen Kabuto is an amazing game. The gameplay has elements of other stategy war games but is otherwise entirely unique and creative. For all the times we wished the video game industry used their fricken brain, here lies a wish come true!

Giants opens the gaming genre to CREATIVITY! Most games are dark. Dark in color (because it's easier to hide everything in shadow instead of rendering everything with the lights on) and Dark in content (most game developers make dark games to try to be "cool" ) but this game left the lights on. The skies are the strangest, most unique thing in gaming. Odd, bright, rich colors that not only make it an alien planet, but a game that stands out among the dark crap. THese guys are artists and as with MDK they aren't afraid to play some scenes for laughs.

I wish all game developers were this brave and inventive instead of hiding behind their cowardly "Messiah" and "Duke Nuke'em" garbage.

Don't get me wrong, there's lots of well-placed action and violence, but they didn't lay it down as a foundation the way other games do.

For you hard-core gamers, the gameplay isn't perfect but it does hold up well. There seems to be some imbalances but I'd rather have the variety of races (they are so ridiculously different that they were probably hard to tune) to play around with than another Quake clone. When I play the 3 races I feel like I'm learning a whole new game. Kind of cool though, 3 games in one.

I haven't played the Network game yet but I'm looking forward to that in the final rev.

Giants is why I buy interactive entertainment. This will tide me over until Black and White comes out.

Giants - Meccaryns, Sea Reapers, Giants - Oh My!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. Or should I say... I love these games. Giants is played through three unique game perspectives: The hilarious cockney Meccaryns, the beautiful and exotic Sea Reapers, and the bone-crunching Giant, Kabuto, himself. The Meccarynss are the technologists - Grenade launchers, mines, jetpacks, etc are all part of the possible inventory items available to the Meccaryns. The Sea Reapers are much earthier. Their arsenal consists of a variety of spells, bows, and a sword. Kabuto uses his teeth and brawn. Each of these options requires that you come up to speed on completely different interfaces. In addition, one can play any of the three choices from a first or third person perspective.

The gameplay can be placed somewhere between RTS and shooter. Several of the missions require that you gather "smarties" and "Vimp meat" to feed the smarties, to help in the construction of a base. Construction follows a short building tree that culminates in a well-fortified base and several key items being made available. The more smarties you have the faster your structures can be completed - assuming that you have kept them well fed. The single player experience is entertaining and serves to gradually bring the player up to speed on the available options for the different playing perspectives.

A full install of this game requires over 1GB of disk space so prepare yourself for removing some of those old games you've been letting languish around thinking that someday you will get back to them. The graphics for this game are beautiful and immersive. Bullets kick up dust, trees sway in the wind, clouds move overhead, terrain and atmosphere are bright and colorful. All this and the beautiful textures provide a rich environment for your gameplaying enjoyment.

Although this game is great...I do have a couple of dings on it. One, there is no save option while working through the missions. If you die be prepared to start over from the mission start. The other ding, a little more frustrating, is that it has crashed to the desktop on a few occasions. Oh yea, I almost forgot, for those who have been waiting for this game in anticipation of getting a close look at the topless Sea Reaper Delphi...forget it, they put a top on her.

This game, along with Sacrifice, should keep me well entertained through the Christmas holidays and into the first part of the New Year where I'm looking forward to getting my hands on, what else? - Warcraft III.

Absolutely breathtaking...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

To start off with this game has some of the most amazing graphics I have ever seen. It takes full advantage of Nvidia and ATI's latest T&L engines with gorgeous results. That being said, you are going to need a serious machine to play this game. If you don't have a Geforce/Geforce2 or Radeon as well as a speedy processor and lots of memory then you are going to miss out on this games outstanding graphics. Fortunatley this game is able to stand on its own without the graphics. The storyline is humorous to the point where I burst out laughing at many of the cutscenes. The gameplay is solid, the designers obviously spent a lot of time with this games engine. I have yet to truly play around with the multiplayer capabilities of this game, but from what I've seen in single player there is real potential for a great LAN game. That being said this game does have a single fault. I have found a few annoying bugs. I am sure these will be fixed in a patch in the near future (they're not that bad anyway) so that shouldn't hold you back from getting this game. If you have the system to support it don't just sit there GET IT!

Great creative effort hurt by corporate meddling.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: December 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Brilliant, funny, creative, stylish--as the other reviewers say, Giants is a terrific game. But it could have been better, if Interplay hadn't panicked.

Interplay Groupthink Screwup #1: publishing this game in December.

Why this is a screwup: The game isn't finished! Along with the play-balancing issues mentioned by other reviewers, Giants sports numerous bugs. These range from minor graphics glitches to fatal system crashes. Of course, of course, a patch will be out, and those of us smart enough to use (and buy from) the Internet will be able to fix the game. But what about the poor schmucks who don't have Inet access? They're screwed, and are stuck with a buggy, unfinished game, all thanks to Interplay's rush to get this thing out by Christmas.

Interplay Groupthink Screwup #2: Changing the blood from red to green.

Why this is a screwup: Insults gamers. This is cowardice, pure and simple. The marketing geniuses thought that red blood was too much for us to handle. Us. Gen X. C'mon, we were buying Robocop action figures when we were 8 years old! Red blood in a computer GAME is not going to traumatize us. Note that this wouldn't be an insult (or a screwup) if the blood had been green from the start. Heck, Kabuto and his pals are aliens; we wouldn't have batted an eye at green blood. But the fact that they changed the color to comply with some lame "decency standard" makes the change an insult.

By the way, the patch to change the blood from green to red is widely available on the 'Net.

Interplay Groupthink Screwup #3: Putting clothes on the Sea Reaper, Delphi.

Why this is a screwup: Again, this insults gamers. The marketing geniuses thought that we'd be shocked by a topless Delphi, EVEN THOUGH THEY'D BEEN FEEDING US SCREENSHOTS OF HER FOR OVER A YEAR. So, they clothed her. Look, everyone knows the vast majority of computer gamers are over 18. We've seen topless women before. Heck, you can see much worse on prime time network television, or a PG-13 movie. It's a *game*, not a big deal. What is a big deal: doing a switcheroo, promoting one thing and delivering another, messing with the developer's vision. Again, this wouldn't be an insult if the character was clothed from the get-go. The developer decided to take the next step (the previous step was taken by Lara Croft), the publisher okayed it, the fans smiled and laughed, and then -BAM- the company caves in and corrupts the original artistic vision. LAME.

By the way, to go back to the original version, just go to the Giants\Bin directory and remove the file "arpfix.gzp".

But even these major screwups don't cripple Giants. The game is visually impressive, genuinelly funny, original, smart, witty, and FUN. Kind of like No One Lives Forever and Sacrifice. Hopefully these games are but an introduction to a new era of games: sophisticated, smart games designed for adults. Not "adult" as in "adult film", but "adult" as in mature, witty, and fun.

It crashed during the install!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: December 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game crashed once during the install and again during the opening movie. Once I got the game actually working I found sub-standard graphics, fuzzy inaudible sound, and gameplay that resembled the earliest attempts at doom (if those attempts were programmed by a four-year-old). Not only did this game waste my money, but it took 2 hours of my life I will never get back.

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.

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.

Great Idea, Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What captures right away the eye are the wonderful landscapes: colors, grass, sea, the sun that moves through the horizon with all its spectacular effects.

Now, what happens in the game: you begin out as a Mecc, a tecnologic warrior that has to help out some strange alien little wierdos called smarties in their combat for existence against the evil sea reaper race.

As the game goes on you will control from one to five meccs, then control a beautiful reaper woman who allies with the meccs and in the end you will become the allmighty Kabuto...but I won't tell you who that guy is, even if it's easy to figure it out.

The game is divided in chapters, 5 for each kind of character you are going to control (mecc, reaper, Kabuto) and the missions are interesting and fortunately not too easy.

Best part of it: the fly sensation. The meccs have a jetpack and the reaper has an incredible "turbo" power that actually make them fly or jump granting you an exceptional almost real "speed and fly" sensation.

Bad part of it:

1) no in mission saves, if you die you start the whole mission over again.

2) bugs, sometimes the whole game blinks out of existence and you end up staring at the desktop after losing an hour and a half on a mission...and as I said, you couldn't save. So, ok, let's do it all over again.

Overall: Great ideas, wonderful grafics, very original plot and characters, original game structure...but it could have been realized better.

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