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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.

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.

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.

Farcical!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 13
Date: May 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Someone, somewhere, somewhen went through a lot of trouble to come up with this beautifully rendered texrured pathetic playing experience.

The stories maybe humourously knit together but it is definitely not what real-time strategy/action gamers would want.

Please look for another title.

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs, Bugs, BUGS!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: August 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I first downloaded the demo of Giants from the Interplay web site. I thought wow this is a great game. There is a nice story line and great graphics. After going through the demo four times I went out and purchased Giants. I have an 800MHz Processor 256 Meg of Ram and a 32 Meg Video card. I more than meet the game requirements. I start playing the game and it hangs (aka the screen/keyboard locks and a reboot is needed). Interplay support line is excellent at responding to questions but after 10 emails back and forth and upreving and back reving drivers and patches, there was absolutely no change. Some people are able to play Giants without lots of crashes but there is a LARGE number of people that cannot play the game without it crashing often. (Often = don't expect to finish a mission without at least one crash per mission) I really think without the crashes this is a wonderful game, but I don't have the patience to keep replaying missions because Interplay didn't get alot of the bugs out of there game before releasing it. The latest patch in June 2001, didn't resolve my issues. The worst thing is even if the demo has no issues on your computer the real game might still not work on your computer. BUYER BEWARE!

Patience is a Virtue

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: March 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I heard terrific things about Giants: Citizen Kabuto and was sadly disappointed when I finally purchased and played it for myself. The most obvious annoyance was the lack of an in game save option. I just don't have patience to play the same mission over and over. And over. If you believe patience is a virtue, you can develop it playing this game. As for me, I couldn't even stand to finish it.

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.

KIDSY fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: June 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I wish I returned this game within the alotted trial period. Unfortunately, I kept it. Initial impact is great visuals and sound. The game is somewhat enjoyable and humorous. But as far as actual gameplay and sustained enjoyability, this game falls short. As Brando said in On The Waterfront, this game "coulda been a contender".

This game is an action game where you play as 3 civilizations...each with their own attributes. A 3rd person(Tomb Raideresque) or 1st person(Half-Life) perspective can be used. This game integrates puzzle elements to the combat. Unfortunately, the puzzles aren't difficult and the combat is poor.

This game was very popular and my review is probably going to be an exception...but check out my other reviews to see if you'd agree.

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 :).

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.

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