Brikar

Anyone played this game yet? It's fucking awesome. A bit too short, I beat it in just over 8 hours, but now I'm going back through it again because the PS2 version has the original POP on it as well as an unlockable extra. The control is a little inaccurate in some places, but overall, this is a great game, with lots of great puzzles to solve. The combat gets a bit repetitive unless you actually force yourself to do a lot of the different moves that are available, and a lot of the fights go on for far too long. You'll come to a section and just have to fight wave after wave of enemies, and then go huge long stretches where you're the only living thing around.

The voice acting is good, though it's odd that all the Persians have british accents. At least it's consistent, though. The cinematics are really cool, and well-directed.

But the real meat of the game is the environmental puzzles. You've got to run, jump, climb, swing, and shimmy your way through any number of combinations of huge gaps, saws, spiky poles, floor spikes, and other stuff as you make your way through the crumbling Persian city to the Tower of Dawn to stop the sands of time from consuming the world.

It's really amazing. The feeling you get when you leap from column to column over a bottomless abyss, then across to a flag pole that you swing around, let go and flip to the next one, then run across the wall and push off it to the next... god, It's amazing. Loads and loads of fun. I can't believe how much I like this game right now.

9 out of 10.

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