Digital Entertainment News' David Hinkle wasn't very impressed with the Xbox version of Advent Rising, as revealed in his rather reflective review where he awards Advent an overall scoring of 7.5 out of 10...
With all of its technical glitches, it's a wonder how the QA guys got away with it (or even if there were any). Without these problems, Advent Rising would of easily been in the running for Game of the Year, giving both Sci-Fi junkies and action fans the reality of their most desired dreams. A wonderful story involving aliens, loss, and one man rising up to be a God, who wouldn't enjoy such a story? While the ending may leave gamers wanting more, it still has 2 sequels to follow. Whether or not those games will suffer the faults this one does, the world will have to wait and see. |