Conker: Live & Reloaded
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Video Game Reviews of Conker: Live & Reloaded
Customer Review: Different Enough from the Original to Make it Worth Your While with the Same Old CBFD Goodness
Summary: 5 Stars
As someone who played the original CBFD (Conker's Bad Fur Day to those who don't know) until this game was released on Ye-Olde-N64, I have every single line memorized and quite frequently quote the game like a little dork. Therefore, I was able to make quick judgments about this game right away. Though very skeptical about the changes made, my overall view of this game is a good one.
-GRAPHICS-
Well everyone knows the reason to get this game is the beefed up graphics from the original. I must say that they are very impressive. The poo glistens in the sunlight for crying out loud. That's some fine graphical power. I'm sure this uses the Xbox to its full potential (just like the original did for the N64) as I was able to spot the occasional slow down, never to a horrible extent mind you. However, there are some graphical errors like missing explosions or the occasional no splashing when Conker dives into the water. It kinda makes Conker's line: "Is this the testing department's day off or something" hit a little too close to home. I was also more than a little disappointed to find that characters expressions are less frequent than in the first, though the body language is more predominant. But you can't deny the beauty of this game despite its downsides.
8/10
-SOUND-
This was the nicest surprise for me. I couldn't believe how wonderful, crisp, and clear the voice acting was in comparison to the original. There's no little ringing in the background and there's no muffling of certain characters. Not only have the voices been fixed and the sound effects re-mastered, but the music has been changed as well. It's all still the same basic melody but with better instruments and overall quality. The lava-board racing scene has sweet rocking electric guitar music. Just look at it as a remixed soundtrack. Even the opera singer for the Great Mighty Poo is different and, oddly enough, more baritone and not able to go as high as the previous one. I really didn't have any problems with these basic changes.
However, there are quite a few extreme changes to the censorship. For some odd reason, best known to old Billy the Microsoft King, this game is more censored than the original. There are now no S-words or TW-words left uncensored. This completely changes many things, such as the Great Mighty Poo Song. It is censored with farting noises, which is really cheap and quite stupid. Also, I don't get why they didn't censor the British pronunciation of the S-word, rhymes with "mite." Oh well, it's not too terrible, but it and sometimes too soft music did lower the overall score of what is otherwise terrific sound. The added voice acting was really apparent and stood out from the original Conker's lines and Gregg's original lines for that matter too.
8/10
-GAMEPLAY-
Just like the original, there are two major parts to this that will earn their own scores.
-Single Player-
To tell the truth, there are these little bursts of new content that pop up not very frequently. The rest of the game is almost identical to the first. I will try not to ruin anything when describing the differences. Right off the bat of playing, you'll find that there are more monsters around after an extremely modified training level. Then, not so much is different for a long time. Then during the last part of the game, everything changes and is very different, followed by familiar material only to be replaced with surprising Tediz encounters.
To be completely honest, most of the new changes work but parts of the game were made easier, like the cows. Now the cows all only take one hit. I don't why they made these changes but I think it hurt the constant raise of difficulty that you went through in the original. This means that for a portion of the game, everything is equally as difficult, or easy depending on how you look at it, and then all of a sudden, The Great Mighty Poo doesn't just take one hit. Whoa, where did he come from! I only had to feed him three sweet corns instead of six! So that's definitely a problem.
However, like I said before, many more monsters roam the land and add new challenges to you mastering your combo attack. That's right, you don't just swing a frying pan by pressing B. And some things like being able to move while peeing and crosshairs for throwing knives are almost essential changes. Personally, the ability to move the camera with the right analog stick won it all for me. These are good changes. Personally, I think they could have gotten by without changing any of the gameplay and just giving us camera controls and better graphics. I think the score might have been higher if that were the case.
8/10
-Multiplayer-
So much that is different is still so similar and the reason to buy the original is the same reason to buy this one. That reason is the multiplayer. All the original favorites are not here. No Weasels and no Cavemen. However, there is a very intense and very fun series of battles between the Squirrels and Tediz. One brand spankin' new feature is the class system, which I adore... utterly... You pick between Grunts, Demolishers, Longrangers, Sky Jockeys, Sneekers, and Thermophiles. Each have their own series of weapons, grenades, and specialties. They also have various other differences like vehicles, upgrades, and Special Ordinance devices (like turrents or mines). Despite what most people say, mainly the people being killed, I believe that each class is fair and can be stopped by the right kind of teamwork. Because Sky Jockeys are the only class that can fly, most people don't allow them in a game. But they can easily be taken down by a Demolisher with upgraded guided missiles. You see, strategy and teamwork are the key.
Can't stand the presence of others or don't have Xbox Live? No problem, mon frere. The Conker Bots are back, called Dumbots. They only have three levels of difficulty but their gameplay will seem familiar, that is, Einstein is back. By playing Chapter X, the multiplayer storyline, you can unlock various niceties. But most things that are unlockable are for Live and can therefore only be attained by online play. I do imagine that Chapter X would get boring more quickly than the original's multiplayer games, so beware if you don't have Xbox Live that multiplayer might be disappointing if you played the original.
I love multiplayer and I think it's intense and when you finally get everything straight, it only gets better.
10/10
-Overall Conclusion-
So the changes made are good sometimes and bad other times. There are even un-ignorable bads like the soccer-mom-censorship. But I still stand by the fact that though it may not be a better game than CBFD, it is still a great game with really fun multiplayer that will keep you busy until Xbox360 at least. So don't go in with too high of an expectation, CBFD fanboys, because it is not what you will play. Keep that in mind, and you'll have a ball playing an above and beyond decent remake of one of your favorite games.
8/10Conker: Live & Reloaded
Customer Review: Conker live and reloaded
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my favorite game in the whole world. I got this game for the 64 when it came out and i had lots of fun with it, and so when they brought it out for the xbox i had to get an xbox just for this game. This game has a long story mode, and a never ending multi player mode. I played this game almost everyday on multi player and never get tired of it, i have gotten so good i can actually go pro. This is a game like no other game out there, i cant even explain in words how fun this game is. Defenatly buy this game, you wont be dissapointed, i bet you'll fall in love with it just like i did.Customer Review: Sweetness
Summary: 4 Stars
Great game remade for the X box with graphics that almost look as tho it was made for X box 360. Not too long and not too short, the game is not as difficult as the original N64 version but that doesn't make it any less entertaining. Some new material has been included into the game, including X box live multiplayer mode. Even when not playing online still fun to play with your friends or by yourself in the single player story mode. Overall i give it a 7 out of 10.Customer Review: Fun game
Summary: 5 Stars
This game is a classic to have it is fun and worth putting in a collection of games. I have it for my xbox 360 ,and worth the price and it is hard to find.Customer Review: The greatest war game I ever played!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have played many war games and not many of them live up to the hype. Live and Reloaded surpasses them all. The war missions is the only reason that I play it. It makes you feel like your there. My favorite character to play as is the thermophile who can make his opponents disintegrate using the fauster or even burn them to death using the sinurator. I use the long ranger for shooting far away taking my opponents heads off with the sniper. The demolisher just blows my opponents up to smitherines with the bazooka. I get most of my kills with the sneeker who can do a sword spin that can take more than one of my opponents heads when they are trying to ambush me. You can even use vehicles to run over your opponents. I have read some of the negative reviews about this game on how it was a dissapointment, they try to compare it to the original, even that game was really good, but it was more animated and mostly focused on humor not to mention that it also had chain saws. This game was more realistic than the original. The graphics are over the top and remember its not suppose to be pretty. I would recommend this game to anybody who wants to be behind enemy lines.