D2
Editorial Review
The long-delayed cinematic adventure game D2 has finally surfaced on the Dreamcast. Despite several years in development by innovative Japanese game design team Warp, D2 seems to suffer from a lack of solid gameplay. Fortunately, the gaming environment is stunning to look at.
D2 offers gamers a curious combination of adventurous exploration and first-person shooting. Gamers take upon yourself the role of airplane crash survivor Laura (not to be confused with game icon Lara Croft of Tomb Raider infamy). The game starts with Laura embarking on an airplane flight that soon goes horribly incorrect. The plane is hijacked by a handful of terrorists–but that effort is thwarted when a meteor crashes into the plane. Laura emerges as one of the few survivors of the plane wreck, which has occurred somewhere in the mountains of Canada. Laura must try to survive the icy elements by routinely killing and cooking cute bunnies for food as she travels owing to the snowy terrain. Animal activists might object to the casual nature of these deaths, which are essential to winning the game.
Several tentacle-wielding creatures attack Laura frequently during her travels. When this occurs, the game immediately shifts from third-person to first-person perspective. While these point-and-shoot segments are challenging at first, they soon become tedious. It is impossible to travel more than a few feet without being attacked–and Laura must travel quite a bit to advance the game. Despite the presence of impressive graphics, these action segments amount to small more than a glorified version of the mass-market PC game Deer Hunter.
Still, the ambitious world of D2 is worth a look and a listen. This game is highly stylized in design, including several artistic cinema sequences that will keep you captivated. A stunning new age-meets-opera soundtrack accompanies the title screen, while creepy instrumental music adds tension in all the right places.
With an awkward balance of both adventure and action elements, D2 ultimately succeeds more as a curiosity than a remarkable gaming coup. –Brett Atwood
Pros:
- Art-house appeal for eclectic gamers
- High-quality animation
Cons:
- Awkward gameplay
- Tedious and repetitious action sequences
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I in person did not like D2. My reason is this. Having played and loved Resident Evil, I have a certain benchmark for Survival Horror sports meeting. This game just didn’t reach my high expectations.
You will immediatly find that your part in the game is more as a bystander than as a actual participant. When exploring a room, one zooms in on objects rather than approaches them. You never in fact go about the area. When you are outside, this is different but running from area to area just leads to battles.
And that is one of the other problems I had with this game. Battles consist of you firing a gun at a achargiing enemy and hoping you stop them before they hit you. You can’t go, dodge or run away. That makes for repetitive combat.
The movies are excellent and all but they are very long and they make a large protion of the game. To tell the truth, I bouth this game because it was Mature and I wanted to know why. After an hour of play, I could have cared less. Buy Resident Evil anything instead.
Rating: 2 / 5
This is not a game it is a completely computer rendered movie with excellent Dialogue decent tale and wonderful music. The conundrum is I play video sports meeting to play and this title lacks gameplay in a woeful manner. You switch modes so there is some upclose gun battles alot of em in fact thats all the gameplay really consists of besides wandering around. The hunting mode is fun for about ten minutes until you master it. I would buy this game for under twenty bucks and be pleased with the entertainment regard I got from the FMV’s and the soundtrack both of which are incredible. If you are looking for a scary small movie that you push by the side of you might just like it but rent first.
Rating: 2 / 5
This game had dull graphics akward game play repettition of events not anything like it looked to be. The main chacter dosent even talk. over all this game (…)!
Rating: 1 / 5
“Is this a movie or a video game”. About 75% of the timeline is cinema.The characters don’t even talk in-sync,it’s like watching a japaness dubbed movie.But yet, i don’t want to discourage this type of gameplay,i like to see more of it in the furture, It’s cinematic charm is a plus,it’s weapons are awesome,it’s unadorned gameplay is entertaning.it took me four days to end it.
Rating: 3 / 5
D2 has it’s moments but for the most part this game is just plain dull. The graphics are stellar, the cinematics were well done and the controls are pretty simple to learn, but when it comes to actual gameplay, there is a lack there of. The game consists of four discs of small more then repetive cgi movies. You control a women who never speeks on camera but supposidly does off. You are mandatory to trek back and forth to the same spots over and over again killing the same monsters in the same spots the same way each time. 90% of the time you will have no control of what is going on and just sit back and watch. And for every small thing your character does, open doors, pick up an item and so on, you are mandatory to watch a quick cut scene, Everytime. It gets very ancient very quick. For those who actualy like to play sports meeting rather then look over your friends shoulder and watch, look elsewhere. Don’t even bother with this coaster.
Rating: 2 / 5