One Review

For PlayStation

Rating: Crappy
   Once you get past the stupid title (What are they going to 
call the sequel?  Two?), you'll find that the game itself 
isn't much better than the title.  The concept of One is 
that you have to run around and shoot everything that moves,
similar to Contra.  It sounds fun, but trust me, it isn't. 
First of all, there is absolutely no story line presented in
the game, and even the story line page in the instruction 
book is extremely vague.  Secondly, I don't know why the 
developers even added checkpoints to the game at all for you
to continue from when you die since they're so far apart. And
why would they try to incorporate platform elements in a 
shooter?  This would be bearable if there were at least some
decent control, but instead the jumping is very inconsistent.
But the biggest reason that the game is so frustrating to 
play is because the gameplay is so unbalanced.  The best 
example of this is actually the first level, where you have 
no idea what the heck is going on.  All you know is that you
can't seem to shoot the helicopters or whatever that is 
shooting at you, all you can do is run.  Random rocks fall 
from above and you pray you have the luck (luck, not skill)
to avoid them.  You keep running and then you get to these 
stupid jumping parts where you have to jump when you get to 
a part where the platform is crumbling from beneath you. The
problem is that it's next to impossible to tell what's a 
collapsing platform and what isn't a collapsing platform, 
which makes for some extremely frustrating falls to your 
death. Then you throw down the controller in disgust and dive
for the power button. Then, in my case, I realize that I have
a review to write and thus I have to play the game more, and
with the greatest of hesitation I resign myself to the fact 
that I have to turn the game back on and suffer more. When a
game dishes out so much boredom and frustration to me like 
One did, you can bet I'm going to dish some back with a 
scathing review such as this one.  I have since poured 
Coca-Cola all over the One CD and proceeded to slap it 
several times, saying "How does it feel?  How does it feel?"
That's how much I hate it.  
(You get the point, don't you?  One sucks.)









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