The game has extremely good graphics and it has a cool premise behind it, but if you don't have PS Plus to play online, all you can do is boring training and the repetitive, lackluster campaign. I don't have PS Plus and none of the games I play have anything I'm dying to play online, so I see no point of getting it. Sure, for 60 dollars for the year you get free games, but for the whole year there's probably only 2 games I have interest in and it's under 60 bucks to get the disc, so I see no point for my sake. The campaign in this is extremely boring. The dogfights were awesome at first, but it gets way too repetitive because there is no variety in the missions. It's shoot tie fighters, shoot big ship, shoot everything every single mission, so it just gets really boring and there isn't a reason to keep on going. The story is also not executed in the best way possible which could've made this game more entertaining to play. The cast does a poor job with absolutely zero emotion in these characters. It sounds like they are doing bad voices and reading the lines for the first time in a monotone voice while doing these cringy voices for these characters. The characters are also badly written and I care for none of them. I'd prefer to go Nathan Drake on these tie fighters and go at them alone instead of with this emotionless, boring squadron. This game is not good, but at least it's slightly better than Battlefront (reboot). I do not recommend this game. I might try to finish the campaign some day, but I'll see how long I can go without picking this up to see if I have any desire to play this before I plan on trading it in.

GRADE
C

I really really enjoyed this game. It has a low score on here but I think it should be higher. I thought the game was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the characters in the game. I really liked playing as Nathan Drake. He was a really strong protagonist and a lot of fun to play as. Elena and Sully were great side characters too. The pacing in this works well. It goes quickly but not too quick. It let's us spend time in certain areas to gather information to move forward in the adventure. It gives time to explain things and it uses it's time wisely. The cutscenes are all at the perfect length and I thought that when you were playing it had the right amount of combat and exploration. A common complaint in this is that there is too much shooting and less exploration than the following installments, but I didn't mind that. I thought that there was a lot of suspense in the constant combat and that's the point of the game. You're stranded and people are hunting you. That's what it says in the Backloggd description. Whether you are fighting mercenaries or another type of enemy that I won't spoil, there is a lot of suspense, and horror with the other enemy, to make that combat a lot of fun. The constant combat makes sense with the story of you being trapped, and I really like that story. It's a lot of fun and you want to learn more about what is happening so it gives you the draw in for the game immediately as you start playing, and it gives you a lot of interesting mystery to figure out. There are a lot of visual details to help you solve the mystery, and this would've been a lot harder without the visually striking graphics. The production design looks great and I enjoyed spending time on this island and lost city through this story. The characters also look ahead of their time for 2007. This game looks the same as Black Ops 1, and that came out 3 years later. The locations in the game are another thing to talk about. I loved the various locations in the game. They brought character and they were memorable making this game even more enjoyable to play. Some people say the game is boring, but I disagree. I think the game has excellent pacing, striking graphics, fun characters, an investing story, interesting mystery and a lot more to make this one of my favorite video games. I'm extremely excited for the sequels to this!

GRADE
A+

EA really messed up here. I really need to play the older two Battlefront games someday which are supposed to be better and I sure hope so. This game isn't good. The gameplay is extremely rough making it difficult to play, and not in the fun way. There is a bit of lagging in it and it takes WAY too long to load. There aren't enough fun modes in it and the way they developed the style of this game and the various modes wasn't great. The graphics and sound are stunning and the score is amazing as it takes music from John Williams original movie score so at least there's that. It's not entirely terrible, but I wouldn't recommend this game.

(Played on PC but I'll mark as NES anyway)

A truly amazing platform game! It's very short, but it's great!

GRADE
A