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Awesome show, average game. | | Mitch from Atlanta, GA says (9/Apr/2004): | Let's get one thing straight. Alias the TV show rules and, in my humble opinion, is the best drama / action show on TV. My feelings about Alias the game are somewhat mixed, though. It just doesn't live up to it's high-calibre TV counterpart. Acclaim did a decent job of throwing out the nods to Alias fans in abundance, but those who are not fans may feel a bit lost at times. The gameplay is standard stealth action fare, so there really isn't anything about the game that will blow your mind or make you squeal with glee, but it remains a mostly solid, playable game. You sneak past guards, put your back against the wall, peek around corners, break necks, use guns, which all work decently during the game. Changing costumes on the fly and hacking computers with a cool Mastermind-type game are both cool additions. I do have a problem with the fighting, though. In the show the main character, Sydney Bristow, uses all types of cool fighting moves to best her opponents, and those moves appear in the game, too, but you don't have any control over what moves you execute. Sound lame? Well, it is. There is an attack button and a special move button, but niether one is really controlled by the player. You push the button and the game seems to randomly select whether attack means "punch" or "kick", or whether special move means "sweep kick" or "clothesline." That is the biggest problem I have run into. Alias just doesn't seem as polished as it could have been. The voice acting is way above average, because the show's cast lent their voices to their respective in-game characters. That's the way all TV / Movie-to-game voicework should be done. If you love the show, you'll like the game, but all the rest of you may have a hard time dealing with an average game that you have no emotional ties to. This is a fan-only type of affair.
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