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I'd like to start off by talking specifically about what bugged me the most with this game.   The inability to alter the camera angle like so many other third person games allow you to do, or if they don't they do it usefully.   In this game, you get absolutely NO camera control. As you make your way around through the levels, going upward, downward, around bends, the camera (trying to help you but absolutely NOT) turns to show you stuff, meanwhile you are getting shot by enemies offscreen. WHAH?    Okay that was almost enough for us to disregard even making a game guide for this title.

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Sometimes you have to run right at the camera and not even know if you are going into a trap. Um, that's kind of like cheating isn't it? I mean I understand the cinematic effect they were going for, but it really is more important to SEE where you are going, not where you are coming from. Talk to anyone who knows how to drive. And speaking of driving, if you jump into a vehicle and even if you are on the screen going left or right, you still have to push forward… that gets a bit confusing unless you are into remote control cars (which I am), so okay enough of the complaining.

Ultimately, the targeting system has an auto detect to lock onto enemies, allowing you to switch targets with the right stick (similar to the likes of the VATS system in FALLOUT 3)…   Weirdly tho, if you are hiding behind cover and firing, the system automatically toggles back onto the main target which can get annoying.   Thinking like a game coder, it looks as if your point of view locks on for your as best it can based on who is the most optimal target at the time.   If you are trying to wear down an enemy who is also hiding or maneuvers out of the main targets range, you are stuck unloading ammo on the wrong target.   What the heck though, since all the enemies need to be dealt with right?   Well that's not the only problem. If there are power-up cubes in the area, your target might switch to that rather than the bad guys. THAT is a big anger issue for me during the gameplay since the game can't tell the difference between a bad guy and a gosh darnit defenseless floating cube?   I mean, it's really annoying. Did I say that was annoying? Okay sorry, I said I'd stop complaining… I'll try here in the next section of review. But just let it be known, if a cube is in front of you, it doesn't mean there isn't someone behind you that's gonna drop you due to either bad targeting, or even more anti-cooperative camera angle programming.

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The control scheme which almost reminds me of Gears of War lets you hide with the same button that makes you tumble if moving so get used to the single button mash when near a duck and cover spot, and avoid moving when doing it or you'll just tumble into enemy fire. Or worse you might hide when you meant to tumble and well that can get in the way since you might be facing the wrong way.    Or you'll take cover on the opposite side of an obstacle, thereby turning your back to the enemy and proving that cover systems like this only work when the player is always viewing true third person angles.   Whoops I'm still confronting the bugs aren't I?   Okay well…

When the action commences without the duck and hide mechanics getting in the way, which if you remember Gears, it's not all that important to actually STICK yourself to stuff to hide correctly anyway, their isn't much need to basic action is pretty much the norm for this type of game. Well done in by what I'm saying is the areas and missions are descent. The boss fighting is pretty darn cool in my opinion and if anything saves this game from total disaster.

Each character has a standard melee and ranged attack, and a few are actually pretty darn cool. Reminds me of how much one would try to figure out the final combo on Mortal Kombat games to get the "Total Whateverism" to come up.   Just a good hint to know about the Joe's that are useful, I'd like to point out that Ripcord for example has a turret-manifesting mode that will tear apart most enemies and the smaller boss types. If you ever decide to go with the storymode make sure to use Gung-Ho.   The friendly AI system does almost no damage to your teammate no matter which ones you use, but Gung-Ho will fire missiles that can topple over the baddies making them more removable.

Now in multiplayer mode, your teammate won't really take cover in useful ways but it still isn't a big deal since he can't die.   The deal tho would be to have another person on your side in co-op mode to maneuver strategically at your enemy and make yourself and your location overall less obvious.   That and make sure to stick close to your counterpart or the camera will just go wonky making you unable to play the level till you get respawned.

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The best part in G.I. Joe Rise of the Cobra is utilizing the accelerator suits. If you've seen the movie (or trailer at the time of this writing) you know there is something very CG style but cool about those moves they are making, and well, it absolutely rings true in the gameplay version as well.   Once you hit the accelerator suit mode activation it makes you both invincible and your moves are supersonic as lightening allowing you to do loads of destruction in very little time.    Be careful though since the same button that is used to open doors and activate computers is the double punch to activate this mode and you might wind up using it up when you didn't mean to.    However, when utilized correctly you most definitely will enjoy the features this suit provides. Including the very cool G.I. Joe music that is incorporated within the powerup scenario.

"We wanted to bring a little back of the classic arcade shooter-type game," says senior product manager Jason Enos. "It's a style of gameplay which isn't seen very often any more, and the generation which are playing videogames may not have even seen it. At least for us, being GI Joe fans, it's kind of a trip down memory lane, because it's the fusion of the classic shooter game with GI Joe... but brought to next-gen sensibilities." In other words, it doesn't punish like those 80s game did. "Contra - I love it. It's a fantastic game, but one bullet and you're dead," says Enos. "It doesn't work any more, especially with the new generation of game players. We do have health-bar elements, and the graphics are moved to 3D rather than side-scrolling."

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There are also multiple characters. There are twelve in the game, each with their own unique primary and secondary attacks, divided into three rough archetypes - Commandos, Heavies and Combat Soldiers, who are melee specialists, ranged specialists and hybrid classes respectively. They feed into teamwork-focused design, like a damage bonus for concentrating attacks and juggling enemies between you, and a boss character with a weak point at the rear that is best exposed by one player creating a distraction. Even the shared-screen camera option - as opposed to a split-screen one - is trying to enhance the co-operative feeling. "Dividing the screen makes you feel as if you're off doing your own thing, not working as a team," says Pavlich. "We wanted to reinforce the idea they were working through the game together rather than being locked in on their own."

You don't start with all twelve characters, however; you open them up via the battlepoint economy system. It's another system to reward serious play, offering points for mission success, and accepting them in exchange for character unlocks, new missions, video, and other assorted content. In a nod to the toys that have character information on the back of each box, there are also character bios left around the level to introduce new stuff and offer hints on how to deal with whatever big nasty thing Cobra - the game's terrorist organisation - is going to throw at you next.

There are also some secret rooms and limited multi-pathing in the game, with different character types allowing you to unlock different doors (ala LEGO Star Wars). Thankfully, there are areas in each map where you can swap out the character you're controlling - if only to bring in a new one you've just unlocked. EA is talking about a small strategic element of choosing the right characters for each level, and you'll have to hope so, because if that doesn't happen, everyone's just going to pick the ever-popular mute ninja Snake Eyes.

"One of the great things about being more than the movie, not only will you see vehicles in the game which are straight out of the movie, but we're able to bring in vehicles which are only in the toy line," says Pavlich. "In fact, we have some vehicles which are from the 'classic' toy line which aren't being revisited in the new toyline. We're really weaving all that together. The classic Cobra vehicle is the Hiss tank - it isn't going to be in the film at all. If we were the traditional movie game, it'd be such a missed opportunity not to have that, because fans would be, 'But that's the classic thing!' We really wanted to cover all the different bases." So no Hissy fits, yes? There's also the Accelerator Suit, which is a major device in the film, allowing you to perform superhuman acts of soldiering. As the developer tongue-in-cheekly puts it, it's basically the game's equivalent of a Mario power-up, but Mario doesn't get wrist-rockets. More's the pity.

Not having had a chance to play it, my main reservation from seeing GI Joe in action is the camera, which looks a bit confused when it gets up-close behind the players, although it appears to work fine when you're advancing on the enemies - even adding a sense of epic scale to the proceedings. One reason LEGO Star Wars' shared camera worked was because characters are primarily based on close-combat weapons, like lightsabers. When it's primarily guns instead, you suspect aiming off-camera will be somewhat tricky. So while clearly designed for two people sitting on a sofa and talking nonsense at one another, it does make you wonder whether they're considering any form of online-co-op.

And they are. Well, considering it, anyway. "A lot of movie games, the development cycle is 6-8 months," says Pavlich. "By the time this comes out, it'll be nearer 18 months of development. We wanted to make sure the same-screen co-op with a buddy was perfected. If it wasn't working well, everything else fails. We still have time in the schedule to evaluate what we could do with online, to see if it's something that we could get done for some of the platforms. It's something we're looking at."

I leave GI Joe behind with mixed impressions. I do admire what EA's trying to do, and working on this preview brought to mind Smash TV, LEGO Star Wars and even the divine idiot that is Earth Defence Force 2017. It makes me feel more excited than I actually am. The thing that links those games together is that I'd only ever truly rave about them after I've played them. In these things, it almost doesn't matter if the theory is strong or not; you can only even slightly tell when you play the thing. So until we get a chance to take GI Joe out of its plastic wrapper, crouch on the Eurogamer carpet and play with Duke, Scarlet and all the rest, I'm going to avoid anything like predictions. Good luck, EA, and soldier on.

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