Pacific Rim is a downloadable Xbox Live Arcade ten dollar game, that also happens to be movie licensed. If anything, this was a success in my opinion. The gameplay is reminiscent of Godzilla Unleashed, Godzilla Save the Earth, and other Kaiju fighting games. I don't know why people were expecting a high quality movie licensed title.
Gamespot video game review said that, Pacific Rim wisely avoids any attempt to follow the film's storyline to the letter, but the repetition of playing as the same three Jaegers (or robots) and two Kaiju (or monsters) throughout its mere 12 stages sours the experience. Without explanation, it soon pits you against other Jaegers instead of the monsters threatening human existence as we know it, and to make matters worse, each of the five combatants in the core release cling to patterns so predictable that it's not too much of a challenge to score a gold ranking after but one failed attempt. That's less true of the harder Survival mode, but even mastering its additional challenges amounts to little more than making smarter blocks and throwing well-timed punches.
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