ReCore Standard Edition - Xbox One

Really fun game at 40 bucks and comes with bonus controller skin equals a really great value. If you love the Metroid prime for the Nintendo GameCube you would definitely love this.

This game is so underrated! I wish more people would buy this game and give it a try. Honestly, I love it.

This game is an amazing exclusive on Xbox One. I loved every second of it.

You don't see many games starting off less that $50, but this one does and it is a beautiful game. While the first 20min of ReCore are enamoring, the first boss fight will make you want to throw your controller. If that one doesn't I guarantee the second one will. There is a game dynamic called "core extracting" where when you have a baddy down to a certain health you can grapple their core from their body for an "instant kill." The problem is you activate this with the R3 (press in on right stick) and then use the stick to achieve just the right amount of tension to extract. Too little and they snap your cable, too much and you snap your cable. The problem is that with normal enemies this isn't too hard a sweet spot to find, normally. With the big bads it is so frustrating you will want to punch a kitten. Really wish they had gone with a button smash, or button sequence match minigame to do this. Complaint #2 is the loading times. If you like having time to vacuum the living room, do dishes, slop the hog, do your homework, or run a quick errand to the local pharmacy while your game is loading between your character's home, and the open world. This is the game for you. I exaggerate a little, but man there is a lot of loading. Once the loading is done you are in an beautiful mostly open world. The third thing that will have you screaming for mercy is when you step into a part of the world you are not leveled up enough for. There isn't a warning sign or something preventing you from going there. You will just get your butt handed to you repeatedly until you shut the game off and use the disc for a skeet shoot, or you go somewhere else for a while and then you find the long unmarked road around and wonder why it was so hard in the first place. I know this looks like a bad review but I really do like this game. Once you understand the flaws/frustrations you begin to work with them. Story is good, the player is made to care about the main character and pals, and again the game is beautiful. I can forgive a lot for a $20 cheaper game.

This game isn't like anything I have played on my Xbox. It offers a semi-open world experience with plenty of customization, platforming, and frantic fighting sequences. Even when not platforming in the many dungeons, I still find plenty of entertainment and challenge while fighting enemy bots alongside my own team of corebots. It's also very family friendly and a game I wouldn't hesitate playing around the kids. I have only found two cons in my experience so far and they are not a big deal in my opinion. First, the load times can take a while but I don't think a load screen has ever lasted longer than a minute. Second, the graphics sometimes look like an Xbox 360 game and other times look great.

For some of us folks that have been playing video games for some while now (Nintendo was my first console btw) can appreciate when a game comes out and tries something different, and in this case something old school. This game is fantastic in that regard. It plays like well done platformer, which i haven't played since Jack and Daxter. I didn't think this game would have that as its primary play style at first. Don't get me wrong, the combat is also very enjoyable, swapping between different colored ammo to match the enemy your fighting, while commanding your A.I. companion what to do is quite satisfying. I started really liking this game after discovering some of its secret dungeons, and how fun/challenging it was completing them and unlocking rare parts for your partner. It's sad how people are so focused on graphics now and days that it will get judged just by that immediately. Graphics help, but don't make the game. It's not perfect by any means (Loading times are a little much, some Frame drops in intense battles) but for me it is, especially now when games are so focused on Hollywood movie story telling, saturated with FPSs, and disappointing hype ( *cough* No Mans Sky, Destiny *cough* to name a few) I just want a game that is fun to play, and Recore is just that. I don't care if the story isn't thought provoking or life changing, it's not what I look for in a video game. Don't let mainstream reviews deter you from trying it, you might actually like it if you try it. I own the collectors edition of Recore, and have a review of it as well.

Overall, the game is a fun game. The mechanics remind me of Ratchet and Clank. The platforming aspect of the game is dead-on and is an enjoy. Even the shooting, while it comes off as simplistic, is enjoyable and can even pose a challenge. Cons: The game has very long load times. They have seem to have beomce a little shorter, but overall these are some of the worst on the Xbox One. This can sometimes take away from the enjoyment of the game. My only other complaint is that towards the end of the game, you will need to grind quite a bit to be able to progress. This doesn't really pose too much of an issue in the beginning of the game, but will become more of an annoyance the further you progress. To exasperate the issue, each time you need to "hop" between locations, you are greeted with a loading screen. As I previously mentioned, it is the loading screens which take away from the experience, and make back tracking that much more of an annoyance. Overall: gameplay is an 8-9.5. However, because of the the long load times, I cannot give this more than a 7 out of 10. I definitely do recommend this to anyone who is a fan of games like Ratchet and Clank, but this recommendation comes with a big *. I recommend this game for those who are not turned off to long load times which adds hours on to the game.

Let me start off with the price. The price of this game was reduced well before the launch, from $60 to $40. Next I'd like to say this is an excellent game all on it's own--the storyline is good, the mechanics are really easy to get used to, and the challenges are challenging. You do get frustrated at some of the dungeons though, because things are so hidden and time is against you. The gameplay mechanics are easy to get used to but it also doesn't get any more difficult once you've mastered the 'core extraction'. It took me about 20 tries on first major boss of the game to really get the extraction technique down. After that, it becomes easy breezy extractions. What I don't like is that there will be a DLC for this game (although it's unannounced). And you know this because one of the corebots are unavailable in this stand alone game (probably the reason to reduce the price pre-launch). The most annoying part of this game is HOW MANY TIMES the loading screen comes up.