Gun Valkyrie Xbox

A Dashing Fun Game

Strengths: Creative control scheme, nice graphics, lots of stuff to shoot

Weakness: Steep learning curve, very difficult

Gun Valkyrie is a stylistic third-person shooter from Sega. This game is a beautiful and hectic game that has you zooming around levels and frantically shooting every alien bug in sight. The controls in this game take a while to get used to because, in order to play the game well, you must master the dash techniques that are performed by clicking the analog sticks. The dash techniques allow you...

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Gunvalkyrie

Strengths: Innovative controls

Weakness: Weak game design

Sega's Gunvalkyrie is one of those games that will be either loved or hated. It has a unique control system that takes some time to get used to and since it does not have a congif option, you'll have to adjust to the default setup. Once you do, you'll wonder how the game can be played any other way. But it's worth learning the controls, the payoff is that it makes the game more playable. It's...

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Difficult, but deep shooter

Strengths: Innovative boost system

Weakness: Hard as a rock, tough learning curve for controls, repetitive and uninspired level design, waste of Smilebit's potential

I really did want to like this game. I love most everything Sega has put out, especially Smilebit, but GunValkyrie is just too much. The difficulty gets way too high too early. This is compounded by the complex control scheme, which takes a good while to get to a point where you feel like you can actually control what's going on on-screen. The story is decently fleshed out, but the levels have...

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Gun Valkyrie Xbox

Strengths: Graphics, style, characters, sound, and gameplay.

Weakness: You cannot change the controls.

Gun Valkyrie is a 3rd person shooter for XBOX. I really wanted to give this game a higher score, but I couldn't no matter how many positives it has. The game has great graphics, awesome music, beautiful character designs, and even unique gameplay. The only problem is that you can't change the controls. Specifically the inverted controls to uninverted. Due to this it is almost impossible to play...

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Gun Valkyrie Xbox

Strengths: It's cool.

Weakness: It's hard.

Basically, you've got here a wacky third-person shooting game, heavy on the action and cool factor, not so much on the game design. There are tons of things to shoot.... but they're all bland and repetitive. There are numerous levels... but they're all pretty similar. There are a lot of weapons... but most of 'em are trash. Coupled with a wonky camera system and a short main quest and you have a...

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Gun Valkyrie Xbox

Strengths: 10 big levels, customizable weaponry, upgradeable armor, and intense special attacks

Weakness: steep learning curve

Gun Valkyrie is a 3rd person shooter in which you will be using both of the Xbox analog sticks to control your character with some new ideas added to the game to control your character that are new to 3rd person shooters. You can press in the left analog stick to do a boost dash and you can tilt the analog stick in a certain direction and press it in to dash in that direction for example if you...

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Gun Valkyrie Xbox

Strengths: At times, a blast to play.

Weakness: Learning curve.

Gun Valkyrie loses points because of its difficulty, not due to steepness, but rather it is an unenjoyable and painful learning curve. Controlling the main character is frustrating since it does not feel natural the way the player moves and looks around. Unlike a game, such as Metroid, where you have to forget the standard fps controls, but after a while the gameplay makes sense and shouldn't...

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Gun Valkyrie Xbox

Strengths: Good challenge, can be a lot of fun if you master it.

Weakness: Controls aren't great, and it's not easy (or practical) to master.

Gunvalkyrie is an action game, pure and simple. I love action games, and challenging ones at that... but this one gets much of its challenge from its control, which is difficult and unconfigurable. You get bonuses for aerial boost combos, which sounds pretty cool... but you boost by pressing the left stick in while moving it in a direction. That's trouble. In addition, this game uses the left...

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Gun Valkyrie Xbox

Strengths: Good graphics sound,

Weakness: Poor camera control, lack of a lock on feature, repetitve gameplay, no melee weapon

Overall GunValkyrie looks and sounds very good but this game is good proof that graphics can’t carry a game by itself. This game suffers from control issues that drag it down to near unplayable. First the camera splits controls between the 2 thumb sticks, not only does the left stick control your character but also the way the camera pans around them leaving the right thumb stick to control...

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Gun Valkyrie Xbox

Strengths: Good graphics and gameplay

Weakness: Boring after a little while

This game was REALLY fun for a little while. But then it got SO unbelievably repetative. You just do the SAME thing over and over again. However the graphics and gameplay are pretty good, so it does stay kind of fun for a little while... Hope this helps.