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Review Round-Up: Chromehounds

By Brian Crecente, 1:00 PM on Tue Jul 11 2006, 206 views

Oh Chromehounds, you had such potential. I really wanted to love this Xbox 360 mech knock-off, but it the developers just couldn't pull the package together. The graphics for the "hounds" were amazing, but just about everything around them looked horrid. The controls, game length, online play all suffered from the same disparate development. I gave the game a C-, it appears I was nice.

Eurogamer
There are some plus points, certainly - control of the COMBAS towers, in particular, has a tangible importance that resonates throughout with greater effect than any of the other UT-Domination-inspired game ideas I've encountered recently. But like the mech editor, it's a well implemented idea in a fairly shonky game - and not one that I can imagine Xbox 360 players sticking with for more than a handful of hours tops, no matter how starved they are for new releases at the moment.
Grade: 4/10

GameBrink
So overall the gameplay is pretty forgettable and is only saved by the interesting ideas presented online.
Score: 56/100

Rocky Mountain News
Unfortunately the game never manages to completely pull together all of the elements of the game enough to reach the title's full potential.
Portions of the game are amazing to behold while other parts fall completely flat and sometimes both occur at the same time.
Grade: C-

UndergroundOnline
It isn't terribly exciting, and the true joy only comes out from finally completing the single player tutorials to have enough equipment to build up a decent Hound. There is a lot riding on the multiplayer component, and it will be interesting to see a month from now how many people are still in squads engaging in the online war. That said, Chromehounds is a decent game, though it lacks that certain something special that made the Mech Warrior and Mech Assault games great.
Grade: B-

Brian Crecente

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