Embark on a journey through the cityworld of Cocoon and the outerworld of Pulse. Along the path to discovering your destiny, you will encounter diverse allies who will fight beside you. You will have to summon all of your expertise with weapons and magic, as well as all your courage, to determine your fate in the latest action-packed installment in the renowned Final Fantasy video game series.Face your destiny as you travel through the worlds of Cocoon and Pulse in Final Fantasy XIII. Discover diverse allies who will join you in your fight, and execute punishing attacks with powerful weapons and magic. Summon the enigmatic Eidolons with the evolved Active Time Battle system. With seamless transitions between real-time gameplay and in-game cinematics, Final Fantasy XIII draws you into the mystery and the magic of the series like never before.
This reviewer is a member of the Best Buy Tech Insider Network Program. This invitation-only program provides BestBuy.com reviewers with manufacturer-supplied products for the purpose of writing honest, unbiased and usage-based reviews. Outside of receiving products to test and review, Best Buy Tech Insider Network Reviewers are not compensated in any other way.
The Good: The graphics in this game are amazing and the cut scenes are frequent, long, and entertaining. Also, some of the game play changes are neat like the paradigm shifts and weapons/accessories upgrades.
The Not so Good: For those of us who have played nearly all of the FF titles this game is much more linear than past games. There is not the ability to explore at your leisure. You just plod along killing monsters, then cut scene, then killing more monsters, then another cut scene, and on and on. Also, the cut scenes while cool can get very corny at times.
That being said this game is still good but for me, someone who has been looking forward to this game for a few years now, it falls a little short.
I should disclose that I am playing chapter 10 right now (about 25-30 hours in) and have not finished the game so maybe it will open up more.