An intense shooter that oozes style.

Rez brings core gaming fundamentals and builds an incredible feast of gorgeousness for the eyes and ears. It's straight-forward fun with constant action. WHAT'S GOOD? The look. Nothing looks like it. It has a vector based look to it but with so much more depth and style. The controls. Simple. You use 1 analog stick and 2 buttons. This makes it one of those games that's easy to play, hard to master. Adaptive Difficulty. The game will change how hard the boss are so that it's relative to how you did during the level for that level. This helps make the game accessible to more people which is nice, but doesn't rob great players of the experience as you'll need to be great at the game to unlock everything. Lots to unlock. What you do unlock are new game-play modes. You unlock them by achieving certain targets in each level. It is hard to get everything unlocked mind you. One of the nice game-play modes that comes as you simply pass levels is the Traveling mode. This will allow you to play through levels without taking damage, so you can just sit back and have some fun. The experience. This game had me giggling with happiness when I first started playing. It's basically a shoot-em up, but they remove sound effects so that your actions are integrated with the music, and it's placed in a great atmosphere. I don't think I can write out what makes this game addicting, intense, or so much fun. Even reading this now, it sounds rather dull, but that's what makes a great experience great: You can't be told about it, you have to have it yourself. WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER? If you despise trance music you will not be able to stand this game. Since the music is so integral to the game, if the soundtrack makes you wince you won't have fun, and this may alienate some audiences. Core length: There's only 5 levels. Yes you can unlock new modes for these levels, but there's only 5 of them. More levels would have been nice. Since levels 1-4 are relatively short this may results in some getting bored with the game quickly. If you become devoted to this game, eventually you should get all enemy pop-ups and patterns memorized which may make some gamers bored with it eventually.So although these are legitimate downsides to the game, I'll admit I'm somewhat blinded to them as I found the levels that fun. The developers obviously put a lot of creativity, effort, and quality in to the 5 levels that are present. FINAL WORD: Points for creativity, and providing an unmatched experience compensate for it's small set-backs which are only potential set-backs at best. There's lots to appreciate in this title, including a sense of true gaming purity. If you like fast paced, action titles (even a little bit), you owe it to yourself to play this game.Read full review