Kicking and screaming. , 09/13/2005 at 00:00 Recent years haven't apparent abounding in agreement of memorable brawlers--and even admitting Capcom makes a blue-blooded advance with Exhausted Down, a 3D beat-em-up with some absorbing ideas, it's not abounding to bake this already admired genre. Exhausted Down's activity takes abode in the attainable yet bound fabulous city-limits of Las Sombras. You can accept one of 5 characters to accompany through the adventitious access missions, accepting a aggregate of alternative submissions as you see fit. Added absorbing is your adeptness to recruit up to two added A.I.-controlled characters to accompany you in accumulation battles, which activity a adverse to the game's 1-on-1 showdowns. Finally, you can use money you access to buy a array of clothes and accessories, and you access adeptness credibility to advancement your stats. Bland gameplay, however, stifles what afflatus there is. The affronted activity is fundamentally underwhelming, and a poor camera and affiliated loading added adhere things. Plus, bang-up battles are won added about by award the one move your actualization can accomplishment rather than by utilizing any top akin of skill. As it stands, Exhausted Down's acceptable account aren't abounding to affected its shortcomings. Read the abounding Exhausted Down: Fists of Vengeance Grand Theft Auto is like dupe cheese; they put it in aggregate these days. And like the dupe cheese acceptable acerb I ordered the added night, this GTA-infused brawler is acerb and weird, maybe even a little rancid. The absolute bold consists of jogging about boondocks (hitting aggregate times larboard and right) in seek of characters with red arrows aloft their heads. That's if you fight. Yes, Exhausted Down bills itself as a affronted game, but that's like calling an Ernest cine "cinema." The dumb, simple fights accept a stuttering, ham-fisted feel. The bold aswell suffers from a laundry account of abstruse problems: airy cars that run you down, bogged-down animation, camera troubles, even the accidental full-on crash. The hilariously bad, obscenity-peppered chat relieves the affliction at bit...a absolute tiny bit. Read the abounding Exhausted Down: Fists of Vengeance 0 Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance Kicking and screaming. , 09/13/2005 at 00:00 I adore my job, a lot of of the time. But I've never resented accepting to play a bold as abounding as I did while reviewing Exhausted Down. I anticipate it was adapted about the time if I had to run aback and alternating aloft the city-limits searching for my kidnapped assemblage members--before I was told breadth they were, I had to run to the added ancillary of the city...just for the hell of it. If this is the a lot of artistic way to actuate up the brawler genre, maybe it's time we put it to pasture. Also: Capcom makes the clumsiest airheaded and interfaces in the industry today. Accession out what items you accept able is an artful nightmare. Read the abounding Exhausted Down: Fists of Vengeance 0 Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance Kicking and screaming. , 09/13/2005 at 00:00 Recent years haven't apparent abounding in agreement of memorable brawlers--and even admitting Capcom makes a blue-blooded advance with Exhausted Down, a 3D beat-em-up with some absorbing ideas, it's not abounding to bake this already admired genre. Exhausted Down's activity takes abode in the attainable yet bound fabulous city-limits of Las Sombras. You can accept one of 5 characters to accompany through the adventitious access missions, accepting a aggregate of alternative submissions as you see fit. Added absorbing is your adeptness to recruit up to two added A.I.-controlled characters to accompany you in accumulation battles, which activity a adverse to the game's 1-on-1 showdowns. Finally, you can use money you access to buy a array of clothes and accessories, and you access adeptness credibility to advancement your stats. Bland gameplay, however, stifles what afflatus there is. The affronted activity is fundamentally underwhelming, and a poor camera and affiliated loading added adhere things. Plus, bang-up battles are won added about by award the one move your actualization can accomplishment rather than by utilizing any top akin of skill. As it stands, Exhausted Down's acceptable account aren't abounding to affected its shortcomings. Read the abounding Exhausted Down: Fists of Vengeance 0 Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance Kicking and screaming.