Old Game Review: L.A.I.R. on PS3

Dragons are fucking cool. Wait let me rephrase that. Dragons are supposed to be fucking cool. I just thought that a game about dragons would feature more bad ass dragons. I guess I was just put off by the graphic quality of this game. This is the first time a PS3 exclusive game failed to wow me. In their defense they had a lot going on in this game. Unfortunately it wasn't very interesting stuff.

Factor 5 the developer has a pedigree for making great flying games for the Star Wars franchise. They pushed the limits of the Game Cube to create some of the best looking games of that generation on the weakest hardware. I don't know how they managed to make the worst looking game on the best hardware but they did.

I gave this a shot after finding that they dropped the all six axis control to allow for analog controls with a patch update. I found that the old unfavorable reviews still held up despite the control issues being fixed.

What factor 5 should have done was look at a very similar dragon game from the ps2. Drakengard was a crazy ass game that allowed you to upgrade your dragon, which was key for me to play levels multiple times. I dont know why all you get with ps3 games is behind the scenes content for doing well but it sucks.

Here is a taste of Drakengard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97GDQOBLk6E
(Warning: This video is fucking crazy and may give you nightmares.)

The point of the video is this. If a game can have a plot in which creepy ass giant babies are the enemies in a dragon game, it must have been good for me to get all 4 of the multiple endings. (This is the part where you go back and watch the video to see what the hell Im talking about)
Factor 5 go back and give me more creepy infants and less boring objectives.

2 Creepy Babies out of 5