Games that allow me to do a wide variety of things in real-time really appeal to me. This isn't limited to traditional action games like this, Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden, Infamous or Assassin's Creed, but also to 'extreme sports' games like the old Tony Hawk games or Skate. The kinds of games where I can say 'what if I did it like this', and I could actually do it like 'that'. Vanquish is more focused than the open-world, climb everywhere games like AC or Infamous, but it has a similar degree of freestyle action gameplay with the tools they give you.

It didn't really click with me until I played through the demo a few times. The first time through, I was pretty disappointed. Just did the basic run, cover, shoot/Gears of War thing. It was decent, but nothing that seemed like it should demand my attention. I tried it again a few days later, and after playing around with the boost and the slow-time mode and the variable melee attacks, I dug what I was getting out of it.

The one thing I would really love to have in the game is a replay mode where you can save and share replays through the system. Especially if it was as extensive as Halo's film system, but even just a basic 'gameplay POV' replay system would have been great.

To reiterate my thoughts from another thread (where someone was deciding what game to buy):
Quote Originally Posted by JKTrix View Post
Get Vanquish if you like somewhat open-ended score-attack type arcade games. The controls are pretty perfect and allow for a vast approach to blowing crap up, and it looks stylish while you do it. If that kind of gameplay doesn't interest you--the desire to do things faster, more efficiently, more stylishly than you (or someone else) did it before--then don't bother trying to justify the full price of it. Maybe rent it.

It's a similar kind of argument for shooting games like Deathsmiles and Gradius and the like--it's all about doing better than you did before. Some people can't justify spending a lot of money on things like that. But then there are some people who absolutely love those kinds of games.