Spoken like someone who doesn't own the game. Which is understandable, considering your opinion of it.

There's no multiplayer mode in Vanquish. End-to-end, the game is not long, but I would be impressed if anyone here finished it the first time through in 4 hours if they played it on anything higher than Easy. That's 4 hours of real-world time spent playing the game, as the game only counts the hours you play between checkpoints--so if you die a half hour after you hit a check point, that half hour does not count for your in-game time.

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.


I love Vanquish.