Conker: Live & Reloaded

Conker: Live & Reloaded is one of my all-time favorite video games. Most people may not be satisfied with it because of Conker's Bad Fur Day, and yes I've played Bad Fur Day, but this game has everything Bad Fur Day had and more.

Let me first say that I like the tagnames a lot more, although some people hate that I find it useful. Sometimes I'll get pissed off when I die in the game, and considering there are tagnames in the game, sometimes I find out it's the same guy killing me over and over again, so I atleast know who to get revenge upon. Not to mention this game also uses xbox live so you can play with your friends from around the world. But I don't have xbox live so I can't tell you everything about that, only that there are plenty of things you can unlock during xbox live like Flame Fire or Purple Streak, (changes the color of the bullets) and lots of other crap like that.

Another thing that I really like about this game is the camera angle, thank God it's not another FPS. I'm completely satisfied with the 3rd person camera angles. Some people also don't like that about the game, like maybe it's hard to see with the character in the way or whatever. It never really bothered me, it's much better than a FPS. Don't get me wrong I like FPS but there have been just way too many FPS games coming out lately that it's hard for me to enjoy the same thing over and over again. What I really like about the 3rd person camera angle is that you could have the controls of a FPS while maintaining other abilities. For example, you've got the sneeker who can do frontflip no problem, but can you do frontflips in a FPS? No, does it really matter if you can do frontflips in a game at all? Not really, but I'd say it's useful for dodging attacks from other players. The Long Ranger and the Sky Jockey can also do sideflips when holding their Krotch 45 and DP500 weapons, but anyway. I'm just saying there's a lot more you can do in a 3rd person game than an FPS game. I really enjoy 3rd person games more too, I'm not saying they're better that's only my opinion. There are actually really good FPS games out there too like Perfect Dark, Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament 2000, etc. I've just been falling out of the mood lately, I guess.



The Graphics for this game are really smooth, everything looks so neat whether it be Old War or Future War. (I prefer Future War) The game actually does have a lot of glitches, yes, but some of it's funny. Like of you headshoot a Long Ranger or Sneeker on an R-Hog Their vehicle disappears, (that's supossed to happen, considering the player can no longer use it) but the character is still sitting up as if there was one. I'm not trying to make the glitches sound like a good thing here, I'm just saying, there are plenty of weird things that happen in the battlefield, but overall it doesn't bother me. (it never really interferes with the way I play the game)

The gameplay is a whole lot of fun, there are 6 classes you can play as: The Grunt, The Thermophile, The Sneeker, The Demolisher, The Long Ranger & The Sky Jockey. Personally I like the Grunt and the Long Ranger Best, but the other classes offer you a different way to play the game. Like a Sky Jockey of course flies the Steed (or Mule 52) and bombs enemies from above, the Sneeker uses the Sabre sword (whether it be a katana or a light saber) to decapitate enemies or throw knives at them. (they can also run faster than any class) Each class has their upside, basically. (although I think The Sky Jockey and the Sneeker should have more health 'cause they die fast)

Each class also has their own set of special abilities like infravision, self-heal, beserk, and other stuff. The Sneeker seems to have the most differing abilities from all the other classes, like the cloak, which allows you to be invisible for some time. (even though most of the time it can be pretty useless unless used to hide from a Sky Jockey or Long Ranger) They also have this one ability in which they feign death, which never works. I've tried it but somehow they always know I'm not really dead, not sure how, but anyway. Then they also have this disguise which to my suprise, works a lot better than to feign death. The Demolisher can go Beserk, which causes them to use this kind of smashing move. (which for some reason blows players up) There are a lot more abilities I haven't mentioned, but I think you get the idea.


I know I'm leaving out the "Bad Fur Day" part of the game, but basically, the graphics are updated with very few changes made to the game. (like the bat instead of the frying pan, which doesn't bother me because I couldn't care less for what kind of weapon I have) I mostly play the multiplayer more than this anyways, so yeah.

Overall, I love the amount of options you're given in this game better than BFD. I also like that you can manage your team mates in naming everyone whatever you want. (and you can edit the game so you could play around with stuff like how many lives you have, how long the game is, etc.) Also, you can change the classes for each game around so you could play with Sky Jockeys or Grunts only in the game. (whatever class you want it to be) This game never really gets old to me, I've been playing it for about a year and a half now. (I've also managed to get really good at sniping with the Long Ranger, you can see my video at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dci35kWTubE

I recommend this game to anyone who has an xbox. I give it a 10/10.