While I, like most of the 360 universe, have been playing my fair share Halo 3, I did get a chance to take a test drive of Two Worlds.

Let me just say that was a very bad idea! The game itself has a confusing premise, albeit comparable to Oblivion (and a host of other middle aged themed games). You set yourself up as a customized character that journeys through the countryside trying to find your sister who mysteriously vanished while you were checking an empty house for a nights rest. Then you fast forward several months and start your journey. “What about the sister?”, you ask. I know, cause that’s what I said too. Unfortunately, I never made it far enough in the game to actually find out what was going on.

Let’s start with the customization. No matter what changes you made to the facial features, it never really looked like it did anything. Really, you could only see very vague changes and it wasn’t worth the hassle.

Now the gameplay. It was bad. Very bad. The worst part about it was the dizzying camera effect along with the very poor frame rate. The landscape and scenes looked decent, but when it’s going at 20 fps, it can be vomit inducing. The inherent “chipping” of the background because of the framerate actually rendered this game unplayable to me. I have a very strong will (don’t get seasick, carsick, yadda yadda) but this game actually gave me a headache to try and play. Since the game is viewed via 3rd person, it really gave a poor visualization of the surroundings. It’s hard to imagine that a game can be approved and released when there is such huge flaws in it. Another gripe was the language selection. It was like a combination of middle aged jargon mixed with made up sentence structure. Something along the lines like, ‘I t’with you fell on. We must go now’. WTF?! Yeah, it was that bad!

A few months of polish could have really helped, and maybe some testing on it would have pointed out the very evident character and background problems. But, all in all, I found this to be a huge disappointment and not worth taking away from my Halo time. Unless you’re some kind of masochist, stay very far away from this game. My vote is .5 out of 5. The .5 is because the verbatim was so absurd that I found it kinda humorous!