G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra Video Game Review

It's fun. Is it earth shaking, ground breaking or anything like that?

No. But it's fun. I'm enjoying myself playing it.

The best part, it starts up right after the movie. I think this story will end up serving as a bridge between the movie and the sequal (or cartoon or whatever the next incarnation of RoC is). For instance, the Baroness is a prisoner and she gets rescued and the Joes find a Cobra symbol and have no clue what it is. So storywise, the Joes just know that M.A.R.S went rogue, they don't know that M.A.R.S. is becoming Cobra.

Another good part, the M.A.S.S. device makes it's RoC appearance.

Another good part, the PIT playset is there. It's the Joes mobile headquarters, so even though it wasn't in the movie, it makes it's appearance.

Also, only past the first level and already have seen (thru communications) appearances by: Stalker (looking like the Resolute version), Tunnel Rat, Dial Tone (female), Wild Bill, Snow Job and Data Frame (not looking like the old Mainframe but kind of similar to his DDP appearance when he had that big ol' ugly tech suit, but not that bad).

The bad: the voices, horrible. Really really bad. Hawk's is the only one close to his movie. The rest are bad.

The communications interplay between Dial Tone and Breaker gets a couple chuckles.

The gameplay. It's Contra. You have one direction to go and you basically take down everything in your path. The targeting is pretty simple, just look in the direction of the enemy and shoot.

There's nothing that "out there" about it. Just move thru the levels, mowing down enemies.

Got to drive the Snow Cat. Driving is a pain in the ass.

It's a fun game. Nothing complex, just fun.

Graphics are fine. They're not meant to be works of art, they're passable. Definately not ugly, but not stellar either.

As for the complaint that there's no online play. I don't care. Doesn't bother me in the slightest since I don't play console games online.

I'd give it a 7 out of 10. Worth the 50 bucks? No, probably not, but then I don't think any game is worth that much, but luckily I had a gift card.