Ra.One, the game now available in India

At a suburban five star hotel in Mumbai yesterday, Ra.One the game, was launched amidst much fanfare. The PS2 and PS3 game that’s being touted as one of the first Indian PlayStation 3 games loosely based on Shahrukh Khan’s movie, Ra.One is now available at stores all over India. The game is kind of a prequel to the movie although how anyone understands anything from that game is beyond me. I tried the game out at a kiosk at the event and in all my years as a journalist have never played a more disjointed and ugly game. The game’s a brawler by nature in the same vein of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance but lacks everything that makes games fun. Horrible visuals – check. Clunky animations – check. Archaic gameplay that makes absolutely no sense – check. Terrible voice acting – check.Me and a few other journalists tried the game out but none of us could really figure out what we had to do. The game claims to have both single as well as a multiplayer modes but they both feel the same. You spam two keys for just two attacks and that’s about it. Animations are stiff, combat is beyond horrifying and every character felt he/she was dipped in starch. In every mission, the player must face waves of enemies and well, that’s about it. Hit detection was so terrible that even after whaling on an enemy for like ten minutes, his health bar refused to budge. And once you get caught in an enemies’ attack, you can’t dodge or counter-attack. He’ll pummel you till you die and happily mutter “Threat not detected” over your dead corpse.Click here for full story