Rio Reviews

  • WorhammerWorhammer357,044
    16 Apr 2012 16 Apr 2012
    11 0 2
    Another edition of Worhammer's Shameless Easy-Mode Super Happy Gamerscore Funtime.

    Looking for easy gamerscore? You've come to the right place. Looking for fun along the way? This is probably one of the better titles out there.

    This game is falls in the "Movie tie-ins for quick cash" category that developers seem to love so much. Sucker a few kids into buying a game based on their favorite movie and make easy money. Also, a few of those score whores will probably buy it as well.

    Anyway, on to the review. This is your typical party game. Lots of little minigames to occupy your time with. Some sort of storyline that I couldn't care less about. The controls were fine, the sound was mediocre but not annoying (for the most part), and the graphics were actually pretty decent.

    As with many of these types of games, the achievements are ridiculously easy. As well they should be. No kid wants to spend 500+ hours boosting weapon kills for 100 gamersore....wait....

    Expect to spend 10 - 15 hours on the full 1K. You can cut that down to 7 - 10 hours if you skip the last three. Four controllers are pretty much mandatory for one achievement,
    RioParty PerfectionThe Party Perfection achievement in Rio worth 101 pointsComplete all games to gold standard in Party Mode.
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    Some grinding necessary for the last few achievements. One you can leave two controllers on overnight (Marathon) and the other will require you to run through some minigames (either for fun, or just to get it done....) - I only hit 100 after doing 90% of the other achievements, so this left me with close to 80 games to play after having everything else, which added another hour to playtime.

    My one frustration was that you can't skip the opening scenes and there's WAY too much loading time. Even with the game installed on my hard drive, I'd say 30% of the time I spent actually playing was either staring at a loading screen or watching some stupid cut-scene the game wouldn't let me skip.

    All in all, this wasn't a bad place to drop 10 hours. In my quest for easy gamerscore, I have certainly done worse.
    3.0
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    Uber Old Acctbh peeps i would swerve this game its crap, slow & DAM right BORING!
    Posted by Uber Old Acc on 19 May 13 at 03:04
    Eric FiltroI didn't find it slow. All cutscenes could be skipped. I played the digital version, though.
    Posted by Eric Filtro on 24 Aug 15 at 10:41