When Sony first announced that it was combining three iconic franchises – Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, and Sly Cooper – into a single game, fans got understandably excited. Seeing beloved video game heroes interact with one another in a mash-up is inherently entertaining, and extending characters beyond their traditional settings offers boundless creative options for the storytellers. But instead of capitalizing on these classic characters in a story-based mega-adventure, Heroes gives players a collection of repetitive, motion-based gaming events stitched together with the weakest of plots.
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Console Domination writes: Combining three separate and very popular franchises into one game should work right? Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank and Sly Cooper are three of the best action adventure/platforming series that Sony has to offer. Good gameplay and good story make these the hits that they are and the prospect of a mash up should be cause for celebration. Unfortunately the end result is a a party game played with motion controls, rather than some kind of massive adventure. Something of a disappointment really. On its own merits it's a passable game. The minigames are fairly entertaining, if somewhat repetitive but as a party game it's sorely lacking in the party atmosphere.
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