X-Play's Afro Samurai Review Stereotypical

I love 3rd-person combat games because they usually benefit from a good mix of action and story, but if there's any bane that almost all of them suffer it's redundant gameplay and bad camera angles. X-Play took the time to review Namco Bandai's Afro Samurai this week and of course found this to be a note-worthy complaint that, coupled with some strange stylization choices, earned it a 3 out of 5. With it's super-stylization, hip canon, and entertaining ultra-violence, do you think Afro Samurai worth your time?

Check out X-Play's review with tons of gameplay footage to judge for yourself:

I myself am a huge fan of the Afro Samurai cartoon and the way it has come full circle at the end of Afro Samurai: Retribution was a masterful conclusion to the story. The sword-fighting is exciting and the personalities of the characters are top-notch so the game should have been a shoe-in for awesome. Too bad it suffers from problems that I have to believe were kind of obvious; they're the same ones previous games in the genre have had so you would expect Namco Bandai to have learned from them. Especially considering how many brawlers and fighting games they've made.

Regardless, I'll be playing this the first chance I get and I have a feeling I will enjoy it. Have you played it? Let us know what you think.

-Unfather