When I beat the game the first time, I was thoroughly dissappointed. I was expecting a great "Myth" story- but all I got was a pathetic attempt to make some mysterious story following a couple heroes. I think CoD is better, even though they didn't have the top-notch map-makers spending all day and night working on a bungie-certified project. Certainly there were great things about it, and it is a beautiful scenario. However, if it was more related to the actual Myth world it would have been far more interesting. Also, why did they not use the pregame map? I had NO IDEA where I was the entire game. In M1 and M2, I found lots of fun peicing the story together with dates, locations, and people. All characters reffered to in this game, for the most part, have nothing to do with Myth. I want to hear more about Alric and his empire. I want to hear more about the Fallen Lords, or at least some of their successors. This does not necessarily have to be the primary plot, but PLEASE, back up this new storyline with peices of the old. Supposedly this took place past the untamed lands... at least make a map of it! The narrators, unfortunately, sucked. I'm sorry but the narrator in M1 and M2 had a great english accent which made the game more interesting and more profound. The whiny voice emitting from my speakers when I loaded the first level startled me: I even checked to make sure that they were working. In fact the narrator was so annoying that I had to turn off my speakers during the intro to each level. The one good voice, however, was Kyrilla.
The maps are great, (both in playability and size) but the storyline was weak, not intertwined with Myth storyline well enough, and the lack of a continental map made it even less interesting. Sometimes the gameplay was slow... incredibly slow in fact. Either that or it was EXTREMELY repetitive, annoyingly so.
I'll give it a 3 out of 5.
