As miserable as this game was at times, I still was having a ton of fun hanging out with every one while streaming! If you want to hang out in the future, come follow my twitch! www.twitch.tv/jarek4gamingdragon
I can forgive a lot in a game that is trying to be ambitious. I played this game back in the day and i absolutely loved it. Its hard as balls but it was like a badge of honor to have beaten it as a kid. It tried to do so many things that were so different from everything else on the market. Its definitely earned its place in my brain's list of unforgettable games.
I wholely agree, and I was an adult when it came out, and i played it, lol. I always randomly think of this game, and think someone should give something like it another shot. Brutal as it was, the overall story is a trip; and the hand-to-hand was amazing imo.
I finished and enjoyed this game back in the day, but it definitely is a you had to be there kind of a thing. It felt really impressive and immersive at the time and I remember powering through the frustrating parts on the power of the immersion and the plot. I have fond memories of it, but on the other hand, I'm not really surprised it hasn't aged well.
I remember playing through this game with no walk through and am only now realizing this game was an absolute nightmare for most people even on just normal playthroughs
It was definitely a game made for people who are actually good at video games, not for the casual audience. Once you figure it out and git gud though, it's actually pretty easy. Jarek didn't even make it to the white room (you know the one) before he ragequit and made this video. That's pretty sad.
@@Gatorade69that was Urban Chaos Riot Response. There was another Urban Chaos on PS1 that was a 3rd person action game where you play as a cop and a vagrant trying to regain control of a crime ridden city. That one was made by Eidos. Vastly different games.
Breakdown is my favorite game of all time, but most of what you say here is valid. The guy who made it created Tekken and the team didn't have experience with FPS games only lightgun, so their ambitions outmatched what they where capable of. Breakdown's main problem was that it was decades ahead of it's time so there was no reference point for a lot of what it wanted to do, if it was made a generation later when ADS was normalized most of the shooting problems would not have existed. If you want to love Breakdown, you kind of have to treat it like you've never played a video game before and go on its terms, if you are willing to do this you can find ways to mitigate its frustrations. Crouching makes lock on shooting accurate, pistol works at range, enemies have very short tether points, so you can have one on ones in big fights(that's how i beat the room you got stuck on), shockwave does crowd control etc. In any event, I appreciate you giving it a fair shake, I'd recommend at least watching the cutscenes on UA-cam the story is incredible.
Breakdown is frustrating but it has a really cool story that everyone should experience. It's really deserving of a remake, stop remaking perfect games like Resident Evil and remake Breakdown!
I recommend checking out Condemned: Criminal Origins next. It did something similar to Breakdown, but was much more polished and functional. And pretty scary too.
I remember this game. It was something! The graphics were 10/10 back in the day. Me and my friend group actually made a point to beat this game. It was the ultimate achievement to beat the game. The end boss was ridiculous, my one friend couldn't defeat the boss. I had to do it for him, because he didn't think it was possible. When it was cutting edge is was pretty good. Breakdown is a game I will never forget!
I loved this game growing up. Beat it a few times with me guides. Only had one friend who was also playing it and we'd trade info so we could progress. I recognize how frustrating this game is and I don't think I could recommend it to anyone with hesitation but I can confidently say I'll always remember this game
This game reminds me a LOT of Second Sight in its presentation and atmosphere, also an original XBOX game and a FAR superior game on a technical level. I highly recommend playing it for the channel, it's got super cool telekinetic powers and a really interesting psy-op storyline. It's also playable on Steam for only $2.50 right now! It's also made by Free Radical while they were still a company lol
i loved this janky mess of a game when i was a kid. years later when i saw how good mirrors edge looked i was way too excited. memba those days? when EA was actually creating good games? i memba. pepperidge farm remembas too.
However, there was an opponent name Escape from Butcher Bay arrive to xbox in the same year, and i believe jarek must know what happened to this sodaholic man next.
The combat sure was jank but MAN did it have atmosphere and the plot really drew you in with it's psychology stuff. Back in the day there was nothing like it on consoles so it was something that was considered tolerable.
I enjoyed and did beat the game when I saw it on Xbox backwards compatible. The problems this game has are valid though, I had monents I got infuriated but pushed on to finish the game. It's one of my favorite games now despite the flaws and it's too bad Namco didn't try to make a more polished sequel. There are other games like this that handle the gameplay much better so close enough!
@@_X1M_ my older brother and I loved this game it was rough probably took a month of playing a few hours every other day but by the time we played on the hardest difficulty we knew the game fairly well. Also all the main bosses have patterns by far the hardest part was near the end when you have to fight nexus that part alone took a week easily. Really felt like a badge of honor. Def need to revisit this game soon.
@@Edwinsoda Ima give the game another try, I got towards the end of the game where you fight nexus, but never beat him, I just gave up, but ima whoop his ass this time.
Hey Jarek, I don't know if you're looking for this sort of feedback in your comment section, but I wanted to mention that I'm really enjoying the new "facecam" method. Having you in the corner in a kind of show presenter way has been really nice the last few videos and I hope it's something you continue.
Played this game and beat it, when I got to the part where you gave up I took about a 2 month break. Picked it up again and decided to finish it, and oh boy the final boss is amazing to fight in this... but the fight after... well I took a 1 or 2 year break since I had a sliver of health at my previous save just before the fight. I ended up starting a new game and got to the same point with much more health and finally finished it.
Usually when game creators don't like what they do with their first game they slap it as a "sequal" canonically and make a prequal that flushes the crappy things about the first game then make a remaster of the original one so that they can flesh out any problems from the prequal. Then you make tri sequal of successful games.
Ngl, i want a remake of this game and maybe a sequel since i played this a few years ago and it was awesome. Yes, guns are bad and the difficulty is utter BS. But the fact that this game had amazing potential for more.
Hmmm. I remember really loving this game. I played is a couple years ago and I will still stand by that fact this this game is really good. Has a bit of jank sure but I think this one is a good one to go into.
Mate I was actually going to purchase this game thanks to your video, but then as I clicked on the Xbox store, I actually saw that I already owned it for subscribing to Xbox Gold a few years ago! Thanks for the free FPS I didn't know about!
I know this is a weird flex, but I played the game enough to clear the first stages using almost exclusively hand to hand even before you get your T'lan shield ability
I love this game, it was a favorite on my OG xbox back in the day. that being said, I did forget how multiple opponents are super had to fight against most of the time. Still, I would recommend people try it if they can, it is still a really cool experience, and when you legit use skill and planning to overcome some of the more difficult parts of the game, you feel like a fucking god.
I love this game, it is very Japanese, I find it fun, and quite frankly it doesn't hold your hand playing it... oh and janky in just a way that I like. Also a shame you gave up on it so soon.. it gets sooo good at the end (also even more "unfair" in certain instances)
I get what they were doing with the hand thing AND the first-person proto-Arkham/AssCreed combat, on paper (immersion, things being done in real time sound cool in planning.) However, it absolutely doesn't work as part of the gameplay loop.
This game was my favorite of all time, growing up. I think @blackmesaboy hit the nail by saying it was *trying to be ambitious* especially for its era. It was a fun game above all the flaws. but still deeply deeply flawed
Aside from the terribly designed melee combat sequences (seriously, I hate when melee-focused games design their combat in a way where it only works comfortably against one enemy, and then makes you fight whole-ass groups), I could see myself enjoying this to a degree. I've played so much jank that at this point I think I can just kinda easily adapt to that sort of crusty design.
I remember playing this on OG Xbox. I think I made it to the end, did not finish. Liked the idea of the game and would like something else like this but more fleshed out. Zeno Clash is similar to me though in some aspects.
This game looks more ahead of time aside of bad gameplays. Especially with full-body prespective where lots of modern games uses 2-ingame thirdperson and first person model
It looks pretty great, better than some of the early 360 games. It’s not exactly Halo levels of pretty but it looks better than almost anything else I can remember from that era.
Hey man, for some terrible horrible reason YT unsubscribed me. I briefly thought you had finally succumbed to the years of awful games you’ve been playing for our entertainment and benefit!
It’s good to see the AI was smart enough to at least try to kill you at the same time, let’s take turns while he kills everyone is a popular game mechanic, because invincibility frames with crazy animations are a lot of fun, but entirely unrealistic. I would imagine that the AI is sometimes staggeringly dumb in this game, is that how you are supposed to beat it?
I loved the story(legendary plot twist) and game play animation (the gun fire action was beurk) which was ground breaking... Btw CoD blackops6 just copied one scene of this game (lab on a metal fence bridge injecting yourself with serum to transform into a powergod).
Finally! Someone speaks the truth about this horrible game. I see this mess on every Xbox hidden gem list. You should have kept playing, you missed the best part. After completing one of the later levels you get to do it again, but backwards.
As miserable as this game was at times, I still was having a ton of fun hanging out with every one while streaming! If you want to hang out in the future, come follow my twitch! www.twitch.tv/jarek4gamingdragon
Walter White
Ay W.W DEA is sniffing near our RV what do I do?
Still waiting for you do a Analysis for Farcry Instincts predator.
I can forgive a lot in a game that is trying to be ambitious. I played this game back in the day and i absolutely loved it. Its hard as balls but it was like a badge of honor to have beaten it as a kid. It tried to do so many things that were so different from everything else on the market. Its definitely earned its place in my brain's list of unforgettable games.
I wholely agree, and I was an adult when it came out, and i played it, lol.
I always randomly think of this game, and think someone should give something like it another shot. Brutal as it was, the overall story is a trip; and the hand-to-hand was amazing imo.
Facts!
This is a game that's in need of a remake with better controls.
Breakdown sure gave you a breakdown while playing
*Drum sound*
hours of victory more like hours of agony
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I was about to say that
Ha
6:46 its good to see mirror reflections. Even games nowadays like Dead Island 2 don't have that little detail. Little nit picky but still
dawg not even MW2019 had it
Its because it has to render the game twice
If modern day games did that everyones PCs would meltdown
Bruh, even NOLF1 and Duke Nukem 3D had actual mirror reflections
I finished and enjoyed this game back in the day, but it definitely is a you had to be there kind of a thing. It felt really impressive and immersive at the time and I remember powering through the frustrating parts on the power of the immersion and the plot. I have fond memories of it, but on the other hand, I'm not really surprised it hasn't aged well.
I remember playing through this game with no walk through and am only now realizing this game was an absolute nightmare for most people even on just normal playthroughs
It was definitely a game made for people who are actually good at video games, not for the casual audience. Once you figure it out and git gud though, it's actually pretty easy. Jarek didn't even make it to the white room (you know the one) before he ragequit and made this video. That's pretty sad.
who else was a young buck raw doggin this game appreciating the challenge
Got a hidden gem for you
Urban Chaos
I'm amazed how few people have heard of it
He did a video on it 7 years ago but the comments are disabled. Maybe he can do a redux review like Gman.
Made by Rocksteady of Batman fame.
@@matteodelapaz1698 Jarek if you’re seeing this, please revisit the game
I don t know if it was hidden, but for sure it was cool
@@Gatorade69that was Urban Chaos Riot Response. There was another Urban Chaos on PS1 that was a 3rd person action game where you play as a cop and a vagrant trying to regain control of a crime ridden city. That one was made by Eidos. Vastly different games.
Breakdown is my favorite game of all time, but most of what you say here is valid. The guy who made it created Tekken and the team didn't have experience with FPS games only lightgun, so their ambitions outmatched what they where capable of. Breakdown's main problem was that it was decades ahead of it's time so there was no reference point for a lot of what it wanted to do, if it was made a generation later when ADS was normalized most of the shooting problems would not have existed. If you want to love Breakdown, you kind of have to treat it like you've never played a video game before and go on its terms, if you are willing to do this you can find ways to mitigate its frustrations. Crouching makes lock on shooting accurate, pistol works at range, enemies have very short tether points, so you can have one on ones in big fights(that's how i beat the room you got stuck on), shockwave does crowd control etc. In any event, I appreciate you giving it a fair shake, I'd recommend at least watching the cutscenes on UA-cam the story is incredible.
💯
This was actually my favorite video game when I was a kid. There was just something about the story, animation, and music that felt so unique to me
Breakdown is frustrating but it has a really cool story that everyone should experience. It's really deserving of a remake, stop remaking perfect games like Resident Evil and remake Breakdown!
I played this game on the Xbox one and actually enjoyed it. It was really interesting and weird. I also remember it being really difficult
I recommend checking out Condemned: Criminal Origins next. It did something similar to Breakdown, but was much more polished and functional. And pretty scary too.
The worst part of Condemned was that last mission just not being fun at all. The rest of the game is pretty much perfect though.
Me and my friends will never forget when we played breakdown. We do not have any memorable story's about condemned.
I played this game all the way through when it came out - loved the story and enjoyed the gameplay, loved it overall, one of my favorite XBOX games!
You missed the weird part at the half way point where you lose your hud and find out you where part of a simulation
Alright brothers...let's get Jarek onto Condemned
Condemned fucking sucks
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@@matteodelapaz1698 what
2004 was the best year ever for gaming so even these mediocre titles seem special in ways.
This game is the type of game to give you a breakdown
At least it isn’t Redfall :)
@@matteodelapaz1698 I would rather play Redfall than this if it has this many bullshit encounters.
@@matteodelapaz1698Redfall at least can still be fixed through patches like Cyberpunk was, this game can't.
@@LaRavachole Exactly. It’s a shame too because if this game was released as a remaster, it could be SOOO much better.
@@LaRavachole "Cyberpunk fixed" lmao
I remember this game. It was something! The graphics were 10/10 back in the day. Me and my friend group actually made a point to beat this game. It was the ultimate achievement to beat the game. The end boss was ridiculous, my one friend couldn't defeat the boss. I had to do it for him, because he didn't think it was possible. When it was cutting edge is was pretty good. Breakdown is a game I will never forget!
When you kept repeating the same actions it reminded me of Steven Seagal's terrible movie Kill Switch lol
This game looks like a first person mod for a third person game.
This game actually looks like fun. If only there was a way to patch these problems and difficulty spikes. Anyone know a game similar to this?
Zeno clash 1+2
riddick games
Condemned
Mirror's Edge, the good one from 2008.
Mirror’s Edge, way more intuitive than this.
I loved this game growing up. Beat it a few times with me guides. Only had one friend who was also playing it and we'd trade info so we could progress. I recognize how frustrating this game is and I don't think I could recommend it to anyone with hesitation but I can confidently say I'll always remember this game
Ever heard of hard-core Henry?
This game reminds me a LOT of Second Sight in its presentation and atmosphere, also an original XBOX game and a FAR superior game on a technical level. I highly recommend playing it for the channel, it's got super cool telekinetic powers and a really interesting psy-op storyline. It's also playable on Steam for only $2.50 right now! It's also made by Free Radical while they were still a company lol
There is a flying kick combo and a punch combo that incorporates the energy blast. Those 2 combos made group fights bearable
my favorite combo is the Quick Jab, Neck Breaker/ Suplex.
I really appreciate the dedication to the first-person perspective.
I loved this game waited years for some one to bring this game up again
cant believe you stopped before the game turned into that halo/half life level
i loved this janky mess of a game when i was a kid. years later when i saw how good mirrors edge looked i was way too excited. memba those days? when EA was actually creating good games?
i memba. pepperidge farm remembas too.
Breakdown is amazing.
always makes me sad when an ambitious and/or experimental game doesn’t pan out
However, there was an opponent name Escape from Butcher Bay arrive to xbox in the same year, and i believe jarek must know what happened to this sodaholic man next.
''ME ARMS!!!!!''
That by itself was subscribe worthy.
One of the most underrated games ever. It's amazing no one will change my mind.
Damn straight.
The combat sure was jank but MAN did it have atmosphere and the plot really drew you in with it's psychology stuff.
Back in the day there was nothing like it on consoles so it was something that was considered tolerable.
I wanna see them remake this game.
It might just be me, but the game sorta reminds me of Zeno Clash in a weird way.
Played this back when it came out, this game is the OG liminal spaces game. The grey office complex seems so mundane yet alienating at the same time
hey man I gotta ask, what is that background music you use in every video. It's great
This is like the second game with an ego perspective soda pop drinking scene. The other game is Another World where that happens in the intro.
This game is rad still love it today.
I would never expect to see soda drinking montage
I enjoyed and did beat the game when I saw it on Xbox backwards compatible. The problems this game has are valid though, I had monents I got infuriated but pushed on to finish the game. It's one of my favorite games now despite the flaws and it's too bad Namco didn't try to make a more polished sequel. There are other games like this that handle the gameplay much better so close enough!
The best way I've seen this game talked about is "Breakdown is fun, but you'll probably have a breakdown during it at least once."
I'm 3/4 through the game so far.
It's frustrating and rewarding. I have to constantly remind myself that it's 20 years old.
Shoot, i loved this game. It felt real and detailed. I remember the bosses gave me straight anxiety because the encounters felt authentic.
Passing this game on the hardest difficulty really gave me high blood pressure
How did you even pull that off?! the game is already hard enough as it is even on the lowest difficulty.
@@_X1M_ my older brother and I loved this game it was rough probably took a month of playing a few hours every other day but by the time we played on the hardest difficulty we knew the game fairly well. Also all the main bosses have patterns by far the hardest part was near the end when you have to fight nexus that part alone took a week easily. Really felt like a badge of honor. Def need to revisit this game soon.
@@Edwinsoda Ima give the game another try, I got towards the end of the game where you fight nexus, but never beat him, I just gave up, but ima whoop his ass this time.
Loved this game. Felt like VR without glasses.
I will accept no Breakdown slander here. An absolute classic.
Hey Jarek, I don't know if you're looking for this sort of feedback in your comment section, but I wanted to mention that I'm really enjoying the new "facecam" method. Having you in the corner in a kind of show presenter way has been really nice the last few videos and I hope it's something you continue.
I don't like it. It's just unnecessary and really weird.
Played this game and beat it, when I got to the part where you gave up I took about a 2 month break. Picked it up again and decided to finish it, and oh boy the final boss is amazing to fight in this... but the fight after... well I took a 1 or 2 year break since I had a sliver of health at my previous save just before the fight. I ended up starting a new game and got to the same point with much more health and finally finished it.
I remember playing this game 15 years ago I kept getting killed by the first Super soldier I met I was very pissed my guns didn't do anything
Well yeaaaaah. You couldn’t fight them until a bit into the game.
Usually when game creators don't like what they do with their first game they slap it as a "sequal" canonically and make a prequal that flushes the crappy things about the first game then make a remaster of the original one so that they can flesh out any problems from the prequal. Then you make tri sequal of successful games.
Ngl, i want a remake of this game and maybe a sequel since i played this a few years ago and it was awesome. Yes, guns are bad and the difficulty is utter BS. But the fact that this game had amazing potential for more.
8:14 Yeah, it's utterly unfair.
8:16 I fucking hated this room...
This is the exact same shit CoD does all the time in their singleplayer offerings, yet nobody ever brings it up
@@brawler5760 CoD at least has regenerating health, this game has NONE.
I remember wanting to play this as a kid, but I only had a Gamecube
Played the demo for this game and thought it was fucking awesome how everything was done first person perspective.
This franchise needs a good reboot with better gunplay and hand to hand combat, and platforming.
I love this game, its is my childhood and favorite original Xbox game. Its really a game where you need to get good at it.
Hmmm. I remember really loving this game. I played is a couple years ago and I will still stand by that fact this this game is really good. Has a bit of jank sure but I think this one is a good one to go into.
Definitely remember this game, I remember trying out the Demo for it on my Original Xbox
Mate I was actually going to purchase this game thanks to your video, but then as I clicked on the Xbox store, I actually saw that I already owned it for subscribing to Xbox Gold a few years ago! Thanks for the free FPS I didn't know about!
I miss the original xbox startup intro. Best one of all of them.
I know this is a weird flex, but I played the game enough to clear the first stages using almost exclusively hand to hand even before you get your T'lan shield ability
I love this game, it was a favorite on my OG xbox back in the day. that being said, I did forget how multiple opponents are super had to fight against most of the time. Still, I would recommend people try it if they can, it is still a really cool experience, and when you legit use skill and planning to overcome some of the more difficult parts of the game, you feel like a fucking god.
I used to love this game as a kid!
I love this game, it is very Japanese, I find it fun, and quite frankly it doesn't hold your hand playing it... oh and janky in just a way that I like.
Also a shame you gave up on it so soon.. it gets sooo good at the end (also even more "unfair" in certain instances)
I can't think of any game that was doing first person hand-to-hand combat besides this and mirror's edge (as a deliberate mechanic)
Riddick
@@drinkinouttacups2665 true, but it was very short
Nostalgic memories of the demo got me to buy the game digitally for Xbox One before I handed how bad it can get.
I wish they would’ve had more burgers to eat throughout the game
Speaking of interesting PS2 FPS games, have you played FromSoft (yes that) FPS game, Shadow Tower Abyss? There's English fan patches for the game.
A good exploit is to immediately block and unblock while reloading. It makes things smoother
This is my favorite kind of first person, Riddick and Kingdom Come do it the best imo.
Breakdown was fun as hell to play. I enjoyed it thoroughly
I get what they were doing with the hand thing AND the first-person proto-Arkham/AssCreed combat, on paper (immersion, things being done in real time sound cool in planning.) However, it absolutely doesn't work as part of the gameplay loop.
mental breakdown: the video game
This game was my favorite of all time, growing up. I think @blackmesaboy hit the nail by saying it was *trying to be ambitious* especially for its era. It was a fun game above all the flaws. but still deeply deeply flawed
Hey Jarek, do you remember that arena full of respawning enemies at the end of the game?
Aside from the terribly designed melee combat sequences (seriously, I hate when melee-focused games design their combat in a way where it only works comfortably against one enemy, and then makes you fight whole-ass groups), I could see myself enjoying this to a degree.
I've played so much jank that at this point I think I can just kinda easily adapt to that sort of crusty design.
I remember playing this on OG Xbox. I think I made it to the end, did not finish. Liked the idea of the game and would like something else like this but more fleshed out. Zeno Clash is similar to me though in some aspects.
Why the fuck would they animation lock you and not make you invincible lmao
At the very least they should make you invincible when you interact with objects.
I recommend expediting this game for sure but I had the exact same experience where I drop this game barely halfway
This game looks more ahead of time aside of bad gameplays. Especially with full-body prespective where lots of modern games uses 2-ingame thirdperson and first person model
It looks pretty great, better than some of the early 360 games. It’s not exactly Halo levels of pretty but it looks better than almost anything else I can remember from that era.
Hey man, for some terrible horrible reason YT unsubscribed me. I briefly thought you had finally succumbed to the years of awful games you’ve been playing for our entertainment and benefit!
"Okay, Rivals of Aether is not a traditional fighting game", it's better.
Thanks for the information 👍👍
Me and my brother made it to the dinosaurs
It’s good to see the AI was smart enough to at least try to kill you at the same time, let’s take turns while he kills everyone is a popular game mechanic, because invincibility frames with crazy animations are a lot of fun, but entirely unrealistic. I would imagine that the AI is sometimes staggeringly dumb in this game, is that how you are supposed to beat it?
I loved the story(legendary plot twist) and game play animation (the gun fire action was beurk) which was ground breaking... Btw CoD blackops6 just copied one scene of this game (lab on a metal fence bridge injecting yourself with serum to transform into a powergod).
Oh God I played this recently. Was funky
This game is impressive for it's time and has some very interesting ideas and design. Too bad it was poorly executed.
Finally! Someone speaks the truth about this horrible game. I see this mess on every Xbox hidden gem list. You should have kept playing, you missed the best part. After completing one of the later levels you get to do it again, but backwards.
YES FINALLY SOMEONE ACTUALLY KNOWS THOS GAME OTHER THAN ME
You should try The Regiment game made by Konami made in 2006 I think it's abandonware now.Seems right up your alley.
Hey Jarek, play zeno clash, a first person beat n' up, and a incredible acid trip
This was a interesting game to beat it was fun but very frustrating at times.
Bad or not, that box art is awesome.
4:19 sorry if i missed it but what game referred here?
F.E.A.R. One of the greatest FPSs of all time