Too Human has been a long time in the making, originally in development for the Playstation, then the Gamecube and now finally it has found a home on the Xbox 360. The game is planned as part of a trilogy and the developers revealed to us recently that these games are already quite far down the line.

At the beginning of the game you must choose a character class, enabling you to play the game the way you prefer, classes include a Bioengineer (healing), Commando (a more offensive character), Champion (the all-rounder), Defender (defense based character) and the Berserker (offensive character), of course all of these characters have their good and bad points, they also all have a different appearance, although your face never changes due to the fact that you are unable to customise your character in this way.

The biggest difference you will notice between this game and any other is the controls, the developer has decided that it would be a good idea to use the right analogue stick for combat, leaving the game to control the camera, oh dear. While this system takes some getting used to, having the right stick as your attack actually works ok, the problem is that its just nowhere near as good as using the face buttons, for one the camera is terrible and never goes where you need it to be, and another problem is that when you are attacking an enemy in front of you suddenly your back is wide open and thanks to the camera trying to turn around to attack an enemy who is behind you is a more difficult task than it should be. 

So what are the games strong points? Well apart from the major omission that is split screen co-op (a big mistake not including this in my opinion), it has to be said that the online multiplayer is definitely the best part of the game. Online co-op basically takes all the levels you can play through in single player and adds another player, minus the cut scenes, when you can find someone to play with this is a great mode and almost worth the price of the game along, my main question here though would be, how long before you can’t find anyone willing to play through with you?

Graphically the game is pretty substandard, while the cutscenes are of a decent quality, the same cannot be said for the action itself, the camera as mentioned earlier has a mind of it’s own and the gameplay does have some serious flaws, for example when I was playing co-op online, during one of the scenes I could see my colleagues character but mine was stuck in the scenery, with only the gunfire giving away my position. The most irritating thing about Too Human however is when your character dies and the Angel comes down to resurrect you, while this is ok at first, after a while it will really start to grind when you have to go through the cutscene yet again without the option to skip it.