8 to Glory has 30 seconds of content that it repeats ad nauseam for the extent of its run time.
I don?t mean that 8 to Glory has a 30 second loop, the short, fun series of actions that form the core of gameplay. I mean that once you?ve played 30 seconds of this game, you have experienced all that it has to offer. And those 30 seconds aren?t good.
The Rhythm Probably Won’t Get You
As the subtitle states, the bull riding sim developed by Three Gates is the Official Game of the PBR (Professional Bull Riders, Inc., not to be confused with Pabst Blue Ribbon), and, as a result, boasts all the love and polish of the cheaply made branded cash-ins of old. Remember when every movie, children?s TV show and even food mascots got their own console game tie-in" 8 to Glory does and wants to get in on the action. Surprisingly, the way 8 to Glory attempts to do that is with a rhythm game. Well, actually, it?s a few different kinds of rhythm games smashed together. After selecting a rider from a roster of a few dozen real PBR athletes, you?ll clamber into the stirrups. Then, you’ll test your grip strength on the saddle horn before being released into the ring.
This moment plays out like the hacking minigame from BioShock 2. You have three attempts to stop a swiftly moving white line at the moment that it passes over a small white strip. With each graded attempt the white strip gets smaller, thus your job more difficult. Despite playing through the entirety of the campaign, ...