Fahrenheit - XBox - A second Look

I tried playing Fahrenheit on the XBox again yesterday. And some of the features that i may have initial thought were cool i know find very very tedious. One part of the game you have the characters working out in the gym and it's pretty much the same as GTA: SA where you quickly click alternating buttons so they can do some form of exercise. Except in Fahrenheit you have to quickly click the Left and Right triggers. This is sooooo hard to do, the triggers just aren't meant to be used in this manner, i ended up holding the controller with my knees and using 3 fingers on each trigger to get the character to workout.... I think it would have been easier if i'd actually done the workout myself.

Then there was another part where you have to navigate a character around the basement while quickly clicking the triggers.... after about the 10th attempt at this and the character about to commit suicide i was going to throw the controller at the TV, but figured it would actually be cheaper if i just turned the game off....

One thing i'm still impressed with is how you have to use the left and right thumbsticks to match a pattern on the screen - so when left flashes you move the thumbstick left... this is fairly easy to follow. Only while you're watching what thumbstick to move you miss out on what action is going on on the screen. There was one section where your character is trying to escape these giant bugs in his office building, Daniel who was watching me play was going "aw, oh wow, check that out" etc But of course i couldn't check out what he was so impressed with cause i had to watch out for the next move to perform.... So it's good and bad....

Interesting story - But painful to play.