Now to the known problems. Several of the major problems reported by PC users seem to have been directly ported to the Macintosh version including the loss of preferences. It is odd that although the game allows multiple identities, it is not possible to have individual settings of your preferences. Another frustrating aspect of this is that everyone using the game will have access to have all the levels gained by anyone who has played the game. Controls are not made very clear, it is necessary to thoroughly read the manual in order to play the game correctly. Jet packs in the game just refuse to work at times for no reason at all. There are sound problems with 10.1.3 where there are occasionally no voices in the cut-scenes. With all this stated the worse 'problem' appears to be a lack of ending to the game (the sound files are ok but the end scene movie does not appear to be there).

From what I have been able to piece together from PC sites the actual plot after the Sea Reaper levels seems to have been almost completely messed up Delphi supposedly grabs the gem that summons Kabuto from her mother and transforms into a Kabuto, leading into the Kabuto levels and accounting for the last level of the game. All in all the game has great potential but bugs, the dishonesty about multiplayer and the repetition of some of the levels let the side down. This is a game with a Message on, and that message is: beware of false advertising.

It is pretty good fun multiplayer but the single player gets rather boring rather quickly. Giants is a seriously mixed bag and one that needs a bit of thought before purchase.

(*** out of *****)