Bionic Commando: Rearmed is a very enjoyable game it features 20 levels, and 50 more levels which you can train and hone your skill. It has an Easy, Medium and Hard difficulty and also co-op. It has to be the best looking and playing game out on the Arcades. But does it have what it takes to beat the others?

Bionic Commando: Rearmed starts of with a training mode, it teaches you how to use your grappling hook which is the bionic arm attached to your character. The arm lets you grab on to the ceiling and swing to other platforms. As you progress you unlock upgrades for arm, weapons, and suit. You will have a pistol, rocket launcher, laser, and a verity of other weapons at your disposal. As you play the game you will begin to find that it gets repetitive making you do the same tasks for every level. You most first find a floppy disc which allows you to enter a communication tower, in the tower you must contact home base, then hack the communication tower. This in turn will open a door leading to the bosses for each level.  So at times it seems to get quite confusing but the game is quite linear so don’t be afraid of getting lost. Some levels are really big but all levels have you wanting to go up, or to the right. Once you reach the top of level and have found nothing that tells you to just continue moving right till you do find something. While I say there are 20 levels that is not completely true, some levels you are at base which don’t have you doing anything other than picking up a floppy disc, or a weapon/suit upgrade. But all levels which you are at home base for have “Training Simulations”. These simulations are wire frame levels which have you most using your bionic arm to beat each in the fastest time possible. All 50 levels get progressively harder.  In the beginning you may not think that it is important to play these simulation but as you get to harder and harder levels you will wish you had played them. Bionic Commando: Rearmed does have a steep learning curve but once you get over it, it is a very enjoyable game.
The Levels of difficulty are quite self explanatory, Easy, Medium, and Hard, and get harder with the respected level.

In Co-op you can invite up to 4 of your buddies to play, but only locally which is a disappointment,  but what we have now is fine for a party game. Co-op story has you beating the story with your friends, but the AI will react to the change in characters and will get harder, making you work together. For example on the first boss you have to throw barrels at it to knock it down. In single player you can beat the boss almost every time with your first knock down, but with co-op the boss has more life which makes you have to work together to defeat the boss. In Vs you have the normal kill or be killed game, but the Bionic Commando only exclusive mode is Don’t Touch the ground. In this mode player can’t touch the bottom of the level, the player bullets have no impact what so ever on the player’s life the only way to die is to touch the bottom. The only way to “persuade” the other players to is to shoot them, hitting the other player will knock them  backwards, but the good player can quickly latch on using the Arm and shoot you back.
Bionic Commando: Rearmed looks very impressive for an arcade game. The engine and graphics are impeccable only slipping up once in awhile.

Over all Bionic Commando: Rearmed is a definite purchase with anyone who has a family or friends who always come over. This is a 100% BUY!