For starters not all of them were elite, the only difference between the standard DG trooper and a regular ShinRa MP is the uniform. Only the elite troopers, the SOLDIERs and the Tsviets are enhanced superhumans.

Second of all, they weren't just randomly doing stuff. How long has it been since you played? They were all following Weiss, whom they swear loyalty to as the emperor of Deepground. Weiss was possesed by Hojo's mind fragments and Hojo wanted to set the clock ahead on the coming of Omega WEAPON, so that he could become one with it and have his knowledge grow infinitely. Hojo was a crazy guy, I wouldn't put something like that past him.

Azul was a bit generic, I'll give you that. Weiss is a lot better in the DoC Online mode, because he isn't being controlled by that douche Hojo. Shelke had her moments, but mostly she was a decent addition.

Here is a link to a cutscene in DoCnline showin the power of Weiss even in his base form.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QfjkzLK3Cw

Its definitely my favorite of the online mode scenes.

Shelke was a retard. Somehow she got messed up so she has no personality and never grows up. Only explanation for that is she found Neverland and was forced to live there. Plus what was the stupidity about Shelke having Lucrecia's files uploaded into her brain so that she would talk or act like Lucrecia at times. That made no sense at all. When I first saw her in trailers I was like, "Who is this stupid little kid?"

Anyway, the game altogether wasn't too bad. Storyline was the main reason I even played.... although once you got to the levels where Nero was running around there was pretty much no story.

The final boss was completely stupid. I thought I would be fighting the real Omega, flying around in the sky (with full control of Vincent's flying mind you)..... but no. We had to fight a dumbed down version of Omega with Weiss attached to it. It's exactly the same as in FFIX when you're fighting whoever it is and you win and then all of a sudden the great god Necron comes down to attack and it just made you go WTF?

They could have fixed so much with this game and it's a shame they didn't. I will say though that they did do a good job recreating Shinra Mansion and the Sector 7 Train Graveyard.

If I get around to it I just might try to finish those missions they have after you beat the game. I did a few and I noticed that SE didn't work out all the bugs with the missions. Sometimes I found myself walking into a room of nothingness and 5 soldiers were floating in front of me shooting.

No one talking about Deepground in any other compilation titles does make sense though. Only President ShinRa, Scarlet, Heidegger and Hojo knew about it, and they had no reason to bring up DG in FFVII. If only 4 people in the entire world know about smething then its a fairly easy secret to keep.

I find the game a distraction at best. The storyline was OK...but it didn't really fit the Vincent that we had come to know from elsewhere. The gameplay got a little repetitive too...but I play it every once and while still.

I really enjoyed DoC. It was nice to play an RPG character in a 3rd person shooter perspective, and explore various areas of FF7 in a different view. The storyline wasn't as solid as the original game, but its nice to have some elaboration on Vincent's character. As for the gameplay, while it was nothing new, it was fun. It had various challenges like unlocking Ultima weapon and the extra missions, and I enjoyed the long range and close range shootouts and spamming melee attacks to large groups of enemies. To be honest i prefer it to an RPG sequel, as playing the same characters in another RPG seems rather dull, and I'd much rather play them in a different perspective.