The big difference that I enjoy, over 1st person view mode, though is seeing the character.

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In co-op mode, each player takes their character of choice, and plays through the whole campaign as either Kirk or Spock.

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In career mode, where you create a character and try and advance up the world rankings, you start off pretty slow and you will shank lots of easy shots, much like in Top Spin 3.

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Through the console you can set your character to hostile and fight other players in co-op mode.

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Unlike many games, the stealth mode actually adds a ton of value to your character, especially if you plan on playing a rogue rather than a brawler.

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The "teach me" mode guided us through the different meanings and readings of each character and over 700 animated demonstrations of stroke order.

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Alhough Mr Johnston paints Wordsworth as a flawed character, he also reclaims him as a swashbuckling young Romantic in the Byronic mode.

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One drawback was that in the teach-me mode, we didn't see all of the examples of compound kanji words that the reference mode gave us. (A kanji can have different readings and, depending on the character or characters it is combined with, different meanings.) App creator Rory Prior says he is considering adding a vocabulary-training feature to the teach-me mode to address that.

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To simply level my character high enough to complete the next level of story quest, I either grind or join a different game mode.

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