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Have any of you played this yet?
Ive had a go and have to say that its very very impressive.
Graphics and Sound are some of the most stunning ive seen, making the game completely immersible. Playing in the dark with headphones on (surround sound) there were moments when i actually jumped.
Game play is good too, lots of action mixed with some small halflife style puzzle solving of how to get from one place to another. When the action is there, it is very fast paced with bullets and grenades going off all around the place. The AI is unrelenting and you will get situations where the enemy will camp it out and wait for you to pop around the corner, or they will advance and throw grenades around the corner and then rush you. One guy even crept up to the corner and as i was about to leap out, he stuck his gun around the corner, waggled it and fired. They are also quite tactial and will flank around to try and get behind you without realising - fortunately my surround sound saved my ass.
One of the main features of the game is the SlowMo mode. Which is basically a rechargable bullet time. For a small period of time you can enter slow mo mode, which simulates you having faster reactions. Using slowmo you can take out more enemies quicker and aim easier as they dont fire back as fast.
As well as the traditional / no traditional weapons - there are a few melee combat moves for you to utilise. Ranging from a pistol whip, to a running flying or sliding kick, these moves can be used most of the time to kill a single oponent in one hit. However, i have rarely used these as normally by the time your close to someone, they spot you, or they have a mate just around the corner who is ready to place a well aimed clip from a submachine gun into your body.
The selection of weapons is not too shabby either. You can carry only three different weapons at a time, so you have to be carefull what you pick up. My typical setup was a shotgun, fully automatic rifle and either an armour piercing harpoon like gun or an antimatter gun thing which reminds me of a railgun. There are other guns too, none of which i will go into detail on. However, one that is worth mentioning is is the armour piercing harpoony kinda gun (as you can see, i forgot the name). This gun does a lot of damage but the cool thing about it, is that sometime you can pin the enemy to the wall with the bullet. The enemies body will be hinged to the wall like a dummy. its great. On one enemy i even managed to blow him up with a grenade and whilst he was in the air, fire the harpoony gun and pin him high up on the wall.
A selection of three grenades are there to help you, traditional frag grenades, proximity grenades and remote detonating grenades. All of which have their different times and place to use. Just be aware that the AI is very very good and so if you throw a proximity grenade out whilst they know you are there, they either wont come ove rit or will shoot it. Use them wisely.
There is a story to the game, which has a couple of different threads, but i dont want to give away anything so i wont go into them, save to say that its worth watching the cutscenes and listening to all the answer phones messages, laptop messages etc.
Throughout the game you are in contact with members of your team, through a comms headset type thing. However, sometimes that goes a bit fuzzy when "certain things" happen. You can also over hear the enemy units and their language is quite colourfull (i think its modelled on pyle).
One thing that may bug some people is that it seems to be a bit, not too much, but a bit linear. Now im not sure whether thats me just choosing the right paths most of the time or if its desinged that way, either way you spend minimal time looking for the right way to go.
There is so much more to say about this game, but i dont want to ruin it so just go get it and play it.
I rate this game 8/9 out of 10.
With an adult theme and language (as well as toggleable gore) this is not for children and parents with younguns (15 and under) might not want their kids to be playing this.
Thank you and good nite.
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) - loved the demo and cant wait to get the game installed on my PC.
Originally Posted by zachig
game rocks 
