I beat this game last night. I'd have to say that it was honestly the most disappointing game I played this year. I'd been following this game for a couple years now and it always looked great in the gameplay videos, but in actual practice all the cool tricks like rolling back on roll carts, swinging on chandeliers, blowing up the environment so things fall on guys- all that stuff was not that practical at all in-game. I mean I think I used a roll cart maybe twice throughout the whole game as they were so rare and hard to use. To me, most of the game was just a lot of slow-mo diving while being shot at the whole time. It just felt clunky and cheap to me. It kind of reminded me of the action in Crackdown, but the infiltration scenes of that game were only there to punctuate the action, but that game was more about exploring and platforming. Here it is the whole thing. All just a bunch of shooting and being shot at, with little of the strategy, variety, or immersiveness that make other shooters fun.
I keep hoping that there's some great secret to enjoying this game. Maybe learning how to use certain moves and replay certain environments until I learn their innermost secrets- I may try playing the game again on Hard since I still have it rented for another few days, but I can't really motivate myself too when I feel I'd rather replay Bioshock. So have other people found the game getting better on a second playthrough?
ing hate that level.
