- Jul 31, 2001
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Wow I'm not done but I had to make a post about this game. The SP is great, gamespot definitely made the ratings too low. The Doom3 graphics engine makes all the interiors INCREDIBLE. And the game play is so much more interesting then what Doom3 had with the cheesy scares and what not. I'll edit this post when I'm done but heres a short list I made of things I like/dislike about this game:
PROs:
-Interior graphics, ambience
-Smart teammates that actually kill things
-Really cool flashlight effects
-Level design is amazing
-Variation in gameplay (vehicles etc)
-Relatively linear game play that doesn't force me to run around in circles finding a key
CONs:
-Weak storyline. Actually not much of a storyline to speak of other than you're in a war. I guess that's more realistic
-Only the machine gun and pistol has flashlights. I'm tempted to look for another flashlight mod for this. Its rather annoying to be forced to use the machiengun all the time because thats the only one with a flashlight
-Odd pickup placement. While the idea of having teh badguys dissapear was interesting, it kind of forced them to put pickups at interesting places. I always wondered why there would be a SMC ammo crate deep inside a Strogg facility, somewhere thats so heavily guarded entire squads can't get in.
-Bad guys more or less the same. They shoot ******, you kill them. Thats basically the jist of all the enemies minus the bosses. It would be interesting to add some different enemies like the cyberninjas in FEAR.
-If I could command the marines. Sometimes it gets annoying when my guys rush way ahead of me straight into strogg forces while im in teh back trying to pick them off.
-Gamespot already mentioned this but the outdoor scenes dont feel real because you're always flanked on both sides by walls. So you never feel like you're outdoors like in FarCry. A limitation of the engine I guess.
PROs:
-Interior graphics, ambience
-Smart teammates that actually kill things
-Really cool flashlight effects
-Level design is amazing
-Variation in gameplay (vehicles etc)
-Relatively linear game play that doesn't force me to run around in circles finding a key
CONs:
-Weak storyline. Actually not much of a storyline to speak of other than you're in a war. I guess that's more realistic
-Only the machine gun and pistol has flashlights. I'm tempted to look for another flashlight mod for this. Its rather annoying to be forced to use the machiengun all the time because thats the only one with a flashlight
-Odd pickup placement. While the idea of having teh badguys dissapear was interesting, it kind of forced them to put pickups at interesting places. I always wondered why there would be a SMC ammo crate deep inside a Strogg facility, somewhere thats so heavily guarded entire squads can't get in.
-Bad guys more or less the same. They shoot ******, you kill them. Thats basically the jist of all the enemies minus the bosses. It would be interesting to add some different enemies like the cyberninjas in FEAR.
-If I could command the marines. Sometimes it gets annoying when my guys rush way ahead of me straight into strogg forces while im in teh back trying to pick them off.
-Gamespot already mentioned this but the outdoor scenes dont feel real because you're always flanked on both sides by walls. So you never feel like you're outdoors like in FarCry. A limitation of the engine I guess.