The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
I know this has been discussed a bit on my last Xbox game thread, but it is probably worth a thread of its own now a few of us have the game.
I have played probably 20 minutes, and my initial thoughts are:
"oh"
Really not convinced at the moment.
The graphics are Ok I suppose if you like grey.
Character models are decent if blisteringly cliched - especially the player models
The combat is annoyingly confusing - I find myself shooting my own guys more often than not.
The combat also seems to suffer from Halo syndrome - ie, enemies that require 300 bullets in them before they die, which is frankly boring.
Locational damage with the default weapons seems to be non existant, which is pretty unforgivable for a next gen game - a head shot is a head shot and should be rewarded as such. Equally, arm shots should disarm (ha-ha) your opponents etc.
I cannot get the chainsaw to work properly - there seems to be no enjoyable skill to it, you just seem to have to stab at the red button and then either watch as the canned animation takes over and you shred your opponent, or - more often than not - they hit you in the face and you die.
The cover system is Ok in parts - certainly leaping from cover to cover seems fun enough to start with, but it becomes annoying when you find out that the cover system really is very basic.
Your cannot pin your enemies down with fire - they pop their heads up and spray you with unnerringly accurate fire regardless of whether you are already peppering their cover and their exposed soft bits with bullets, and they will happily run towards you taking fire and hitting you back at the same time which is not what I really expected from the game.
So um - yeah.
I will keep playing and see what happens, but on first look, I can't say I would enthusiastically recommend it to anyone.
(oh and: the blood that sprays off you when you are getting hit looks rubbish - like cartoon blood with wierd black bits to it.)
I have played probably 20 minutes, and my initial thoughts are:
"oh"
Really not convinced at the moment.
The graphics are Ok I suppose if you like grey.
Character models are decent if blisteringly cliched - especially the player models
The combat is annoyingly confusing - I find myself shooting my own guys more often than not.
The combat also seems to suffer from Halo syndrome - ie, enemies that require 300 bullets in them before they die, which is frankly boring.
Locational damage with the default weapons seems to be non existant, which is pretty unforgivable for a next gen game - a head shot is a head shot and should be rewarded as such. Equally, arm shots should disarm (ha-ha) your opponents etc.
I cannot get the chainsaw to work properly - there seems to be no enjoyable skill to it, you just seem to have to stab at the red button and then either watch as the canned animation takes over and you shred your opponent, or - more often than not - they hit you in the face and you die.
The cover system is Ok in parts - certainly leaping from cover to cover seems fun enough to start with, but it becomes annoying when you find out that the cover system really is very basic.
Your cannot pin your enemies down with fire - they pop their heads up and spray you with unnerringly accurate fire regardless of whether you are already peppering their cover and their exposed soft bits with bullets, and they will happily run towards you taking fire and hitting you back at the same time which is not what I really expected from the game.
So um - yeah.
I will keep playing and see what happens, but on first look, I can't say I would enthusiastically recommend it to anyone.
(oh and: the blood that sprays off you when you are getting hit looks rubbish - like cartoon blood with wierd black bits to it.)
