2 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 30.4 hrs on record (12.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: 29 Jun, 2014 @ 11:16pm
Updated: 2 Jul, 2014 @ 3:49pm

I'm going to start by saying that this is probably the best single player FPS game that's come out in quite a while, mostly because it's so well balanced in terms of gameplay. You can run-and-gun while dual weilding ‒ sliding around and dealing wads of dps ‒ take the usually optional stealthy route that prevents reinforcements from arriving, or simply play it like a cover based shooter. Typically you'll end up doing whichever one is most appropriate for the circumstance you find yourself in, but the option to do any of them is always there and usually always viable. The guns are freaking huge and pretty damn satisfying to shoot, the terrain that eneimes use for cover is normally completely destructible, and the stealth is rather intuitve and effective. It does all three styles well rather than just being a big brown puddle of boring and ineffective mechanics like most shooters that try to give you different gameplay options.

The story is pretty decent, with a lot of fairly memorable characters and an interesting take on a Nazi ruled planet. The dialogue and plot are what happens when you mash a gritty comicbook and an over the top action movie together. It's rather likable, but if you're looking for something with some semblance of realism then you're in the wrong place. Also, there are some pretty humorous parts of the game where the characters basically acknowledge that you're probably the most effective soldier to ever live, and the character interactions are normally not whiney or depressed in nature, they're more dynamic than that. They'll bicker, berate, tease, jest, laugh, cry, talk, complain, and do basically anything normal people would do with one another. It's definitly not 2 dimensional or anything.

In terms of fidelity it's decent but not fantastic. There are a lot of textures that just seem off, one that really bugged me was how pens and papers are actually just 2d parts of the desk textures. Speaking of textures, most of the non-cover and weapon textures are pretty poor, but to be fair they're hard to notice since you move around so much. Other than that there's not a lot to complain about, but ‒ then again ‒ there's not a lot to really praise.

Lastely, I'd just like to say that the levels and environments are really important parts of any FPS, and this game definitly has a lot of variety and good design when it comes to them. If you're worried that you'll be stuck in a brown corodor shooting faceless white guys in grey uniforms the whole time then you can relinquish those fears. You get to go to some pretty cool places and do some pretty awesome stuff. It's part of the whole ludicrous plot I was talking about earlier.

That's it. I hope that you found this at least slightly helpful. I can't tell you what you'll like, but I can at least try to give you a decent idea of what to expect. Whether or not you like what you hear is up to you, of course.
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[ callibretto ] 2 Jul, 2014 @ 3:45pm 
nice review