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mirgro on 17 March 2010
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So I finished the game. The story is awesome, except the ending is kinda disappointing. Not that the ending itself was disappointing, it's just that there was so little explained in the end. The game however is amazing. It's a very fresh feeling, and I enjoyed it greatly, definitely the best game so far out this year. I haven't finished GoW3, but let me put it this way, I dropped GoW3 midway so I can play this to the end.

I didn't count too much, but the amount of enemies in the game is sizeable. New enemies were being introduced all the way up until the last level, however adversities would be brought up and then almost never used again later in the game. The game could have been so much longer than it is that it's almost a shame. At the same time it took me about 15 hours to finish on hardcore, so if you die less it's probably about 10 hours. But damn they were the most amazing 10 hours in the last several years of gaming. I just really wish the game was longer of the same quality, it definitely could have been. I didn't get the hang of all the different mechanics, especially the stealth, almost up until the end. Having completely mastery over the stealth and going around killing people with throwing knives rambo style was extremely satisfying.

Overall, calling this game an FPS would be quite unfair, yet it's the best description we have of it. It's as much an FPS as Deus Ex was and ultimately would have been as good as DE if it only had a few more mechanics in it and some more time of gameplay.

@jeff
I am not 100% sure but it seemed my CPU was running only at 50%, which means just 2 cores. Maybe I was just not reading it right or it dropped to two cores when alt tabbed but it was really 4 cores during gameplay.

@CGI
I highly doubt that is even remotely possible. My PC can push many times more polygons and shaders at a higher resolution than a 360 ever will be able to and I can't even play it on highest settings because when things get busy on screen my FPS drops to 20. Have to play it on High to have a consistent FPS over 40. Don't kid yourself, the 360 version can't even come close to the PC version in therms of graphics. Although reading some of the 360 reviews it seems that there's a lot more things inferior on the 360 than just graphics or, and this is far more probable to be honest, reviewers are just idiots.

In fact I can't believe how many of the reviewers didn't understand how the game worked. Just as an example, just about all of them say how throwing knives are inconsistent because sometimes they 1 hit enemies, and other times they just bounce off. If the reviewers weren't complete idiots they would have realized that the armor on enemies also falls under per-pixel hit detection, so for knives not to bounce they have to hit a spot not covered in armor.