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twesterm on 09 December 2007
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krik said:

The game is amazing. Good story, good cut scenes, great gameplay, the best water and lighting I've ever seen (even better than Crisis) and some of the best graphics and level design I've ever had the pleasure to play through.


First off, I completely agree that the game is fun and looks great, but I'm in chapter 11 (or 12, I forget) and I have a few criticisms about the level/game design.

  1. The piss poor damn boat levels. These are seriously some of the most unfun levels I've ever played. The first one you can't move and shoot at the same time, the enemies blend into everything-- they might as well be chameleons, the controls are beyond shitty, and why the fuck are there exploding barrels that if you even tip floating everywhere?
  2. Continuing on the crappy boat levels, the second set at least lets you move and shoot but you have a crappy pistol that can't hit for crap. To make things worse on the shitty controls part, you now have current so it makes the enemies even harder to hit and the controls even worse. Seriously, the boat level in Half-Life 2 was better than these garbage levels. I'll be so happy if I'm done with these.
  3. Why can I sometimes fall 20 feet and other times I can't fall 10 feet?
  4. Why can I fall 20 feet but I die if I fall in water that I swim in 20 minutes later?
  5. Some of the platforming is terrible mainly due to terrible fixed cameras (in fact, I don't think there's a fixed camera section I like yet).
  6. As long as you don't ask why was that enemy sitting on a place I just spent 10 minutes climbing to, why did I bother working so hard for those keys if there's obviously another way around since enemies are on the other side of the door, or just ask why in general you shouldn't have too much trouble with accepting why the enemies are in some places they are.
  7. I think every encounter starts out with me running and then enemies popping out of nowhere shooting me and then me frantically running for cover.
  8. While thinking of cover, the cover system is shit.
  9. Did I mention I hate the boat levels with a passion?
  10. The encounters are starting to get a little stale since they are pretty much the same.
And the list goes on. I do like the game, but saying it's the best level design is crazy.