I borrowed MP3 from a friend - I wasn't going to play it, cause I really hate FPS games, but he said it was awesome, so I'm giving it a try.
So I'm 3-4 hours in right now, and I have to say... I'm not having fun. I'm constantly confused and don't know what I have to do. And the whole scanning thing is ridiculous. What's the point of having to activate a visor, pressing Z, waiting for some slow scrolling techno babble text, ... just to be allowed to hit a switch?
The graphics are very nice, but often it's hard to distinguish important objects from the background, IMO. Often I'll enter another huge grey-brownish room, and it takes me 10 minutes to even see the objects I'm supposed to interact with.
The controls work great, mostly. Of course I'm having the usual FPS disorientation problems, but that's just me, I know :) Often I'd love to switch to third person view (morph ball gameplay is fun, btw).
Hmm, that probably sounds like I'm a bit dumb. I hope I'm not! Actually, I'd wouldn't consider myself a bad gamer, I finished SMG with 120 stars with no trouble.
But keep in mind that I've
- never played a Metroid game before
- never played a FPS before (save for some minutes of Wolfenstein on my brothers PC, 15 years ago)
- usually don't like combat based gameplay.
Currently playing: NSMB (Wii)
