Slimebeast said:
lol I almost knew that. That's why I tried with STALKER first. But some make a good argument of why it's good: http://www.destructoid.com/rev-rant-the-most-important-game-of-2008-139121.phtml I think the short version is that you can approach each task with a variety of different methods. I love that in games and I think it works in shooters too. Even Crisis did that to a degree including the sequel. Personally I even thought Crisis 1 was too linear. |
Oh it sure has its good sides, but unfortunately they get lost between the HUGE annoyances that happen between the missions.
I don't know if you've ever played it, but let me say that you need to drive constantly across the whole map to get from your savehouse to your quest giver, who lives in a town and then naturally another 5 kilometers to your mission objective.
(it's not always the same person and you probably get to different locations the more you play, but I'm just giving my impressions based from the first 2 or so hours.)
If that's not bad enough for an FPS, here is what truly kills the game. Along the road there are tons of checkpoints guarded by enemy soldiers and they respawn EVERYTIME you come back. Furthermore you CAN'T just simply drive around these checkpoints, because there is mostly jungle around it and if you drive through, there will ALWAYS be one car (maybe more, I don't really remember) that follows and shoots at you.
Now of course there is this guy who sells guns and I think also some upgrades, but of course he has his own shack somewhere in the jungle and you can guess why visiting him sucks.
The sandbox aspect i.e. the driving totally kills the game. The missions aren't bad.
