I have played fully through Ryse. The graphics and entire premise of this game are so cool, but the fighting is PISS POOR. The actual combat and executions are the highlight of the game, and after an hour I couldn't stand it. It blows me away at how the actual gameplay element of these was done in a way that ended up so boring, devil may cry or even something akin to Darksiders or Bayonetta would have been much much better even though already done to death. Maybe not as gruesomely but still done to death. I mean you can't even mess up the executions...It is literally the closest a game of this type has ever come to not letting you play the game and being only an interactive movie. If the one element they needed to get right was right this game would have been epic. I loved certain setpieces and other aspects of the game including MP, but the core fighting in this game is quite possibly the most repetitive and boring ever in this genre. Think Ninja Gaiden 3 repetition, yeah seriously, but Ryse is probably slightly more repetitive and you can't mess up the executions...Also the second of slo mo before every hit got SOOOO annoying after the first hour. That should have only been implemented for specific hits or timings not everything ! It makes every fight feel the exact same.
