Episode 2 gets a lot of undeserved hate. Personally it was my favorite. I loved the combat system, and the game was actually difficult and had a lot of great post-game stuff you could do.
All the games have a phenomenal story, but I felt Episode 3 watered down the combat. It just felt like I was going through the motions more than it did in Episode 2, where you actually had to form some kind of strategy. I had more fun with Episode 2 than any of the others.
So don't listen to everyone who says Episode 2 is bad, judge for yourself. I did and waited a long time to play it, and was completely surprised how much I enjoyed it when I finally played the game.
Episode 3's one saving grace was that the mech combat was extremely well done.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
