Did you play Far Cry for the PC? And you haven't watched the video, so you don't really have the information I have.

And what book called 'Empire' are you talking about? - Oh, it was the Orson Scott Card one. Too bad the first 7 minutes seem to have absolutely no connection to the book.

I don't see how calling it generic is off when that's what it is. The comparison to Metroid isn't a problem, it's no secret that they took their inspiration from it. It's that it they lifted the gameplay straight out of Metroid and made everything else generic. You have a generic everyday guy going to save his generic girlfriend from generic badguys in a generic complex. I think the baffling part to me was that even the power ups were generic but wwere mimicking their Metroid counterparts. Maybe I understood it wrong but the guy finds his girlfriend's backpakc and now he had the ability to climb ledges and wall jump? That makes no sense to me.

So you read it?

Ever heard of a 'Summary'? Or 'Wikipedia'? Both pretty good ways of learning what a book is about. And here's the kicker: Orson Scott Card was licensed to write a book based on the Empire property, owned by Chair - developers of Shadow Complex. So in fact the book is based on the game/universe, not the other way around. While I cannot speak for the book, the entire universe seems highly generic.

Added an Edit to my post...guess you missed it...I was asking you about the book becuase I have not read it....What are you going on about?

So you read it?

Edit:

[edit] Video game

Empire is not an original Orson Scott Card project, but rather stems from the development of the Empire video game. The game is being developed by the brothers Donald and Geremy Mustard, founders of the newly formed Chair Entertainment Group development studio. Card was contacted by Donald Mustard and offered the chance to develop the game's storyline as well as a novel to set the series into action.^[11]

The Xbox Live Arcade Game Shadow Complex was announced by Donald Mustard to be a tie-in to the second installment of Orson Scott Card's Empire Trilogy.

Not Card's first(or possibly his last) involvement in video games.  He also co-written the script of Advent Rising

By the same developers, you should add. It's starting to get difficult to say whose world Empire really is.

You responded to my first post with "How was Empire?" and to my second post with "So you read it?" after previously saying that the game is not generic because it's based on the book. Since I made no mention of the book in either of my posts, nor did I imply that I had read it, I could only assume that 'It's based on Empire so it's not generic' as well as 'If you haven't read Empire, don't bother trying to talk to me' was what you were trying to say. This appeared to be your defense against the game being called generic.

That's what I was going on about.