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A gigantic pile of dogshit, in my opinion.
This is a huge long bitch thread, yes, but I just beat the game in 4 hours and immediately put it back in the Gamefly envelope. Got it today, it goes back tomorrow. I almost quit playing it halfway through the first level, but I pushed on, just so I could crap all over it to anyone who would listen.
TL;DR version - I hated it, a LOT.
I can't comment on the multiplayer, so I'll relegate my comments to single player only on the Xbox 360
I haven't completed a less enjoyable game in some time. From the moment the game begins, and attempts to paint a grim picture of an occupying force performing atrocities in our homeland by using shock, gore, and over-dramatic heart wrenching scenes of violence, it's revealed its hand. The only thing this game was lacking in the tour-de-horrible down Main Street at the beginning, was a 'drop-off-your-dog, because we're going to eat it in front of you' scene. I guarantee you, that idea is on the "NO!" side of a whiteboard somewhere in some disappointed game designers' office over at Kaos
After the first 15 minutes, it's all downhill from there. If they were trying to make a serious point to evoke emotion and set a dramatic backdrop with the 'hometown holocaust' vibe, they overshadowed the absolute hell out of it with blatant in-game advertising from today's current advertising products. This immediately cheapens any gravitas the plot attempts to create.
If the in-your-face-advertising doesn't do it for you, the lame voice acting attached to cliched and boring dialogue, with characters straight out of a direct-to-dvd movie release should round out this crap sandwich.
It's apparent what they were trying to do, and I have to give them credit for the attempt, but the end result falls flat. These guys should be working for somebody who can come in and say to them, "that's a good effort, but what you've achieved here is shit". Then direct them in some fashion to create something better, and more polished.
It's no surprise that this game was scribed by the person who wrote Red Dawn, because it's cribbing the movie the entire time. Did he rewrite the upcoming movie remake too? I don't know. If not, maybe he was pissed off about that, and this was his answer. Long story short, they have a lot in common.
The game commits a grave number of unforgivable sins for a 2011 banner release that have no excuse in this day and age, just a few might be:
Dying directly after or during a cutscene. I don't think I've ever played a game where I came out of a scripted cutscene and died immediately before I could even resume control of the character. That happened here a few times. Welcome to 'replay that huge action sequence' againsville.
"Hello, scripted in game cutscene, oh hello Mr.Grenade, where did you come from? Why yes I did want to play that long ass protect-the-convoy level segment again, thank you."
NPC characters that lead you to your surpise death "Hey Jacobs come take a look at this-NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING WE'RE SPOTTED!" -dead-
If an NPC asks you to look at something in this game, your response should be, "NO. I'm good over here, behind this large concrete barrier, thanks. Assholes."
Grenade throwing looks like a shovel pass. When you Knife someone, you're Jet Li in his early 20's, and it makes a loud sound like punching a bag of quarters. Somebody tell the devs it's ok to pay the animators for a few more milliseconds of seeing some dudes' arm
PROTIP: When you jump off the roof of the mall, just run to the truck. Don't shoot anybody, just sprint. You sprint with the capability of a 300 pound man with one asthmatic lung in this game. There are two sections where you have to chase something while sprinting to achieve an objective. This will likely annoy you: and it should
PROTIPb: If you get caught out in the open by a sentry turret, just stand there and die. You aren't getting out of it (see the above). Take it like a man, and hide better next time. The lens flare means "it can see you" cuz' lord knows you can't really tell any other way.
Weapons: The M4 shoots nails. The ACR sounds like a vulcan canon. The M16 is a single shot weapon. Also, none of them use the same ammunition. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFU-(head explodes)
Only C4 can blow up concrete: Bunker Busters and Hellfire missiles are incapable of destroying large spans of concrete suspended over water. And the Golden Gate Bridge is made of unobtanium or some such shit because, well. YOU'LL SEE
If we live in a world where I can't blow up a Fuel Tanker Truck with multiple salvos from Helicopter mounted rocket pods then this isn't a world I want to live in anymore
I'd love to hear some other opinions on this. I had so much to bitch about I've forgotten a bunch of it by the end here. I'm sure someone can remind me.
This is a huge long bitch thread, yes, but I just beat the game in 4 hours and immediately put it back in the Gamefly envelope. Got it today, it goes back tomorrow. I almost quit playing it halfway through the first level, but I pushed on, just so I could crap all over it to anyone who would listen.
TL;DR version - I hated it, a LOT.
I can't comment on the multiplayer, so I'll relegate my comments to single player only on the Xbox 360
I haven't completed a less enjoyable game in some time. From the moment the game begins, and attempts to paint a grim picture of an occupying force performing atrocities in our homeland by using shock, gore, and over-dramatic heart wrenching scenes of violence, it's revealed its hand. The only thing this game was lacking in the tour-de-horrible down Main Street at the beginning, was a 'drop-off-your-dog, because we're going to eat it in front of you' scene. I guarantee you, that idea is on the "NO!" side of a whiteboard somewhere in some disappointed game designers' office over at Kaos
After the first 15 minutes, it's all downhill from there. If they were trying to make a serious point to evoke emotion and set a dramatic backdrop with the 'hometown holocaust' vibe, they overshadowed the absolute hell out of it with blatant in-game advertising from today's current advertising products. This immediately cheapens any gravitas the plot attempts to create.
If the in-your-face-advertising doesn't do it for you, the lame voice acting attached to cliched and boring dialogue, with characters straight out of a direct-to-dvd movie release should round out this crap sandwich.
It's apparent what they were trying to do, and I have to give them credit for the attempt, but the end result falls flat. These guys should be working for somebody who can come in and say to them, "that's a good effort, but what you've achieved here is shit". Then direct them in some fashion to create something better, and more polished.
It's no surprise that this game was scribed by the person who wrote Red Dawn, because it's cribbing the movie the entire time. Did he rewrite the upcoming movie remake too? I don't know. If not, maybe he was pissed off about that, and this was his answer. Long story short, they have a lot in common.
The game commits a grave number of unforgivable sins for a 2011 banner release that have no excuse in this day and age, just a few might be:
- Unlimited enemy spawns - there, along with "I just shot that RPG guy and 10 seconds later another one magically appeared in his place to BF my 'protect this vehicle' objective". "Popped up behind a box that I just walked behind guy" makes an appearance in the big box store level too! You'll love him.
- Floaty aiming, clunky stick-to-the scenery movement, and a weird hovery momentum-free jump that seems to have no weight and an odd hang-time. We've got that in spades here.
- Poor checkpoint placement, resulting in repeated viewings of unskippable dialogue scenes that occur right before action set-pieces that are sure to guarantee a death or two. This bugs the everloving fuck out of me, and I wish that there was a bible all game devs would adhere to for things like this.
Dying directly after or during a cutscene. I don't think I've ever played a game where I came out of a scripted cutscene and died immediately before I could even resume control of the character. That happened here a few times. Welcome to 'replay that huge action sequence' againsville.
"Hello, scripted in game cutscene, oh hello Mr.Grenade, where did you come from? Why yes I did want to play that long ass protect-the-convoy level segment again, thank you."
NPC characters that lead you to your surpise death "Hey Jacobs come take a look at this-NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING WE'RE SPOTTED!" -dead-
If an NPC asks you to look at something in this game, your response should be, "NO. I'm good over here, behind this large concrete barrier, thanks. Assholes."
Grenade throwing looks like a shovel pass. When you Knife someone, you're Jet Li in his early 20's, and it makes a loud sound like punching a bag of quarters. Somebody tell the devs it's ok to pay the animators for a few more milliseconds of seeing some dudes' arm
PROTIP: When you jump off the roof of the mall, just run to the truck. Don't shoot anybody, just sprint. You sprint with the capability of a 300 pound man with one asthmatic lung in this game. There are two sections where you have to chase something while sprinting to achieve an objective. This will likely annoy you: and it should
PROTIPb: If you get caught out in the open by a sentry turret, just stand there and die. You aren't getting out of it (see the above). Take it like a man, and hide better next time. The lens flare means "it can see you" cuz' lord knows you can't really tell any other way.
Weapons: The M4 shoots nails. The ACR sounds like a vulcan canon. The M16 is a single shot weapon. Also, none of them use the same ammunition. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFU-(head explodes)
Only C4 can blow up concrete: Bunker Busters and Hellfire missiles are incapable of destroying large spans of concrete suspended over water. And the Golden Gate Bridge is made of unobtanium or some such shit because, well. YOU'LL SEE
If we live in a world where I can't blow up a Fuel Tanker Truck with multiple salvos from Helicopter mounted rocket pods then this isn't a world I want to live in anymore
I'd love to hear some other opinions on this. I had so much to bitch about I've forgotten a bunch of it by the end here. I'm sure someone can remind me.
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