SiN Gold

This comes from a time when developers started to want to inject story into their FPS's. In the case of Sin, the narrative comes at the expense of fun game play. Weapons feel horrible, movement is sluggish, and there are some horribly designed water levels that will make you want to punch your monitor. All that, and in the end, I couldn't care less about plight Blade and J.C.

Awesome, fun game. Plenty of cheesy one liners. The best graphics in the world can't make a game as cool as this!

Hackable computers, rats that bite you, nice cut scenes... It sure was a game that attempted to create an atmosphere. A true Good Old Game.

I bought this game a long time ago on CD but only recently started playing it. It's quite a mess really. Lots of bugs and bad design. You often die suddenly and with no idea how it happened. You can get stuck in doors. Sometimes you can't open doors because an enemy is behind it. Sometimes you get stuck in a hole, for example, and you have no choice but to load a saved game. Some areas are too dark and it's not obvious enough where you have to go or what you have to next. It could have been good. I like the characters and the story. I think it deserves a remake one day if it can be done well.

On the recommendation of a buddy, I’ve been playing SiN. Feels a bit too close to Quake 2, and so many times I die and I have no idea what hit me. Melee enemies can hit you from so far away, and they move so fast it’s nearly impossible to avoid them. Some turrets I can destroy, others I can’t, and I can’t tell the difference without looking it up in a walkthrough. In so many sections I can’t avoid being shot, which is aggravating. I kinda liked the level where Blade becomes one of the monsters he’s fighting. Would have been cool if he could not change back to normal and had to live the rest of his life as a mutant, but alas that isn’t how it plays out. I finished it because it has an awesome soundtrack. SiN is not bad, but I don’t want to play it again. JC is kinda useless. He’s supposed to be funny, but the humor is pretty weak. I found it more frustrating than fun, but for an action shooter of the Quake 2 era, it’s still not bad.