XIII

Great graphics but game play is a little boring. As for the story - LOW SPOILER - it ends with cliffhanger. There was no sequel so you have to read comic book to know what happened to XIII.

It has aged terribly bad, but this game is 5 years younger than the first Half-life, so no excuses with age only. The graphics are nothing to be sold nowadays, Im sure it was amazing in 2003, but gameplay and level design are terrible. You spend half the first levels of ""stealth"" in the game running and hitting people with chairs ¡]? If you want amazing gameplay with colorful comic aesthetic, and an amazing story, you should get "Outlaws" from Lucas Arts, which is also half a decade older than this one, and still amazing.

A missing quicksave option is always high risk. Combine that with unfair level desig and clumsi controls,, and you have your failure.

Deserves your time.

The comic book styling of the graphics is definitely cool, but the game itself is mostly boring and frustrating. Most of the time, this "action" game will have you sneaking around, repetitively sniping guards with your crossbow and then slowly hiding their bodies. It's so dull. You can't even load a quick save to try again immediately if you're spotted or something, because loading a save will always bring you to the beginning of a level. The weapon variety is boring, you'll have used almost all of them before you're halfway through the game. Using items like medkits, or your grappling hook, is inconvenient and just feels slow as you cycle through them and click on the "Use" key. The story is a confusing mess. None of the character designs really stand out, and their names are all generic, plus some of them are also just numbers instead of names, or both... whatever. There are intermittent cut scenes, sometimes flashbacks, that all serve to muddy things up even more. I have no idea what even really happened in this game. There are documents you can find that are related to the overall conspiracy, but they are accessed on the main menu screen and you can't read them in game. Great design decision. There are like five or six enemy models in the whole game. It's not even fun to fight them because you can't actually use most of your weapons on them, most of the time, because for some reason 90% of the game is stealth based. It IS satisfying to get head shots with the crossbow, just not for the entire game. I can't recommend this game at all, don't spend any amount of money on it, it isn't worth it. You can see the graphics on a Let's Play video, that's really all this game has going for it.