Posted on: December 12, 2020
James_Blood
Verified ownerGames: 1001 Reviews: 36
Strong worldbuilding, forgets its game
This game has impressive graphics and decent gun play, however the guns are still plentiful and far more infuriatingly the game seems to forget that it is a game. What i mean by hat is that this thing keeps offering up non-choices such as singular option or only one out of multiple choices being something that permits player to continue, it is a movie in that regard, you are not here to play but to do as you are told by the almighty developer and their leash. For something that seems to be hellbent on telling a compelling story it dose keep trying to force player to do only what writers thought of, as opposed to more game centered idea of actually having diverse choices, even at important points of game, that are both valid even if not necessarily equally helpful to story or progress. This trait is something i am exceedingly against, if you want to make a movie do bloody go and do that, here in computer games it makes things far more interesting if you actually try to allow player a gaming experience as opposed to first person perspective cinematic. On technical level the game is impressive offcourse, the graphics is pretty, and somehow manages to run at good amount of detail even on my olden computer. Some environments are downright gorgeous, especially on high detail at night and rain. Clearly great care has been given to the city itself. Gun play, as mentioned above, dose work fairly well, tho it is not anything original and somehow ends up reminding me of DeusEx 4, in fact alot of the game versatility seems to resemble that particular game. Which is a good thing for me as i did enjoy the mechanics there quite a bit. The method for slicing / hacking into things is somewhat difficult to grasp at first but once i gotten used to it worked amicably. Driving feels little disjointed (potentially due to low frame rate, which is sacrifice i made for detail and quality of visuals), first vehicle is bit unwieldy but this may change later down the line. Worthy try, poor.
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