Posted on: December 17, 2020
Mr. Beef
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Inferior to The New Order
The New Order is probably my favorite single-player FPS of all time. They did something really incredible with the writing, music, and character/world development that really makes it an all time classic. This sequel, on the other hand, is not very good. The only thing that this sequel does better is the shooting. The shooting is great. Everything else is a step back from its predecessor. Levels are poorly signposted so it's easy to get lost. Stealth is given as an option but you're often railroaded into firefights anyway. A lot of really interesting characters are introduced in slick cutscenes and then never utilized. Familiar characters from the previous game are given very flimsy story arcs, and just dropped (looking at you, Fergus). The tone is all over the place, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the plot and writing really doesn't come through to support it well. The pacing is all over the place, and the villain quite simply sucks compared to The New Order. Somehow the final boss was less interesting than the other combat setpieces littered throughout the campaign; I didn't even realize it was a final boss until the credits rolled. They did such a terrible job with the character development, emotional beats, and plotting I was amazed to find out it's the same writing team as The New Order. I don't understand how the same writers can throw away all the great stuff they built up over their last outing and replace it with...whatever this is. This game suffers from a lot of the same problems Bioshock Infinite does. There's a lot of slick presentation and interesting themes on display, but if you make any effort to think carefully about anything, it just comes apart. "But it's a shooter!" you may think, "cut it some slack." That's fine. But it still doesn't change the fact that they did better in the past, and failed to build on what made that game a classic.
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