I have finished first day missions and game feels like Postal 2. I'm not going to comment on graphics or optimization let's face it running with scissors is developer, nuff said. As we all know game is made in a way that things tend to escalate as you progress. Day 1 missions are fun and easy but one that stands out as boring as hell is sewer mission, that's single reason game gets 4 stars even in development since I don't see how this mission can be made better. So far game looks promising, there are no cops yet but civilians are well armed and you are free to explore and raise hell. I expect that all kind of animal rights/religious/SJW zealots will throw lot of hate towards this game but that is part of fun waiting for full version.
I just finished game and it feels bland. Story is interesting in the first few hours of game but as you progress you will find that story just run around in circles eg. every character says basically same vague things about endless war. Character level up is just awful and uninteresting, companion related quests are boring and short. Combat system is strange and lot of quests are just walking from point A to point B and back. At the end of game you will face mass effect kind of ending just choose from several options it doesn't matter what you did prior to that. But the absolute worst thing are game breaking bugs that occur even after all this time since the game was released. I played game for the first time right after release and didn't finish it because of some bug with the ring and guess what after few years there are still bugs with Anechoic Lazaret, dead npc come to life after sleep, battle freeze etc. There are some good things, you can solve quests in number of different ways including violent and non violent solutions, cyphers are fun to use and can help you in difficult situations, some quests are very interesting and merecasters can give you interesting perspective on things. Overall this game isn't RPG per se but feels more like virtual novel adventure. If you seek cRPG experience similar to Baldur's gate you should give this game a pass.If you think this game is good as planscape:torment you will be disappointed. If you like to read a lot, want to immerse into world and just want to see where the story goes and don't want to bother with complexity with anything this is a game for you and you will like it. Finally for god's sake use save often or bugs will get you!
After this one every other game in the series will leave bitter taste in your mouth. It has great level design, no over-scripted nonsense that plague modern hitman games, unforgettable targets and great sound track. Truly must have for any hitman fan.
Game is too short and don't have replay value. It's very well scripted but doesn't have random events that would make you tense about loosing game. Laws look good on paper but their effects are questionable and you can't change them, it's like ten commandments set in stone. Game span is about 6 weeks and that means children will never grow up, you can't school new engineers etc. I finished scenarios in one afternoon and while playing this game I got same feeling like playing some casual time managment game.
This is the weakest game of the series so if you didn't play monkey island games please don't start with this one. It's only 3D adventure game in lucas arts MI universe and controls are similar to Grim Fandango. The good: main portagonist with ability to be in a wong place at a wrong time, monkey island feeling, arrrrrr pirates, funny characters, inasne logic to solving puzzles, great music. The bad: there are couple of puzzles that are completly illogical and will spoil overall experiance, monkey combat can be teadius at times and it's not as fun as insult swordfighting, sound effects during monkey combat can drive you crazy eek,aak etc.
