The akward platforming and the extreme linearity of each level broke me mentally. I thought i knew something about stealth games, i mean ive played thief and all the deus ex games, recently ive also played intravenous each i liked quite a bit. i thought i was prepared for this game but i was wrong. The maps are so designed in such tight, linear fashion that i often found myself wondering what was i really supposed to do and really the only thing you need to know to beat this game is the right moment to strike. This is more of a game that tests how pacient you are as oppose to how smart you are. You know in pretty much all the other games that i mentioned the maps are really complex in terms of their design. You need to be vegilant and look for possible path ways that can lead you to where you're supposed to go and obviously you also need be smart when it comes to utilising your tools. None of that existes in this game. You sit in dark corner, shot a couple of camaras/lights out maybe toss around an object to grab the enemies attention and you try to grab them from behind, that's the whole game. It's nauseatingly repatitive and mindless, again you just need to know the right time of when you're supposed to engage. And for a stealth game, i found that brute forcing your way with combat to be quite efficient mostly because the a.i is just stupid and when you're not forced to not be lethal it's just better to shot your way through. It may not be the most satisfying shooting experince but it's way less furstrating. There's also a fair bit of trial and error in this game which for game that severely underdelivers on the stealth aspect just made my brain melt to the point i had it running down my nose and ears. Honestly, i don't understand what made this game popular. Sam fishing might be a cool character but i reckon that's about the only genuinely possitive aspect i can say that this thing has.
The game suffers of huge frame drops when you open your stats book, it gets slighty better the lower the resultion yet the frame dip is still noticeable. As far as I'm concern there are no fixes for this issue and there probably won't be one.
Basically the game hard crashes after a certain amount of time playing it. Looked up ways that i could have gotten this fixed but none of those work. Kinda of a shame because i sort of was enjoying the game. Its a decent game albeit nothing super extraordinary. You can still complete the game by saving manually but youll have to put yourself against all the hard crashes that happen all the time.
