Playing base game with a Demolitionist (no 2nd class). My biggest issue with this game is simply navigating. Too many barriers and dead ends. Makes for a lot of back-tracking, My 2nd biggest issue is requirements for equipment. My level 41 Demolitionist is wearing equipment average level 29. Maybe it's just this class? (have not played any other class). You can deal (or be dealt) 10 types of damage. Which means you need 10 resistances (all shown in your character screen). Yeah, good luck with that. Plus there are at least 3 other resistances not shown. WTH? I cannot made any sense of how much damage I am doing with weapons or skills. The quest list (resolved or not) are shown in the codex window, but not in any order that makes sense. The game forces side quests on you, without even asking. Sometimes, even just picking up an item can trigger a side quest. There are a lot of quest items that I don't even know what they are for. So I have to lug all these items around with me. Why can't I put them in stash and the game access it when needed? But it's not all bad. It IS fun (mostly). Could have been a lot better though. Could have been an all-time-great. As is, it's just OK.
If you like first person shooters, this is a must have. I love the old west setting, It's somewhat of a historical game too (and I love history), although the details may or may not be accurate. Who cares? Fight alongside with, and later against, some of the most infamous outlaws of the old west. The graphics are really good considering it's age, and the control setup makes the game easy to play.. The skills are, for the most part, very good. The Nuggets of Truth give you an insight to historical people and places. The way the story is presented is unique and very cool. It is told by a retired bounty hunter, and you are playing out his younger years. There are three modes of play ... Story (aka the campaign), Arcade, and Dueling (haven't played the latter two yet). Two awesome features are Concentration (which gives you extra time to aim more precisely) and Sense of Death (which slows down time to almost a stop so you can dodge an otherwise fatal bullet). If you die (and you will), you can just continue from there. You can also load the last checkpoint, or restart the current mission from the beginning. Sometimes, enemies are hard to spot, but if you take a hit, the marks on the screen tell you at least the direction the shot came from. The devs really put a lot of thought into this game. Although I have not finished the game yet, I have encountered no bugs, no lockups, no problems. Just loads of fun.
Haven't gotten too far into the game, because I just couldn't keep at it. Clunky controls. You can't even use the middle mouse button or the wheel. And there is no hot key to fire your weapon (what if I didn't want to use the left mouse button?). The first guy you have to kill, you have to dump the body behind a wagon to "hide it". Nevermind that you have to walk through a crowd of people to do so. And then, I couldn't figure out how to drop the body (again, no hot key). The pathing AI is horrible (getting stuck on anything in their path). About the only thing good I can say about this game, is the graphics are pretty darn good, considering it's age.
