I cant believe they made the game more tedious than the original which was already a bit too tedious. Everything takes too long for no good reason (animations, puzzles, virtual reality, even opening doors is more complicated than in the original...) and it has the exact same maze-like corridor map which is just stupid and makes the remake completely pointless. Casual players should get SS1 Enhanced Edition instead. This is made just for the hardcore fans of the first game.
Q2 improved immensly over its predecessor. The weapons look killer (unlike in Q1), enemies and locations are way more diverse and interesting and it has more colours and sometimes it looks really beautiful. Level design is complex with a lots of backtracking but you somehow always find the right way very quickly even thanks to monsters spawns that lead you in the right direction. It also has some kind of story and a cool badass factor. The first Quake is a creepy survivor horror FPS while Q2 is more action like and it feels like you have it under control. Mission packs are as usually sub-par but the main game is amazing.
Beautiful stylish graphics and amazing dark atmosphere but it is so incredibly tedious because of some really bad design decisions that add up and make it a micromanaging chore of many units especially in the later stages of the maps.
You can buy guns anywhere but you can't buy ammo... Who had such an "amazing" idea? You should have too much ammo and not too little. I bought the game just to relax and shoot stuff and not to spend all my time looking for ammo boxes. That is really an odd design choice for an action game where basically everything is supposed to be destructed.
You control Wallace (inventor) and Gromit (his dog). Gromit is always solving Wallaces lapses which is just very funny. He can't talk but he underestands everything and is way more reasonable than Wallace. There are four episodes. It starts with "Fright of the Bumblebees". It is an ok introduction, followed by "The Last Resort" which is probably the best episode. "Muzzled" is also top notch and right behind it. I loved both. "The Bogeyman" is by far the hardest one and the story is not as good. I think it is also the weakest of them mainly because of that. It might be very frustrating. I had to watch a walktrough for that episode. I think this game shouldn't be hard. It should be just easy and fun. Overall I enjoyed the game, pitty there are only 4 episodes. If you like dogs get this adventure and you will have a lot of fun.
It is ok, locations are beautiful, graphics is great, the story is fun but... it is so repetitive. You enter an arena, get swarmed by plenty of enemies and that is it. The weapons are underpowered so you will use only your sword and that only add to the feeling of doing the exact same thing all over again. The upgrades are really the only thing that makes it little more interesting. If you played first few levels you played them all. I would recommend it only to someone who can play the same thing over and over again and doesnt get bored by it.
For a player who doesnt like dungeons it will be incredibly repetitive and boring becaue everything looks the same and it has a generic story. Plus it might be really unfairly difficult. A casual player of this genre (like me) will be much better off with Nox which is more fun to play, has more locations and much better and smoother controls.
This is another point and click adventure that has a lot of things going for it (style, writing, voice acting, music, atmosphere...) but is so heavily flawed in gameplay it will often leave you frustrated. There are two main issues. Firstly, it lacks any variety in locations and there is basically just a huge hotel with the same looking areas and its surrounding. Secondly, you cant quick travel but have to walk/run all the way to your destination. It might not look that terrible on paper but both of these flaws together make the gameplay very monotone and extremely annoying if you miss some clue. You can spend hours just running in circles in search for a clue/item and when you finally find it you will possibly have to run around the whole map again, find all the NPCs and confront them with what you found. It is just tedious and the game becomes more and more boring and dull instead of becoming more and more exciting. I would recommend it only to hardcore adventure players mostly because the story is not really that interesting that it would force a casual player to overlook its big gameplay issues and finish the game. I personally had enough of it somewhere in the middle.
I played Codename 47 and Silent Assasin when the games were released and I loved them so I wanted to try Bloodmoney as it is praised as the best classic Hitman by many and....I was quite disappointed. Bloodmoney feels like a pedestrian attempt to cash on the previous success. There is nothing terrible about the game but it adds nothing new and it just repeats the same thing all over again. That alone wouldn't be bad if you had a good story and interesting ways of completing the missions but the story sucks and you will be bored by the missions because they don't offer enough originality and variety. The cinematics that had been a nice reward for completing a mission are gone and the dubbing is very limited. It is more like an mission pack of Hitman 2 Silent Assasin with improved graphics and not a new fully developed game. It is not exciting and it is not fun if you had played the first two games. I liked only the music but that is too little to rate this part any higher than 2/5. You can try it but I would recommend to get Alekhine's Gun or The Moment of Truth instead of Bloodmoney. They are at least fully realized games with their own original storylines. If you dont know Hitman then get the first two games (you can get Hitman Contracts instead of Codename 47) which are classics and despite having some issues are way more satisfying to play than Bloodmoney.
It looks like the first Flatout but it is actually an arcade. It has very simplified controls compared to the Flaout 1 that reminded me of the 90's era arcade racers like Screamer, first NFS games, etc. Unfortunately the tracks are rather mediocre and many of them look rather similar to each other. Overall Flatout 2 is just a generic and not so interesting racing game. It is just not that much fun to control the car. I had much more fun with Flatout 1 on pro difficulty.
