Not going to put too much effort into this review. Despite its about 5 hour campaign this slog exhausted me.
This game doesn’t really know what it wants to be. It’s set up to be a stealthy and methodical cover shooter using your silenced weapon, melee takedown and holograms to distract enemies. The problem is none of this comes together because the stealth is totally half-baked. Enemy sight lines are totally inconsistent and it becomes frustrating guessing if they’ll see you. There’s also not much incentive to play stealthy since it’s slow, janky and boring and it’s much easier to run and gun through each mission.
The problem then becomes run and gunning sucks too because every animation is sooo slow and if you accidentally cycle to switch to the incorrect weapon you have to sit through the laughably slow animation with no way to cancel. The guns are pretty standard and the shooting is fine but the game clearly doesnt want you to play fast paced. The grenade throwing animation is also painfully slow and jank. Also they couldn’t update to a weapon wheel or tighten up any of these animations in a remaster??
There are some good ideas with a turret you can put down to distract foes so you can flank but the AI is mostly retarded (they will see their comrade 2 feet in front of them get sniped and not react or won’t run away from grenades.)
The gameplay just feels like it’s being pulled in two directions with neither of them being fully developed which leaves the player in a weird middle ground that’s just mind numbing and unfun. Combine that with several extended horrible turret sections and the game just really doesn’t excel at anything.
The last thing I’ll touch on is the crafting which is broken. You get salvage from every enemy killed and the rest are marked on your mini map so you end up with an excessive amount to craft basically infinite medpacks and ammo so you can cheese your way through the game soaking up tons of damage. Unfortunately this is how I played the last couple hours because trying to play slow and methodically just didn’t work and was boring me to death.
I wanted to like this game and the goofy comic book adaptation has some charm but sadly I can’t recommend this unless you’re super curious or a fan of the comics. It’s just barely passable.
4/10
This game doesn’t really know what it wants to be. It’s set up to be a stealthy and methodical cover shooter using your silenced weapon, melee takedown and holograms to distract enemies. The problem is none of this comes together because the stealth is totally half-baked. Enemy sight lines are totally inconsistent and it becomes frustrating guessing if they’ll see you. There’s also not much incentive to play stealthy since it’s slow, janky and boring and it’s much easier to run and gun through each mission.
The problem then becomes run and gunning sucks too because every animation is sooo slow and if you accidentally cycle to switch to the incorrect weapon you have to sit through the laughably slow animation with no way to cancel. The guns are pretty standard and the shooting is fine but the game clearly doesnt want you to play fast paced. The grenade throwing animation is also painfully slow and jank. Also they couldn’t update to a weapon wheel or tighten up any of these animations in a remaster??
There are some good ideas with a turret you can put down to distract foes so you can flank but the AI is mostly retarded (they will see their comrade 2 feet in front of them get sniped and not react or won’t run away from grenades.)
The gameplay just feels like it’s being pulled in two directions with neither of them being fully developed which leaves the player in a weird middle ground that’s just mind numbing and unfun. Combine that with several extended horrible turret sections and the game just really doesn’t excel at anything.
The last thing I’ll touch on is the crafting which is broken. You get salvage from every enemy killed and the rest are marked on your mini map so you end up with an excessive amount to craft basically infinite medpacks and ammo so you can cheese your way through the game soaking up tons of damage. Unfortunately this is how I played the last couple hours because trying to play slow and methodically just didn’t work and was boring me to death.
I wanted to like this game and the goofy comic book adaptation has some charm but sadly I can’t recommend this unless you’re super curious or a fan of the comics. It’s just barely passable.
4/10