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A spy game that has more to it than simply shooting people and sneaking around buildings, succeeding in knowing who’s your ally and who’s an enemy is even more vital than the aforementioned gameplay aspects, and serve to largely influence what happens in the plot as they help in various different ways, be it offering to spike the cocaine of a drug lord so when you have a boss fight with him you completely deny his second phase and he gets knocked out from the spiked coke, pulling the veil away from major plot twists before it’s too late and they bite you in the ass, or unveiling information you can use to your advantage. Speaking of that, information is truly key in this game as you can use whatever character secrets you acquired to influence, blackmail, taunt characters out of hiding and into their death and so on, this game is quite open in how it can be approached as I’m sure many of you have heard before and is easily its strongest feat, even the story missions can be played in different orders which alters some things that happens in them.
As for the shooting and sneaking itself, It is honestly quite over-hated, it’s essentially a more polished up version of Deus Ex in terms of how the RPG aspects intertwine with the shooting aspects but with good enemy feedback, I love the way they react to your bullets, sometimes they stumble over and fall, other times they panic and spray-fire all over the place, it does it’s job well. As for the accuracy, simply focus your points into one or two weapons (preferably pistol as its the best weapon in the game, AR is great too) and don’t spam-fire, wait for the reticle to recover from recoil and you’re good to go, although its best to focus the shots when it comes to pistol, you can fire faster and more accurately with AR, and I recommend having both on you as they suit different needs, you absolutely should stealth some missions and even go through them non-lethally since not every enemy you face can be killed without consequences (civilians, regular cops and other American agents for example). This is overall quite an immersive experience and I heavily recommend it to RPG or Espionage fans.
As for the shooting and sneaking itself, It is honestly quite over-hated, it’s essentially a more polished up version of Deus Ex in terms of how the RPG aspects intertwine with the shooting aspects but with good enemy feedback, I love the way they react to your bullets, sometimes they stumble over and fall, other times they panic and spray-fire all over the place, it does it’s job well. As for the accuracy, simply focus your points into one or two weapons (preferably pistol as its the best weapon in the game, AR is great too) and don’t spam-fire, wait for the reticle to recover from recoil and you’re good to go, although its best to focus the shots when it comes to pistol, you can fire faster and more accurately with AR, and I recommend having both on you as they suit different needs, you absolutely should stealth some missions and even go through them non-lethally since not every enemy you face can be killed without consequences (civilians, regular cops and other American agents for example). This is overall quite an immersive experience and I heavily recommend it to RPG or Espionage fans.
Ironic that a game who’s plot is about breaking your programming and going against what would be expected of you ends up with a reputation that takes what it presents at face value and twists what it actually is so it could fit the mold of what people expect 7th gen games to be, and this game faces no critical re-evaluation to this day, simply look at that disgrace of a description, in-fact there’s only one other person who appreciates it for what it is and he is the one who recommended this to me in the first place, it seems everyone else is still stuck up on taking the first 45 minutes of this game as gospel for representing everything else it has, failing to recognize that the game acknowledges the doubts a person could have about sci-fi military shooters of that gen because it begins with a section that can’t be anything other than a parody to GoW. Shed away all of that and you have a fantastic shooter underneath with a heartfelt sci-fi story, the variety of weapons on display here are nice and fit whatever playstyle you’d want to go for, there’s also the fact that you can combo with your partner to unleash some devastating attacks, it all flows into one, fluid gameplay system.
TL;DR, it’s not a fucking GoW clone or a cover shooter.
TL;DR, it’s not a fucking GoW clone or a cover shooter.
Finished + DLC
I can’t even say much besides that this is a fantastic experience and a must-play for any actionhead
I can’t even say much besides that this is a fantastic experience and a must-play for any actionhead