Painfully mid.
This game shows a lot of promise but just, not very great execution.
There are parts of this game I did enjoy... but not much.
so let's walk through it.
Starting with the story. Damn this game's story is dogshit lol.
Each "desk" in the game has it's on little contained story with pieces of overarching story until it becomes entirely based around that story. The short stories I didn't mind, in fact I really enjoyed the Black Dahlia stuff, but man that "main" story is so shit. So much stuff just happens with like no explanation, the whole Cole cheating on his wife thing? what the fuck was that? just comes out of literally nowhere, it's so stupid. I did not care for any of these characters at any point, they are all either just the worst person ever or bland as fuck. Especially Cole, goddamn least interesting Protagonist I've seen in ages.
The gameplay... is a mixed bag. I did enjoy interviewing people and gathering evidence for the first half of the game, but it just became so tedious in the back half, and they started wording questions so goddamn awkwardly that I had no idea what I was supposed to do. The combat is horrible. So is the driving.
The world is so bland, it just serves as way too big of a backdrop to each case. I just fast travelled most of the time because I couldn't be fucked to drive from point A to point B because it was so goddamn boring. At least in other games where they have fairly bland open worlds they have like, different cool cars or weapons for you to find. In this game almost everything looks exactly the goddamn same. There's no variety.
The music is fairly crap.
I will say, the motion capture tech they used for this game has aged really well. A lot of this still looks really good. Obviously there are some iffy bits because it is a old PS3 game, but it does hold up very well.
Overall... this game isn't great. I really had to force myself through the back half because it just became so boring and tedious and the story just turned to absolute shit. The most fun I had was as a Homicide detective, doing the whole Zodiac Killer shit was awesome and really fun. The rest of the game is just bleh.
If you're gonna play this, just make sure to stop playing once you've been promoted from Homicide, it's just not worth it.
And look, I know there's a real big, bad history with this game's development and Team Bondi that resulted in this game lacking so much. But looking at it as it is? It's incredibly mid.
This game shows a lot of promise but just, not very great execution.
There are parts of this game I did enjoy... but not much.
so let's walk through it.
Starting with the story. Damn this game's story is dogshit lol.
Each "desk" in the game has it's on little contained story with pieces of overarching story until it becomes entirely based around that story. The short stories I didn't mind, in fact I really enjoyed the Black Dahlia stuff, but man that "main" story is so shit. So much stuff just happens with like no explanation, the whole Cole cheating on his wife thing? what the fuck was that? just comes out of literally nowhere, it's so stupid. I did not care for any of these characters at any point, they are all either just the worst person ever or bland as fuck. Especially Cole, goddamn least interesting Protagonist I've seen in ages.
The gameplay... is a mixed bag. I did enjoy interviewing people and gathering evidence for the first half of the game, but it just became so tedious in the back half, and they started wording questions so goddamn awkwardly that I had no idea what I was supposed to do. The combat is horrible. So is the driving.
The world is so bland, it just serves as way too big of a backdrop to each case. I just fast travelled most of the time because I couldn't be fucked to drive from point A to point B because it was so goddamn boring. At least in other games where they have fairly bland open worlds they have like, different cool cars or weapons for you to find. In this game almost everything looks exactly the goddamn same. There's no variety.
The music is fairly crap.
I will say, the motion capture tech they used for this game has aged really well. A lot of this still looks really good. Obviously there are some iffy bits because it is a old PS3 game, but it does hold up very well.
Overall... this game isn't great. I really had to force myself through the back half because it just became so boring and tedious and the story just turned to absolute shit. The most fun I had was as a Homicide detective, doing the whole Zodiac Killer shit was awesome and really fun. The rest of the game is just bleh.
If you're gonna play this, just make sure to stop playing once you've been promoted from Homicide, it's just not worth it.
And look, I know there's a real big, bad history with this game's development and Team Bondi that resulted in this game lacking so much. But looking at it as it is? It's incredibly mid.
jeanlePoint
1 year ago