Felt like replaying, so I did. I have a certain amount of nostalgia for this game, even if it didn't age that well. The movement system chokes and dies in small spaces, but in the open its a joy to just piss around, jumping over skyscrapers on a single leap or running up the side, the music is so forgettable I finished the game like an hour ago and don't remember a single tune, the story is pretty mediocre, the protagonist Alex Mercer is a fucking dickhead besides being boring as sin, the combat is pretty unbalanced, but its kinda fun to find things that break it, even if most enemies aren't that fun to fight. There's always an asshole soldier with a rocket launcher you didn't see, and a missile to the face staggers you, which gets pretty annoying fast and besides dodging you don't have any way to counter. The infected aren't much better, the only unit they have that actually might threaten you is the hunters, a bunch of hairless pink gorillas that do a fuckton of damage, and have an uninterruptible, unblockable and pretty damaging rush attack, and they are invencible while they do it, and they do it very frequently. Doesn't help that the game puts you in a lot of escort fucking missions in the second half of the main story. In fact I would say that no main mission is actually that fun to do. Gotta be honest, besides nostalgia this game doesn't really have that many redeemable qualities.

Reviewed on Aug 14, 2020


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