A borderline masterpiece in using simple controller interactions and mechanics to make you feel like you're performing great things, with a lovely visual style, brilliant soundtrack and a story that ramps up the stakes, as you go from tricking some drunkards out of a few coins to literally putting your life on the line. When you pull off a complicated series of deceptions to win a hand of cards and get yourself out of a particularly sticky situation, its absolutely thrilling. When you're in the middle of shuffling the deck, knowing you're up to no good, you can FEEL the eyes of the other players on you.

This is the kind of thing only videogames can do and it should be rightly celebrated.

Claire's story is pretty crappy and sherry is definitely bottom tier in the zombie apocalypse child follower list. Maybe I guess you're never really supposed to take the story serious cause its supposed to be a 1980s action horror movie, bad acting and all, But man, mr x chasing u has to be my fav aspect of this game, its seriously awesome. Makes it a lot more tense despite the cutscenes being so cheesy. Combine that with hardcore mode no autosaves and ink ribbons required? NOW im scared. I dont get scared no matter how much blood and guts you throw at me but if you threaten me with lost progress it's gonna be shit shit pants city reaaal soon. The boss battles kind of suck but this game is atmospheric, fun, replayable, and there's a lot of fun mods too. I just wish they did more to make the police station feel like one place that you and the other character is exploring at the same time. Like finding an object as leon on my b run knowing that i took that as claire on my a run is kinda lame. But whatevs. The graphics are really nice too i forgot to say that. But yea despite the flaws this is a really really fun tense game just make sure u play Leon a cus his run is better IMO even though they're pretty similar... peace out

look you can give me all these fancy ass magic powers and special grenades that turn anything with a pH value of 9 or above into feathers if u use it on thursday, but if you give me a shotgun and ammo for that shotgun i will use that and nothing else. But this was cool and I enjoyed how u can do whatever even leaving. Ya U can just leave. THats my canon ending bc thats what i would do in this situation. anyways it was pretty sick. Also loved the semi survival stuff. Flying super fast into something and actually getting a concussion??? fucking awesome. what other game lets you get a concussion? i tried to search for lists of games that let you get a concussion but unfortunately I was unable to find what I was looking for. Its a bit more simple than something like deus ex 1 but it feels like deus ex more than deus ex HR so thats got 2 say something.. CYA

Like a mix between Max Payne and Hitman Blood Money, with a little sprinkle of the PS1 spider-man game. Max Payne's inspiration is the most obvious: shoot dodging in new york as a vigilante just goin and killing bad guys. Blood money is the ingredient with the apartment, upgrades, weapons, hit list, and stuff like human shielding and flashy accident kills. And the final perfect ingredient is the spider-man ps1. That game was a cool game where other characters crossed over willy nilly and it felt like a comic book. Frank narrates and it's written in yellow comic narration bubbles, with some familiar faces visiting you on your journey. It feels like a part of the marvel universe but not to the point where the world feels small.

These are all coincidences, right? totally? WRONG! Max Payne narration is in this game. You can dual-wield ingrams. Coincidence? at this point, if you're calling coincidence you're either a dumbass, a stupid person, or both. Hitman blood money choir is in this game's soundtrack. Not only that, you pop out of a casket with a machine gun killing all the funeralgoers. Coincidence again? Absolutely not!

And there's a secret other inspiration I never told you about. What if I described to you.. you airdrop into a jungle filled with soviets trying to shoot a nuclear weapon guarded by a tough tall Russian man with blond hair who gets set on fire and continues to chase you and you escape the place on a plane with your newfound buddy? You'd say that's obviously metal gear solid 3 snake eater. You'd be right, but you'd also be right if you said it was one level of the punisher.

So why am I giving this game such a high score if it just copies off the best games ever? That's easy: number 1, it rules. It's awesome. number 2: It came out before blood money. And if there's even a one percent chance that this game in any way influenced or inspired the greatest videogame ever made then we need to treat this game as royalty.

Now the games own merits: The interrogation system is genuinely fantastic and im shocked how new superhero games especially batman have not used the system. I obviously used the fan patch that restored the extremely gory and violent torture minigames and it was great. The only problem about it is you lose points for killing a guy in the torture minigame. Probably put in there to penalize you for failing it and going too far. But even if you get the information out of him and THEN kill him in the torture minigame it still loses points. But if you pull him back into shield and quick kill him you get points. It's kind of a sucky oversight.

The level variation is extremely awesome. Crackhouses, chop shops, zoos, mgs3 jungles, towers, jails, you name it. But the last 2 or 3 levels get kinda ridiculous with the number of armored enemies they throw at u. Those guys reward a slow playstyle with the rifle where you go for headshots and it's not really fun.

Anyways it's super awesome and a great surprise. And make sure to download the uncensored patch otherwise what's the god dam point?