Played the PS2 version but nobody reads that page so I'm reviewing it here.
I loved this game a lot. At first I thought I wasn't going to enjoy it with how rough Liberty Island was (nearly got filtered lol oops) but when I got to UNATCO and spent 95% of the time fucking around, reading random books and newspapers about the state of the world, I really fell in love with it. Sci-fi that's just futuristic/biological word vomit is the most interesting type of sci-fi to me. I enjoyed being handsomely rewarded even if I went a no-kill route one level or slaughtered everybody in my wake the next. I didn't feel pressured to play any specific way and that's what made it so satisfying. Of course, I saved hostages when I could and actively tried not to kill civilians when in the middle of a (considerably laggy) firefight. I wasn't THAT horrible of a person. Oh yeah, and the soundtrack is incredible.
One of my gripes with it, though, was how boss fights weren't really bossfights. The GEP gun basically steamrolls every single fight save for Simons who eats two missiles before exploding into meat, but even then every fight lasts two seconds if you just whip out the GEP gun. Even though Walton was hovering over your shoulder and bragging about his augs the entire game, I blew him to bits with two rockets, so the fights being so mechanically simple was disappointing. Another criticism I had was how Gunther was written. He's meant to be viewed as a tragic character due to the circumstances of his outdated augmentations, his usefulness to UNATCO, and self-esteem issues stemming from that, but the writers make him out to be a bumbling dumbass instead. I also wasn't a huge fan of how Paul just disappears from the game after Hong Kong, permanently glued to his chair, but I guess it makes sense from a branching narrative/development standpoint if he dies in New York.
JC is a new favorite character of mine. He definitely reads as autistic. Simons was a cool villain and his coat was even cooler though he walks like he's severely constipated. Anyway, this game was fun as hell and it truly does break my heart that this series is more or less dead in the water. I'm sick to death of remakes but I'm not gonna lie and say I wouldn't enjoy a potential remake of this game. Not sure if I want to play the sequel though as apparently the writing takes a complete nosedive and it shits itself even on the platforms it was made for. Everyone also looks 10x fuglier in Invisible War than they do in this game which is a feat in itself, since most of them look like cats with their faces pulled back.
I loved this game a lot. At first I thought I wasn't going to enjoy it with how rough Liberty Island was (nearly got filtered lol oops) but when I got to UNATCO and spent 95% of the time fucking around, reading random books and newspapers about the state of the world, I really fell in love with it. Sci-fi that's just futuristic/biological word vomit is the most interesting type of sci-fi to me. I enjoyed being handsomely rewarded even if I went a no-kill route one level or slaughtered everybody in my wake the next. I didn't feel pressured to play any specific way and that's what made it so satisfying. Of course, I saved hostages when I could and actively tried not to kill civilians when in the middle of a (considerably laggy) firefight. I wasn't THAT horrible of a person. Oh yeah, and the soundtrack is incredible.
One of my gripes with it, though, was how boss fights weren't really bossfights. The GEP gun basically steamrolls every single fight save for Simons who eats two missiles before exploding into meat, but even then every fight lasts two seconds if you just whip out the GEP gun. Even though Walton was hovering over your shoulder and bragging about his augs the entire game, I blew him to bits with two rockets, so the fights being so mechanically simple was disappointing. Another criticism I had was how Gunther was written. He's meant to be viewed as a tragic character due to the circumstances of his outdated augmentations, his usefulness to UNATCO, and self-esteem issues stemming from that, but the writers make him out to be a bumbling dumbass instead. I also wasn't a huge fan of how Paul just disappears from the game after Hong Kong, permanently glued to his chair, but I guess it makes sense from a branching narrative/development standpoint if he dies in New York.
JC is a new favorite character of mine. He definitely reads as autistic. Simons was a cool villain and his coat was even cooler though he walks like he's severely constipated. Anyway, this game was fun as hell and it truly does break my heart that this series is more or less dead in the water. I'm sick to death of remakes but I'm not gonna lie and say I wouldn't enjoy a potential remake of this game. Not sure if I want to play the sequel though as apparently the writing takes a complete nosedive and it shits itself even on the platforms it was made for. Everyone also looks 10x fuglier in Invisible War than they do in this game which is a feat in itself, since most of them look like cats with their faces pulled back.