Vinchenzo said:
@jakob187: I did not appreciate the huge "BIONIC COMMANDO!!!!!!!" before I got off my Xbox.I DID NOT APPRECIATE!!!Send it to ...
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LAWL Dood, you're gonna have some FUN achievement whoring this hoe.
SO HERE'S THE UPDATE:
I'm 36% of the way through the game right now. Commando mode is NO JOKE!!! Very very tough as nails. Enemies will kill you quick and easy, so you need to utilize cover as much as you can and have some pretty good aim. Granted, it's that situation where the enemies have the same guns but they do a shitload more damage rather than just being smarter, but man...it's still tough as nails.
I wasn't very happy with the controls to start, but once I found out I could turn up the sensitivity on my right analog's X-axis, it made manuevering around much easier. I would've been thoroughly pissed if they didn't have that option and tried to force your fingers to use the D-pad for all this quick turning nonsense. Other than that, the controls seem pretty smooth once you get past the learning curve of it all. I've been swinging away like crazy, and I'm sure that if I go down to a lower difficulty, the achievements won't be too tough to get.
Most of the achievements happen to be the challenges that you complete in the game, and the more you complete, the more upgrades you'll get: faster reloading, more ammo capacity, stronger weapons. I had read Jeff's review and he said that the weapons didn't feel very powerful, but I can't say I totally agree with that. By no means do these weapons actually hit like they are supposed to (then again, I'm playing on Commando mode), but it does seem like they get the job done properly. The aiming reticle really pisses me off, though, as I wish there was just a traditional crosshair and not this big, open circle that shoots guesstimates. Precision would've made this a lesser (and decidedly easier) game, but at the same time, the aiming reticle they have here doesn't do much better.
Swinging through the air is so fucking awesome, and there's tons of it so far. One part has you swinging through the Fissure, and it's pretty fucking awesome just going from ledge to ledge swinging around.
One thing that I've had some issues with about the arm is the arm combat moves with enemies. When you are fighting against the Shield Biomechs and the Polycrafts (those are the flying things you saw in the GB Quick Look...and that's the part that I'm currently on now in the game), it can sometimes be very difficult to get that red reticle to pop up for a zip kick. It's annoying as sin, and when it fails to happen, you've got another 10 second setup usually before you get another chance...and that's IF you can get it to work again.
So yeah, the game has a few hiccups here and there (like how the majority of the game is simply swinging and shooting...but hey, we learned from Wanted that GRIN is good at repetition), but to be honest...Rad just plays too much like an incredible badass.
I'm going to dig down into the game some more tonight and HOPEFULLY get past the 70% mark. I'm NOT looking forward to that worm fight. Mostly, though, I really wanna see this big badass ending sequence that Jeff was talking about in his review...
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