In my opinion, it's not this bad, it's not that great either but I find it to be an alright game, certainly worthy of a shot if there is nothing else coming out for a while. Sure it can be very frustrating indeed, but some of the action stuff is neat.
Well.. Now I'm sad If Alex doesn't like it I wont either 'cus we tend to agree on these things. Now I am disappoint =( I'll get it when the price drops, I still really want to play it but I'll hold off for now.
Not to be 'that guy', but a two star game should have some sort of redeeming factor, somewhere. If ya can't recommend anything about the game at all, it's one star. Not like it's a big deal either way, the general consensus on this game is all around poor.
Pity that Alex spends so much time trying to come up with creative ways to insult the game rather than go into a useful level of detail over why he didn't like it.
@kerikxi: I considered that, but stacking it up against games like Blackwater, Velvet Assassin, and everything else that's gotten a one star review around here, I couldn't quite bring myself to do it. I dislike this game rather vehemently, but I can't call it the kind of soul-sucking clusterfuck that those other games most certainly are. It's a bad game with few redeeming qualities, but it's not a thermonuclear disaster, either.
@Alex: Why do you always get to review the absolute worst games?
Anyway, this is extremely disappointing to hear. I was looking forward to this game. I think Alex namedropping Suda51 as often as he has in this review was apt-- that was totally the kind of game I was hoping for. The dismemberment gimmick looked like it could be pretty cool if it was pulled of well.
I seems that trying to reattach yourself to your body while being stun locked and ragdolled everywhere lost planet style might have been a terrible design decision. Who would have thought? Also, from what footage I have seen the melee combat just looks absolutely awful; likely some of the worst I have ever seen. At least the shooting seems somewhat functional. Thats a 2 star game for me, one that is functional enough to play but terribly designed, boring, glitchy or hyper repetative (or a combination of those qualities). A 1 star game is one that may or may not have those qualities in addition to being completely broken either technically or through gameplay.
@Alex: Yeah, in that sense, it's at least not a completely broken experience, just a thoroughly unpleasant one. It's really just semantics; in the end, it's not a good game, and the review definitely got that across.
