Completed in one evening! I is best!
Yeah your right. Not a big deal. But it is true. This is the first game I have completed in one straight sitting. I generally don't complete games, the whole "I can't complete the game game too quickly, I want the experience to last forever" thing. Reading other previews and reviews, I knew that this was a quick one and a fairly shallow one but having said that an memorable experience.
Slick graphics (mostly), slick presentation (The quick loading of the title screen is something all games should have! Leave the company advertising logos to the credits guys!) and action film pacing, kept me entertained for the duration. Though there where too big problems:
1. Where was Kane in this game? I never played the first one so is he a ghost or imaginary friend of some kind? I never really felt that anyone else was going through the experience with Lynch. Even the part playing as Kane felt like a dream sequence of some kind!
2. Lynch's hair! Just badly done.
I 'm generally on the side that games are too long! (>20 hours is far too long! The only exception for me is the Flight SImulator series. Definitely over 200 hours.) Dog Days is historic in that it set the minimum length bar for a single player campaign/story mode. Not into multiplayer (unless it's a Battlefield game) so can not comment on that. Did try it once, not interesting. Tacked on feel. So forgetting it had multilayer; play it if you like action third person shooters so long as you don't want your single player experience to be less than 6 hours.
