Jimmy's Gaming Journal
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Jimmy's Gaming Journal - 7/23/08
So I decided to start a journal about the games I'm playing. I don't know if anyone will ever read it, but it might be fun to update every now and then. I started The Bourne Conspiracy yesterday, and I almost quit yesterday too. The first mission just pissed me off. The designers thought it would be cool to have you go through the mission where Jason ends up losing his memory, but they just take a piss all over the whole premise of Jason Bourne in the process. In The Bourne Identity, Jason learns that he was supposed to be a silent assassin, one that makes hits without anyone knowing he did it. In the movie, he was supposed to kill Wambosi in a way that made it look like only one of Wambosi's own men could have pulled the trigger. No one was supposed to know Bourne was ever there. In the game, the bad guys know he's there from the start. You fight other assassins, Wambosi's army, blow up a fuel station, and then fake your death in the water so Wambosi's men think you're dead. However, not five minutes later, you get in a huge gunfight on the boat with men screaming, "It's the assassin from the docks!" So what was the point of that whole fake death thing?! Just utter stupidity. That whole mission didn't make me feel like I was a part of the story at all.The gameplay is decent, though repetitive and frustrating at times. There seems to be too much emphasis on the shooting gameplay, which again seems odd in a game about Jason Bourne. But the emphasis here is on when he was an assassin, so that doesn't matter too much. In the end, it's not a bad game, but not really a good game either. I'll probably play it a little longer, but I wonder if I'll finish it or just move on to something better.