Remember on the first game if you held the direction of whatever power you wanted to select, Mercer would do a short animation to equip them, instead of them just appearing? It could be used to BADASS effect in the middle of a battle if you were surrounded!! I cant figure out how to do that in this one!!

Also, the allocation of powers to either X or Y. If you hold LB, whatever power is highlighted will be equipped anyway, so I don't get what the point of the shortcuts are for? Pressing X in combat with something like the claws unequipped just punches a dude!

Any clarification on the above is most appreciated!! Apart from that, its LITERALLY more of the same, even down to the animations for pretty much everything! Kiiiiinda lazy tbh!

I don't understand your first point (I havent played the game), but how would that change the effectiveness of a move?

Ah no not the effectiveness, even though during this animation if dudes were next to you they'd get cut up, na I just meant for effect you could trigger these animations! And if they've took em out, thats kinda lame!

@ShalashaskaUK666: I know what you mean, like that animation too but I've tried everything and it does not seem to be in the game at all, a shame though. At least they're giving us the armour ability which was missing.

You can't manually use the animations like you could in the first game.

@ShalashaskaUK666 said:

Also, the allocation of powers to either X or Y. If you hold LB, whatever power is highlighted will be equipped anyway, so I don't get what the point of the shortcuts are for? Pressing X in combat with something like the claws unequipped just punches a dude!

And I'm not even sure what you're saying here....