There is never a single mission where Tony’s mask is not the best option (which goes to show how little thinking you actually need to do).
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Pick Tony for your mask, he is a one-hit-kill on all but a few enemies. Overall:Įvery single mission boils down to this: 1. You can beat this game in one sitting because the challenge is not that hard and the game is only a handful of hours long. I’m not wasting time commenting on it further – aside from saying it was also very short.
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It’s so vapid, stupid, and such a tryhard attempt to be edgy that you can look it up yourself if you care. The worst being the song that plays in the MC’s apartment and the main menu, the best easily being “Hydrogen” (the song earlier in the review). Within the first few levels you’re already feeling tired of it even as you briskly pass through the challenges.Įverything else? Music ranges from a few great songs, a handful of godawful ones, and then mostly ‘okay-to-bad’ stuff. The final, and maybe most important issue for many, is that the gameplay isn’t just annoying and unfair half the time – but also extremely repetitive and monotonous, and this is not a thing that takes awhile to set in. Or I’d be being swarmed and, oh, time to lock on to the guy across the building instead of any of the 9 guys right infront of me. I’d sneak up on someone and oops, I lock on to a guy across the hall behind me by accidentally pushing the stick down slightly as I move and now I’m swinging at the air and he’s killing me. This got me killed far more times than any of my own actual mistakes as well. R3 is very easy to press by mistake, and remember, this is a typical console port without any way of reassigning buttons. R3 is the right analog stick – the one you use to move where your character is looking, and thus gun and melee attack direction as well. They put the LOCK-ON button, a button which makes your character stuck in the direction of the enemy you’re locked onto (and doesn’t turn off unless you click it again) as R3.
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As I said, I played this on PS3 because it was free – and the controls on the console version of this game are so bad I almost can’t believe it’s not a joke. Having nobody hear that gun shot the other 30 times but somehow the entire building did this time is bullshit.Īnd then, the next biggest problem with this game: the console port. Having a dog walk out of the map and thus making the mission UNBEATABLE is bullshit.
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Being shot by a guy who the last 49 times didn’t notice me across the entire building suddenly sniping me with a shotgun because he randomly spawned closer than he’s supposed to on my 50th attempt is just bullshit. That’s fine, I don’t mind it being challenging, I don’t even mind dying a hundred times because of MY OWN MISTAKES. I hate to say it, but this is one time where the always annoying phrase of “artificial difficulty” does come into play quite often. This takes away that puzzle element, removes any skill component, and replaces the entirety of what once was a fair battle of figuring things out with a game of pure luck and chance.
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It bugs out a lot, it fucks up, it also genuinely cheats from time to time (albeit, through said bugs, not purposefully on the dev’s part). The biggest issue with the game comes into play here. So yes, this is a puzzle game centered around dying a lot to figure out “okay, I died because I did that, but if I do this it’ll turn out differently”.