World in flames , which is probably how the devs percieve their own forum now that this game has been released.
When i read the gamespot review i thought to myself ‘wow. the game cant be that bad , not to deserve a 5 score’ , turns out i was wrong to some extent. However they were playing on the console version – if they were playing the PC version it probably would have gotten a much lower score.
Summary of flaws.
– Your character will say some sort of horrible one liner 95% of the time when you : – Controls are utterly retarded and nega-intuitive , which seems to be an increasing trend in games nowadays. It DOES support the 360 control pad , however the aiming reticle seems to go reeeeeeeaally slow regardless of how high you put the sensitivity on , it also has an issue with deadzones where if your stick isnt completely straight , it’ll still turn/walk. – Lack of proper widescreen support , the game only supports 4:3 and 16:9 , almost all widescreen computer monitors are 16:10, this means that if you put widescreen on , you’ll be greeted with a horizontally squished game. This leads to…. – The graphics look shit , well… maybe not THAT shit. And nobody would really care if… (the game actually doesent look that bad with the aspect ratio fixed) – The framerate is shit. For what you get graphics wise , the framerate really shouldnt be as low as it is. – The text all has a very odd pixelated look to it , not sure if this is intentional or just because i run it at really high res but.. yeah. – The game uses subtitles along with its audio , and like most badly made games , the subtitles dont sync with whats being said. Sometimes they also disapear too fast , appear too fast , or dont appear at all. – Speaking of audio and subtitles. They censor swearing. I don’t really know what rating the game is supposed to be but for a game where you can kill anyone , blow up anything , headbutt people in tanks , steal cars/bikes etc… Do you really need to censor swearing? Its got a really horrible high pitched tone in place of swearing as well which makes it worse. – The game uses icons instead of keys/buttons to tell you what to do. So for example if you’re supposed to hit the melee button to do something , a little icon will apepar with a fist instead of [F] or whatever the xbox control is. This wouldnt really be a problem if it at some point told you what the buttons were , its also impossible to find the buttons in the game controller settings because they just arent there or dont tell you. – The tanks/cars/trucks/bikes handle about as well as wet fish after rubbing baby oil over your hands. You’ll go crashing into walls , other vehicles and of course lots of… – Civilians LOVE running into the road randomly as you drive by. Like nigs to KFC they all become magnetized to the front of you car – each time you hit them you lose $5000. Fun. – All NPC’s talk too much , being able to hear the enemy is one thing , but hearing ‘ENEMY SIGHTED , THE ENEMY IS HERE , THE ENEMY IS BEHIND THE TREE , THE ENEMY IS HERE , ENEMY SIGHTED , ENEMY SIGHTED , THE ENEMY IS BEHIND THE TREE’ about 5 times in 10 seconds will very quickly drive you batshit insane. – General bugs with the game , for example the one below~ This was part of a mission , throw the smoke grenade into the objective marker. Then do some other shit before the deadline time runs out. As you can see , the smoke grenade is clearly INSIDE the marker , i tried throwing it about 200 times. No dice. – oh , one more thing. The music ingame is like a horrible 5 second loop of something straight from ‘the empire strikes back’
Kill someone
Pick up an item
Get in a vehicle
See another vehicle
Hit a civilian
The scene below near the start of the game for example. Press the feet button. This looks easier than it is here because you can take a good hard stare at the picture. When you’re playing the game you have around a second to evaluate what it is , and then press the button. It also said nothing about having to tap the jump button multiple times – As a result i ended up trying nearly every button in the game and then went to gamefaqs.
^ Thankfully i wasnt the only one that had no idea wtf to do.
If the mission wasnt about 30 minutes long in total i would have turned the game off at this point.
Eventually i managed to complete the objective by killing myself , spending 3 minutes driving back , 2 minutes hijacking the tank , 2 minutes killing everyone inside the base and then throwing the fucking smoke into the marker and this time it worked first time.