I just don't see how this game is scoring >85% everywhere.
The graphics and sound are excellent...I'll give it that.
But the gameplay is just a total snore fest. Nothing special about the weapons. AI is boring. Aside from a few cool moments with the portals and gravity, the levels all look and play the same. Oh look, its another anti-grav walkway...I wonder if portals are going to magically ope n up and generic english speaking enemies are going to pop out?
Wait, theres a forcefield. I wonder if I'm going to have to go into ghost mode and pass through it, so I can click off a little screen to close the forcefield? Cause nothing makes good gameplay like blocking your progress for the sake of giving an otherwise useless gimmick a reason to exist.
At the best part of all - the game essentially has a built in god mode. The entire game is trivialized when dying only means that 10 seconds later you're going to come back, in the exact same spot, and just keep blasting the enemies over and over with the same unlimited ammo gun.
I dunno why I'm still playing it...I guess theres a certain draw to beating aliens over the head with a wrench, waiting for another gimmick that is cool for 5 seconds. I actually almost fell asleep playing it yesterday.
Quake 4 was better.
The graphics and sound are excellent...I'll give it that.
But the gameplay is just a total snore fest. Nothing special about the weapons. AI is boring. Aside from a few cool moments with the portals and gravity, the levels all look and play the same. Oh look, its another anti-grav walkway...I wonder if portals are going to magically ope n up and generic english speaking enemies are going to pop out?
Wait, theres a forcefield. I wonder if I'm going to have to go into ghost mode and pass through it, so I can click off a little screen to close the forcefield? Cause nothing makes good gameplay like blocking your progress for the sake of giving an otherwise useless gimmick a reason to exist.
At the best part of all - the game essentially has a built in god mode. The entire game is trivialized when dying only means that 10 seconds later you're going to come back, in the exact same spot, and just keep blasting the enemies over and over with the same unlimited ammo gun.
I dunno why I'm still playing it...I guess theres a certain draw to beating aliens over the head with a wrench, waiting for another gimmick that is cool for 5 seconds. I actually almost fell asleep playing it yesterday.
Quake 4 was better.
