Above average shooter
posted by Metoo999 (NEW YORK, NY) Jul 19, 2010
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Pros: Lively environments and excellent graphics - there's usually debris flying around or some building falling, good gunplay, co-op is a lot of fun to play when you can find someone, voice acting is decent. Morality choices have interesting "flash-forward" outcomes depending on what you choose.
Cons: The graphics in building explosions can look cheap and blocky. Story is a bit abysmal, not very exciting, aiming is difficult - I can't pin down why even after adjusting options, maybe framerate? Speaking of framerate, it can get bad and interfere a lot; sound design is not very good and you can't adjust voices, background music, etc. Sometimes the game will glitch and the gunfire and other effects will go soft until you reload the next level.
Due to the game being out for half a year, the online for the main campaign is disappointingly empty. You have to seek out players on the Web. The campaign difficulty spikes in the last chapter. The last two areas of the game are especially cheap. Constant pouring out of enemies. Thankfully, there's no trophy for beating it on Normal, so I set it to Casual and let my blood pressure go back to normal. Too many enemies in general. It's like they knew their levels were small and linear, so they put in twice as many enemies as they needed, like the first Uncharted.
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