I <3 Missiles
posted by Kordesh (PROVIDENCE, RI) May 7, 2008
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Things you need to know:
- The boss AI is terrible. On several occasions I've managed to get them to simply bounce back and forth in once place doing nothing while I just blast away at them.
- The game tends to get choppy, at least on the 360 version I played. Mainly moving around the terrain, specifically the canyon level, will cause some slowdown. Otherwise it generally scales textures in and out fairly well.
- Did I mention this game is missile happy? The solution to increasing difficulty is to simply throw more missiles at you.This also has the side effect of making the difficulty ramp up drastically and without warning. Prepare to spam chaff for the entirety of some missions.
- Be prepared for "infinite reinforcement" moments where you simply cannot stem said tide of missiles because the jets firing them simply respawn.
- The story feels very disjointed and may as well not even be there.
- Very short. You can finish this in a few hours, same day, easily, on just about any difficulty (possibly barring ultimate due to said missile fetish making some of those missions absurd)
- Difficulty cannot be changed once you start the campaign. If you find later on it becomes much too hard, tough, start over.
-Army of One is simply a replay of the old mission maps with a "kill this many by this time" objective to unlock some armor skins for mission replays and other Army of One missions.
Ultimately, very shiny, and makes you feel pretty badass for the first few missions which is fun, but it's movie game syndrome all over again. It has it's moments, and if you can stand being very frustrated by a few missions (some lovely insta death moments) then it is at least worth a rental.
-(originally posted by myself on GT)
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