Clunky, slow, and boring.
posted by Phatslugga (FARMINGTON HILLS, MI) Jun 11, 2008
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Before getting into gameplay I would like to note that the graphics are pretty forgettable. The game felt like it was made 2 or 3 years ago. A well-designed game will have graphics that absorb you into the game, at points you may even forget you're playing a game. In Turning point, it's painfully obvious that you're playing a game the entire time. The game starts off like Red Dawn, Germans attacking New York while you're watching helplessly, but it feels very scripted. This intro to the game was compared to Call of Duty by many... it is NOWHERE near that epic. Call of Duty does a much better job involving you in the game and making you think that you're a part of what is going on. Turning Point is just mundane and linear to the point where you feel like it's a chore to play this game.
The gameplay... where do i start?
First off, the weapons are all very familiar and uninteresting. So you have your smg's your rifles and near the end you get some explosives. This is the case for many games, but Turning Point's mechanics for gunplay are just tiresome. When you shoot your enemies, it feels like you're not even hitting them, they sit there motionless shooting at you until they finally die and just slump over. In a good game, shooting an enemy in the leg will cause him to stumble, and wince in pain. It needs to be more animated to give the player a small type of reward for his success.
The level design as before mentioned is very linear. You go from point A to point B with almost no chance or reason to explore. There's almost always one straight-forward path you take to get to the end of the level. This is a style that most games abandoned, and the ones that kept it, did it well. This was not done well.
Setting it on a hard difficulty for a challenge. The AI doesn't get any better, they just shoot with 100% accuracy, and take a bit longer to die. Instead of making the game trickier or require more strategy, they just give the AI cheats. Not even worth a rent.
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