Wanted:W.o.F Misses Target But Has Potential
posted by ZombeSlayR (DALLAS, TX) Apr 3, 2009
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You've heard this in 99.9% of reviews,opinions,&feedback on Wanted:Weapons of Fate--the game is super short&repetitive.Instead of rewording&repeating what you've already heard&read,I'm going to take a more constructive approach.Because it WAS fun&addictive,I beat the game in the same day I rented it,&I was glad I only rented it. It's worth playing through once,though short&sweet like easy,quick,&dirty. It was cool running up on a gun-toting bad guy&instantly killing him with a knife attack,but I quickly saw I was doing the same2or3 knife attacks over & over.If there would have been more animations in these slicings that you could mix up for more variety&maybe take out more than one baddie at a time,that would have been much cooler & truer to the training of Butcher in the movie.Which leads me to my next point,I remember how inspired with awe I was by the film's car stunts&scenes as an assassin could focus&curve his bullet trajectory to hit another's gas tank,while both are weaving at blurring speeds through traffic.These most memorable scenes from the movie are totally missing from the game.&I mean gameplay,not cutscenes. It would have been too awesome to ram your car full speed into,say a limo,& flip your vehicle upside down over it in slow motion to take out your target with a headshot through his sunroof,while apologizing,"I'm soOoOrry!" Heck,I hope WB Games somehow gets wind of this review&take notes.In this day&age,sprawling miles of city streets&terrain can be recreated(ala the upcoming Fuel game)to rip up&perform various car stunts while picking off enemies,with a huge building structure here&there to shoot your way through,blended seamlessly with hand-to-hand combat&knife attacks like a true any-means-nesseccary- assassin.With today's next gen consoles there's no reason why games like Wanted:WoF shouldn't be as equally action-packed&moving as its motion picture counterpart.Instead,its like an out-dated but pretty arcade game,run&shoot, &run&shoot some more.
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