The story line is very basic. There is a evil war lord that needs to be killed. The big problem with this game is that there are just two types of missions: Kill somebody or blow something up and its the same for the main and the side missions. Whenever I take a mission I just hope that the point where I have to go is not to far away because most of the time you will find it at the other side of the map. So most of the time you will be spending in a car driving from A to B. You can't take more than one mission at a time. So just taking a bunch of missions and then solve them at the same time doesn't work. It becomes boring after the 4th or 5th mission. The only thing that keeps me playing is that I want to try out different weapons, but you have to finish missions to unlock the weapons. After the first couple of hours you realize that you are going to be doing the same thing over and over again, pick up mission then drive to the other side of the map and accomplish the mission, mainly the only thing you are doing is driving back and forth between identical missions. You feel like there is no reason to play the game. You never really get engaged. However some of the missions are very fun but together they are formulaic and quite repetitive. Physics could be better, you can "use" items, but you can't pick up items. For some reason, you can't stack barrels or boxes on top of each other to climb to a ledge, but you can shove them around enough to get them to stack, although the fire mechanics are good. Playing on a decent computer you can appreciate all the time and effort that was put in the graphics and admiring the scenery. The graphics and spreading fire system are good. And the health system like digging bullets out from your wounds is a cool feature.
Pros: Solid graphics, good sound effects, some times the objectives and missions have good fun, open-ended environments.
Cons: very repetitive gameplay; no replay value, frustrating amounts of back-and-forth. respawning enemies, enemy vehicles go faster then yours,even if your a mile a head no prone position, enemies can see through walls and in the dark, bad guys take around 10 hits to die, and thats just to the head!
And finally to sum it all up waste of money, waste of time and a waste of a game
Graphics 7/10 Gameplay 2/10 Replay Value 0/10 Sound 5/10
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