@padaporra said:
@Cloud_imperium said:
TNO is decent but FEAR is one of the best games ever made. Graphics still look great, AI still surprises me with its moves and gun fights are satisfying due to sound effects, smoke effects, destructible environments and slow motion. Scary moments in the game are very creative and storytelling is dynamic,
But that's exactly what TNO has. The things that made FEAR combat so satisfying are there in the TNO. WEll, not slow motion, but I always prefered to play FEAR without it.
About the AI? Well, that's a more complicated discussion. But only thinking of combat, I wouldn't say FEAR AI is that brilliant. It fits the game, it's aggressive and it interacts very well with the environment, but that's it. Even if TNO's combat AI is not that good, it's also not much worse.
It absolutely is a lot worse, they do absolutely nothing interesting. They mostly stand there or shuffle here and there like generic FPS AI. Fear's AI takes advantage of the level design, they coordinate, they take flanking paths, they'll circle a garage area and work around the back door. It does plenty of clever things.
Plus effects wise? not the same, a room in Fear looks like the elevator scene from The Matrix when bullets are flying through sheet rock and papers flying with all them sparks coming out of those computers. In the New Order? The environmental effects are dull at best. The real joy comes from gib shots between all the blood, the meaty delimbing, and the death animations.
Fear's combat is a mixture of that excellent shooting (and the guns do pack more of a punch on raw feedback vs the ones in new order)+the slow mo to go along with some interesting enemies. The New Order is entirely carried by its mechanics, and some quality pacing. But it's outclassed in the core combat department.
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