Great adventure, inexcusable gameplay
This game is basically a rough draft of some serious masterpieces to come. Everything seems great at first and you expect a nice long journey of marvels and thrills.. But it sadly turns out that 95% of the game takes place behind a cover object where enemies are shooting at you from all different directions.
The redundant/predictable series of shootouts gets old at record breaking speeds. The guns are bland, the shot sounds are dull,the hitboxes on enemies are off, you never have enough ammo, and there are not nearly enough guns to keep things interesting. The few times you do find a cool gun (like a magnum it is only limited to 6 shots so you can only enjoy it for a few seconds) and the grenade launchers only have 2-3 rounds. This would be fine if you could carry more than one weapon but you can't which forces you to choose between a cool gun with barely any ammo or your regular weapon with full ammo. The fact that you can only care one weapon really makes choosing your arsenal a drag. You should be able to exchange your pistol so you can carry a shotgun and an assault rifle at the same time. There are also other little quirks like the enemies having pixel perfect accuracy where they can hit you from a quarter mile away with every shot in the same spot of your body while they are running away from you. And It's difficult to get headshots because only 50% of the enemies head will register that it has been shot.. Other times you can shoot a guy behind cover and your bullet will be deflected by an invisible protruding barrier.
There are times where i wish i could just have a "skip combat" button because every time i run into a new area i know that 100 enemies are going to come running out and i have to take an hour killing them all over and over. It really gets boring fast. And the whole game is just a makarov pistol and an ak47.. Later comes an m16 assault rifle but its basically just as boring as the AK was. You also get a draganov sniper rifle but it only has 5 rounds.. SNORE.
Other than that the gorgeous environments and the movie-like cinematics keep me pushing onward to see what will happen next. They really did an excellent job with the story telling and making you feel like you are important to everyone around you.