Great ideas on the graphics and story --- even the ideas of the game play --- but VERY poor implementation of those game play ideas. Tedious ammo collection and boring survival busy-work abound. This game features overly difficult battles with ammo that does far too little damage compared to your enemy's weapons. (One of the more tedious problems is that enemies come back to life in 2 seconds and must be killed again. Also the ammo runs out FAST and you must back track and recollect some more. And while you can shake off the damage it won't matter much when one or two blasts from your enemies will KILL you QUICK!!!). Yep. Guys come back to life (they're stunned I guess). This was done to give the player an opportunity to get "live" bounties. The problem with this is it takes about 4 or 5 hours to vacuum this "live" bounty up --- meanwhile you're exposed and will get killed by all the other enemies in one second. If you try to simply shoot the enemy enough to kill them you will soon realize that you can never be totally sure if an enemy is dead or just stunned. And, of course, your limited weak ammo will deplete all too QUICKLY. During a boss battle you will try to capture the enemy alive but will kill him at the last second without warning and lose tons of loot. In my book, to confuse the player or make the player run away to collect ammo during the heat of battle is not fun. The levels are mundane and average compared to good games like say "God of War". The sound is okay except for the voice work which is difficult to understand. Anyway, I hear that the creators of this game are quiting games and going into the feature animation business. Awesome decision. You will see why when you honestly analyze the real pros and cons of this game.
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