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I for one think the review was fair and it seems I am among the few to think that. First of all, it's an inconsistent experience. In some areas, enemies respawn if you re-enter said areas within a couple of minutes, while in others they never do at all. It's also quite disorienting. By default it marks every single objective as active BUT DOES NOT show what they are in the HUD unless you're 100m or closer to them. Consequently, unless you go through the tedious check/uncheck objective routine, you'll have trouble knowing where you're supposed to go. To make matters worse, many keycards and/or codes needed are scattered in the most hidden places, leaving you to spend a great part of the time looking for them, while having to battle some of the enemies that respawn over and over again in certain areas, all the while scrambling to stretch your very limited supplies as much as possible. There's not much in the way of protection either. Your suit feels rather useless in that regard, it feels more like a rag that does almost nothing to protect you. That's not all. The weapons are only mildly effective against anything larger than a basic mimic, thus you may often find you simply don't have enough ammo to survive an encounter with multiple enemies. Probably the absolute worst part are the glitches. NPCs turn hostile for reasons unknown, preventing mission progress, while dead NPCs carrying mission-critical items turn up missing. Also, in some areas, you simply take an amount of damage when entering, for reasons unknown, or when switching your weapon. The latest patch didn't fix the issues completely, instead it just reduced the likelihood of them occurring.
Also I would like to point out that the graphics felt dissapointingly dated, even with everything maxed out. Textures not loading properly or loading with a huge delay did not help the experience either. Although, I can imagine they had to chop up the graphics engine in such a way that AMD cards can handle it properly, after all you see the large AMD logo every time you start the game.
As it is, i'd give this game a 6 for the story (the story is the only thing that kept me going) but that's about all.

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You should not pay attention to this review, honestly. I played the game twice now, and it was worth every minute of it.

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That sounds to me like what AMD does with their CPU's as well. Just jam-pack more cores in there, turn up the clock until they blow up and then back it down a little bit. It's true, they're way more popular with most people usually because of the price tag, though i'm not sure that's also true for graphics cards. Actually, i'll admit, i would go the AMD way on any day but there's driver issues upon driver issues...

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Actually i don't like most of those games. Can't miss Jess though :D