It's like half life...with boobs!
You play as Blade, a special forces soldier of tomorrow charged with bringing down Elexis Sinclair(Who clearly loves to spill out) and also torture people and change the world with her crazy corporation known as sinTEC.
OK this game runs off the great SOURCE engine which powered THE half life 2 game of the year, so giving another company the handle over such a great engine is scary seeing as how we won't know how they will use it until its done.....so comes SIN EPISODES: EMERGENCE which is the first part of a 9 part series of adventures of Blade and his squad of teammates in his attempts to bring down sinTEC.
GRAPHICS:
Running off the source engine, you can expect one thing, solid graphics, but what also is bad is a few years old engine so it has a few dust and scars in a few areas of the levels. But besides the graphics looking out of date, still has some of the best looking enemies and environments which carry a very futuristic look. Which also helps with so much stuff being interactive as well as diverse areas from sewers to office complexes. Plus it also seems that the developer was trying to throw in some "boob" action every chance they got as well as making every girl out to be a certified slut with having her thong and bra always showing, I guess some developers use sex to sell.The thing that does outsell this game is the gore, yup Sin emergence ups the anti by shoving more gore into the game, as well as more cussing!
SOUND:
The sound is kind of weak on the guns, personally some of them sound very underpowered, especially the assault rifle. But you will hear plenty of diverse chatter from each of the characters with at least each of the characters getting OVERACTED sooner or later in the game. But expect the same basic sounds coming from FPS sounds, alarms, guns, splatter. You may recognize your partners voice as it goes to MS CORTANA herself from the halo series nice huh?
CONTROL:
what can I say it is basically WASD, with your standard jump and duck controls, nothing else is easier but the control is also part of the difficulty which I will tag in!
GAMEPLAY!:
the gameplay is somewhat of halo meets half life meets.....really something else, the problem with the sin series is this great idea is attempted but it is always overshadowed by half life. Since they both came out around the same time, but lets focus on the somewhat great run and gun gameplay, it is solid, but what makes sin different from other FPS's is the fact that it has a dynamic difficulty which means it changes with each play and it will get harder and harder as you get better and better! cool huh? yeah! Anyways the problem with this game is that you only have like 3 weapons, a pistol, a shotgun and a rifle each with a primary and secondary fire as well as of course melee but what really is weird about this game is simply that the nades take forever to go off. Ok so basically, the gameplay doesn't really change much from scripted events and a few driving segments where you are in the car just shooting people. The only thing is that when you come into contact with a green gas you go into matrix bullet time but if you OD on the gas, you get hurt, badly
CLOSING
Honestly this game is 20 dollars, and you get the original sin and the multiplayer with Sin Episodes:Emergence but seeing as this is on steam, I would wait till a good deal but seeing as how the game is cheap already, it lasts but not long enough you could clear this game in about 8 to 10 hours and seeing as how its the first episode I wonder how the others will be......anyways decent game that plays like half life and a few other shooters out there.
*NOTE yes I know the company has put a HALT on the sin series and I was hoping for more but, sometimes games just don't make it....like Blood... damn i miss blood.