Poor Gears of War clone
Uncharted 2 was a huge hit, and I got uncharted 3 with my system, so I figured I'd get this game to play em in order. This game is a huge disappointment:
How would I describe this game?
-Wave after wave after wave of enemies, whom you shoot at from behind cover. (that's pretty much it)
On the surface this looks like an Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider genre game - well no, it's not, it's a freaking Gears of War clone. Gears of War was all about fighting waves of enemies, you expected it. This game - jeeze - you'll kill off like 15 bad guys (takes a while) from behind cover and you'll think for a second that was fun now time to explore - NOPE - you'll hear a bad guy yell and another wave will hit, and you'll be pinned down fighting them off - then you'll do it one more time. There's a fine line between fun combat and GRIND, this game leaps over that line, you'll be GRINDING through bad guys thinking, "Shouldn't I be doing some platforming?" Usually if they just had one less wave it would be bearable, annoying, but bearable - as-is, it's just tedious, the combat ain't that great. Hand to hand combat and grenades feel half baked and are borderline broken.
- What little platforming there is, isn't all that original, but compared to fighting wave after wave of bad guys you'll enjoy the five or six ledges you get to jump around on your way to the next 3 waves of bad guys.
- Platforming while often a welcome change of pace, is marred by some bad controls, in some areas you have to jump exactly forward, 9 times out of 10 (real statistic) you'll be a little to far left, or right.
- Vehicles break things up a little, but just aren't that fun
- Graphically, this game is lack luster to say the least. It's old, but still it often looks like a PS2 game. There are some vistas, and a few underground portions where the graphics do indeed shine, but unfortunately, most of the game is marred by lack luster, pixelated graphics. The cut scenes in particular range from bad, to just awful.
- The ending (no spoiler) is terrible.
This is a terrible game