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Saw a commercial for this...although it is single player, looks pretty cool. Everything in the environment is fair game for shooting!! heheheh

Anyone played it yet?

 

Yea, I've read where it is kinda short. But it would be fun just going around shooting stuff up!!

Besides, I finished Halo (on Normal, or whatever) in about two days. Though that was non-stop from Sunday night to Tuesday night. Stopped only to eat quickly and use the restroom. No sleeping!! heheheheh

Graphics do look pretty killer. May have to get it.

 

Picked it up Saturday (3-11) from a Meijers store, rated "M" for strong language and violence (violence? In a shoot 'em up game?? Really???).

And yes, it is definately a "shoot 'em up" game!!

I started playing it that day around 6p.m., then when I was feeling tired noticed it was 6 something in the morning!!

12 hours of playing and apparently only finished 10% of the game...on EASY!

Now, I haven't played my Xbox in ahwile, so getting used to the controls again took some time. But this game is a bit longer than I had heard. Though I'm sure some could whiz right through it.

It's definately a fun game. Well worth buying, for me at least.

On one mission I had to clear a dock. My first thoughts were "Great, big open area with lots of places for them to hide". And that's what it was like.

Fortunately I had two NPC's with me, as the fighting was unbelievable. Gunfire all around, stuff blowing up, people dieing (me also several times!!)...it was intense!!

And just about everything in the game will be taken out by gunfire. Cars exploding after so many hits, towers exploding, gas lines exploding. Some doors only open by shotgun hits or grenades.

And then there are the snipers and dudes with RPG's shooting at you.

And the enemy is pretty smart, even on Easy. They hide behind stuff, try to sneak around the other side if you are hitting them from the other.

Only thing that sucks, and this may be because I'm playing Easy right now, is you can only carry 2 weapons. True, carrying more than an M249 SAW and an MP5 would be rough, but having maybe a handgun (Uzi or MAC10 Elite) along for the ride would be nice!!

The graphics are really nice...and the physics are cool. Dudes dieing in multiple fashions!! Haven't seen one die by a wall and half of him disappear...he lays crumpled up against the wall. Or draped over a box or handrail. And if dude is wearing a helmet and you get a headshot, you can hear it and his helmet goes flying! Unless you nail them in the face, then they put their hand up to their face as they die!! heheheh

There are four difficulty levels: Easy, Normal, Hard, and Black Ops.
In Hard and Black Ops you can't carry Health Packs. You can only use First Aid kits, which are used instantly upon "collecting" them. Good luck on those levels!!!

Not sure if they give you more health on those two difficulty levels, but if you run into a "Shotgun Dude", he can take you out in about three shots, and it will take you two direct hits to kill him with a shotgun.

Anyway...a fun game!!

 

Finished it on Easy last night. Checked my profile and it says 20% completed....must be something different they are calculating.

The last battle is unbelievable. Took me hours to finish it....dieing a lot and restarting from the checkpoint.

You are by yourself on this one, and the number of dudes is incredible. Something like 140 dudes to kill. Lot's of shotgun dudes (even hitting them with the SAW takes awhile to kill them), dudes with hand held "riot" sheilds shooting at you with Magnums (perhaps the Smith & Wesson .500?!)...those things hurt!! And most of the time their sheilds will deflect even grenade explosions...they will hunker down with the sheild facing the grenade...so throwing a couple behind them helps!! And of course the RPG dudes. They suck!

Fortunatly your main weapon is the SAW, and lot's of ammo around to pick up while battleing. Going through several thousand rounds is easily done. Heck, on the first wave of dudes you can burn up 600 rounds alone.

And lots of grenades..or as the foreigners call them, "grenada!"! hehehe

I actually started again on Normal...got through a few levels, but since I know what is up now, makes it easier...but less Health Packs to be found, so that will suck.

 

Prick

 

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