I am not a huge shooter fan, so the fact that I do like the game is something in itself. It's pretty fast-paced and there are multiple ways to achieve objectives. The nano suit is clever, and some of the weapons (gauss rifle!) are a lot of fun to unleash on your enemies. The biggest issues that I had with it were the performance problems that I kept running into. I know that this game is a beast, graphically. And, true, it does look downright spectacular. Unfortunately, this just serves to be a disappointment when you realize that when you see what this game COULD do, you have to scale back to what it CAN do on your machine. And not just low to mid range machines, either. My setup is pretty beefy, including an overclocked quad core and an overclocked SLI setup. I was able to play in some situations on very high settings, but had to scale it back once the shooting started. Played pretty well on high, until you meet the aliens. Now I'm getting a very creaky framerate...nearly unplayable. As other reviews have mentioned, once you strip away the flash of the graphics, there isn't much here that hasn't been done before, and seeing as how I am going to have to reduce my graphics settings yet again in order to continue, the flash is being stripped further and further away. I kept finding myself pausing YET AGAIN to tweak the graphics for certain situations. There are also several bugs in the game...scripting errors that fail to trigger the next event in certain missions, causing you to run around aimlessly until you start the mission, or in my case, the whole game over to rectify the situation.
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