Not better than Deseperados, but good enough
- The graphics are decent (could have been better, but not bad)
- To have the game in 3D makes the game better, as it gives you a better view of the game, and gives you some new possibilities
- Some of the levels takes a lot of time to complete, and you can't rely on shooting your way through the game (as I feared, after playing the demo)
- As with Desperados 1 (D1), you can beat the levels in lots of different ways
- They don't have all those tutorial levels as in D1 (They've only got 1, the first level in this game with both Cooper and Kate)
The bad:
- The AI is stupid... why couldn't they get the AI from D1?
- Sanchez hidehout (from D1) has changed a lot (doors added/removed, mountains "moved", etc)
- You can't get everywhere in the levels (as in you can't get up on roofs (refering to the roof Cooper 'landed' on in Sanchez hideout in D1), you can't enter all buildings)
- My favorite map type in D1 are nowhere to be seen. I loved city maps, but so far (halfway through the game) I've only seen two city missions (the tutorial mission, and the mission just after)
- Almost all maps are used again for a different mission... this itself is not bad, as it makes the game longer, but they did it a wrong way: First you spend lots of hours on a mission till you know every inch of the map, then as soon as you finish that mission, the map gets "reset" (bodies removed, etc) and a new mission in the same map begins again. They should at least have had a different mission between playing the same map (like they did in D1 for two of the maps)
- They removed my favorite character Mia, and replaced her with some boring indian
- I would have loved to see more maps from D1 return, but so far Sanchez' hideout is the only one
- The movies in between the missions are just "painted" pictures... but it's not that bad, and I can understand why they wanted to cut development costs (better to cut the cost in the movies department, than in the actual gameplay department)
- None of the voice actors from D1 is in D2 (maybe except for Doc, but I'm not sure)... I really miss the voices from D1