[QUOTE="PsychiKleftis"] Been playing it for about 5 hours straight, and I definitely like it. The graphics are just fine (playing with everything maxed), I wouldn't even call them dated. Great atmospheric effects, think cool lightening and things like that. Great sound effects. The AI so far actually seems pretty believable...the human enemies are pretty good at flanking you unexpectedly and the weaker kind of animals definately favour flight over fight if you tag them a couple times. If you're looking for an open-ended FPS game I think this is it. I'm 100% happy with my purchase so far.
The complaints that I've seen have been largely that the game is actually too hard and I've had to remind more then a few of them they need to use the iron-sights (right click by default) to get any kind of ranged accuracy. This is NOT a run and gun game, you definately need to proceed through hostile areas carefully and try to get the drop on your enemies.
Oh, and just a personal note I really like how there are many different kinds of weapons, like automatics, pistols, shotguns, etc...most FPS games it's like...here's THE pistol, here's THE shotgun, here's THE machinegun kind of thing and it's kind of bland.
If all that sounds good to you, go pick it up ;)
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It's STRAIGHT, and you've spent almost 40 bucks on a game you call STRAIGHT? I'll take your word for that! :) I'm pretty tight with my money, I probably won't buy it from the reaction of their community. I don't understand what you're trying to say to me...something about how I call the game straight? What...? IÂ PLAYED the game for 5 hours straight...now it's actually more like 8...
Anyway. I wanted to reply to about 5 posts so I'll just sum up my reactions:
The AI does not shoot you through solid walls. They may shoot you through wood or cloth if they think you are there. This is called realism. They are trying to kill you.
If you get radiation poisoning you have to CURE IT. It simply does not just go away. This too, is called realism.
The AI is quite impressive and challenging. Your human advesaries attack and fall back behind cover, charge when you're shooting at someone else, and just generally try to outflank you. If you're constantly dying in this game then you REALLY need to go back to playing a simple run-and-gun type game (don't get me wrong, those are fun too). You must have an understanding of the simple concept of avoiding bullets using cover, firing back with controlled bursts, and flanking groups of enemies.
Also, to reinforce what I mentioned before the graphics are NOT outdated. The effects are some of the best I've seen in any game...from the gentle breeze that rustles the grass and creates small tornadoes of leaves in courtyards to a roaring wind that rips through the trees kicking up dust to lightening storms at night illuminating a battlefield that briefly betrays an enemies location...this game displays it's very long production time.
Personally I'm very happy with a challenging FPS game instead of the kind that I can rip through on the hardest difficulty in 6 hours the first time through.
So basically it comes down to: Can your computer run it, and, is a game this challenging something you want to play?
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