Oh dear, just when we thought PC games are slowly climbing out of the hole, just to fall in again due to lots high profile game developers porting the games poorly to the PC. And to think Pariah, an unreal engine game that uses an engine optimized for the PC could fall in this class of bad games. We've already seen it once with Deus Ex 2, seems like every Unreal engine based game are moving to the console and what we get is a the scraps from them. Pariah was one of my most waited games I wanted to play. It wasn't for the multiplayer or action, but it was storyline that made me want to spent $40 bucks on. The first noticable thing in the game was the cutscenes. The cutscenes are rendered in the engine, but looks very jaggy and poorly made. The reason why was the developers recorded and copied it from the Xbox to the PC. Another very noticable problem was when I was playing about 2 hours into the game, I was ready to save and go to bed. To my surprise there was no quick save, save feature, or anything and this game is in the Unreal 2 engine? Unreal 2 had a save anywhere feature, what happened here? And to my sadness, when I got back to the game, the next morning, the game didn't save my progress or anything. About 2 hours later, I returned the game to my EBworld store and got a full refund back. If you have an Xbox, its probably better to buy the game for that since it seems game developers nowadays are just making games primary for the console system and to make a few extra buck, port the game to the PC in whatever condition it was. Other then that, this game isn't worth $40 bucks.
Pariah is one of that generic first person shooter that you really can pass through it and you'll never miss for not playing it. All in this game is poorly made, and anyone who plays it will see a lot of elements fro... Read Full Review
