I love these long-form features, keep 'em coming.

Kia ora from New Zealand! Hope Tom's enjoying his honeymoon here.

100 hours? Secretary - cancel my plans for 2014.

@Warful @H4num4n @JustArtificial Choose Your Own Adventure books used to sell pretty well. David Cage games are more advanced, better looking versions of those. If you buy an action shooter & half the gameplay is QTEs I can understand why you'd be upset but everyone knows what kind of gameplay this will be when they go in. If you don't think you'll enjoy it - don't buy it. It's still a game & anyone who liked the Indigo Prophesy, Heavy Rain or the Walking Dead will probably love it.

@Dreamerdude26 Oh no! Guitar Hero was just QTEs as well! Was that not a game? What was I doing all those hours?

Willem Dafoe is amazing. I know some people are haters on David Cage but those were real actors with very real looking emotions on their faces. If they can put that into the game & combine it with compelling gameplay - I'm in!

Played this on PS. I remember the final act seemed to be missing. It felt like they ran out of budget & suddenly crammed a final boss fight into what should have been the penultimate act. Good game though, plenty of references if you like 80's metal. Just felt a bit short.

I also think it could have been way better if you had a guitar hero controller to play the solos. I know using 2 different controllers is a bit much to ask, but it would have really made you feel like you were in the game if you had a guitar on your back just like the character you control.

Permadeath in a story based game needs to fit with the gameplay. Take FF7, Aeris could die plenty of times in battle, nothing a bit of phoenix down couldn't fix. Suddenly when it happens in a cutscene everything changes.

As a side note, I also hate when characters can jump down off huge buildings or perform amazing feats of dexterity in a cutscene which will result in death in normal gameplay (if they can even jump at all!) For instance in ME3 cutscenes, adepts could blast numerous enemies in a short space of time & then in actual gameplay there were massive cooldown periods.

Cutscenes need to relate to the game, whether it's death or otherwise.

Also able to scan your face & automatically charge your credit card if you are not the registered user.

Connor is gone? Thanks for that massive headline spoiler!

I'm not going to read this article because I don't want any more spoilers for AC3. I'm disappointed Gamespot, you're usually better than this regarding spoilers.