Lost a couple of points straight away because of no quicksave - needlessly frustrating. (If anyone was able to get through the section where you have to escort the old slave to the diamond mine and he insists on running ahead and getting himself killed repeatedly without tearing out great fistfuls of hair as I did, then you're a better man than me, Gunga Din). Apart from that, I found it quite entertaining. The graphics were good, the AI was acceptable, and the weapons packed a useful punch. There's no storyline to speak of, but that isnt really a handicap in a game of this sort, where the thrills are visceral rather than cerebral. I have to come back to the lack of quicksave though. One of the earlier SOF games had a limited quicksave (5 saves per level I think). Why on earth couldn't the same thing have been used here?
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