Rambo Vs. Dino Too bad that sums up the only enjoyable part of this game.
The gameplay itself is far to easy on the normal setting, and the hard setting is mediocre at best. I would've liked to have seen some more ingenuity in the weapon design, most of the guns left me bored and I just stuck to the knife and bow (which you'll have no problem getting through the game with). It would be nice to have checkpoints placed a little more frequently, but the dev. team must have realized the difficulty wasn't where it should be and took most of them out. Thats all that stops it from being a very easy game.
I liked the way the 3rd person kills are used, but I wish there was more variety in them, during a paticularly long stretch of fighting off velociraptors with my knife I executed the same kill animation more than a dozen times until a raptor caught me off guard and started gnawing on my face, which is not as lethal as it may sound. The worst aspect of this is that you always seem to end up facing away from any other enemies in your immediate vicinity after you perform a 3rd person kill. Leaving your tender rear ready for the riddling.
I absolutely love the fact that the game developers spent more time developing the AI of the Dinos than that of the Humans. Many times I found myself wondering how we survived as long as we have, developed space travel, accelerated the very nature of evolution and yet we can't produce soldiers smart enough to say "HEY! Maybe I shouldn't run back and forth in a line shooting at this guy when there is cover to my left." or "Hmmm. Maybe it wouldn't be such a super good idea to hide behind this nice big explosive barrel". It is paticularly hilarious to watch the AI glitch out and get stuck running on thin air, or standing on ground thats no longer under them. IThough I will give them this, they have x-ray eagle vision or something because hiding behind things doesn't work. No matter how far away you think you are, or how invisible you think you are, somewhere in the level a human enemy has spotted you and is preparing to shoot you.
Pros: Dinosaurs! Rawr!
Cons: Apparently there is a Checkpoint famine sweeping the world, we need to donate our unused checkpoints to a fund of some sort to ensure that games that need them should be able to get them.
My Final Words:
Play this for the sake of stabbing dinosaurs with knives. If thats your thing, you'll be in heaven. If you like a combat engine with perhaps a little more variety, or maybe even a decent spread of weapons, then there are better games.