Ok, I'm a bunch of hours in now, and I'll admit I'm pretty damn impressed. There are some issues - it's a hardware pig like nothing I've seen for years, and there ARE some AI problems, but usually on the mutants that are supposed to be at best animal smart anyway.
Ammo is supposed to be underpowered, too - if you want real ammo, you have to use pre-apocalypse ammo, which is used as currency instead. It's a whole lot more powerful due to the superior manufacturing that was available before the crash. With that said, I've run out of ammo a couple times at worst, and never to the point that I didn't have another weapon to switch to.
The effects in this game are amazing. Smoke / fog looks real. Light works the way it should. Shooting some poor bastard in the foot or elbow around the corner merely pisses them off, unlike most games. And the enemy humans tend to charge when they hear you reloading, the fucks.
Some other features that have been missing from games for years... a lot of this game is played underground, and this means it's dark. You can blow out lanterns, and shoot out lights, at which point everyone is reduced to flashlights, which suck, or the rare night vision gear, which tends to not suck. Most of the time you can sneak around in the dark, use a silenced weapon, and play havoc on the bad guys. You even have a light indicator on your watch that tells you how visible you are. You need to be careful to stay silent, too - there are hanging empty tin cans that rattle if you touch 'em, and bandits break plates on the floor so they crunch when you try to sneak in, then come shooting when you touch them. The guys who made this obviously played Thief way back in the day.
Bottom line: Worth the $50. Should have bought this and passed on Supreme Commander 2, I'd be $50 richer.
Ammo is supposed to be underpowered, too - if you want real ammo, you have to use pre-apocalypse ammo, which is used as currency instead. It's a whole lot more powerful due to the superior manufacturing that was available before the crash. With that said, I've run out of ammo a couple times at worst, and never to the point that I didn't have another weapon to switch to.
The effects in this game are amazing. Smoke / fog looks real. Light works the way it should. Shooting some poor bastard in the foot or elbow around the corner merely pisses them off, unlike most games. And the enemy humans tend to charge when they hear you reloading, the fucks.
Some other features that have been missing from games for years... a lot of this game is played underground, and this means it's dark. You can blow out lanterns, and shoot out lights, at which point everyone is reduced to flashlights, which suck, or the rare night vision gear, which tends to not suck. Most of the time you can sneak around in the dark, use a silenced weapon, and play havoc on the bad guys. You even have a light indicator on your watch that tells you how visible you are. You need to be careful to stay silent, too - there are hanging empty tin cans that rattle if you touch 'em, and bandits break plates on the floor so they crunch when you try to sneak in, then come shooting when you touch them. The guys who made this obviously played Thief way back in the day.
Bottom line: Worth the $50. Should have bought this and passed on Supreme Commander 2, I'd be $50 richer.
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