I don't care that the graphics do suck, however because you expect them to suck doesn't make them worth a 9.5 purely for some pretty water.
But in all honesty, its the design that sucks. THe walls are all so flat, its like something from a game 10 years ago, there is, up till now, simply no terraine, everythings flat as can be. Walls and buildings look generic flat textured crap. The terraine "effects" are just a few repeated patterns that aren't actually any good, the tree's are dodgey, the units aren't very high detail and simply don't look very cool. THe freaking lightsaber's.
It doesn't have to be technically superior graphically, but they could have done far more if they focused the design making good looking units and less stupid looking, "we've watched far to much transformers recently" buildings rather than ***** all their graphical power on, well, water effects.
But the problem past all of that is, gameplay, carbon copy missions. The same mix of a sniper mission here and there where you run in, destroy this or that, use the same weapons, swim out to c4 some boats. THe ruski first mission is all but a complete copy of, i think it was RA2's intro, might have been a different C&C game, she comes in to an island, kills a few guys, swims out to blow up 4 boats.
Its not cool to hate it, its just crap.
AS for screenshots, as I said, frankly it doesn't matter how it looks AS LONG AS IT PLAYS WELL. however when you make a crap game, having generic crappy graphics isn't exactly going to help raise your opinion of it.
But then lets be honest, a 10/10 game rarely doesn't have it on all fronts, a 9/10 game rarely has crap graphics, its PART of what makes a good game. We move on in life, while Mario 1 on the NES would be nice to play again once for historical value, its so basic, easy and looks like death as a brand new game everyone would laugh at it. Likewise if a brand new FPS came out with Wolfeinstein3D quality enemies to kill it just wouldn't feel right. You can say graphics mean completely nothing, but you can't have a truly epic game without somewhat decent graphics. Not every game has to be fantastic though. Overlord isn't great looking but is fantastic fun to play, not the usual game I would have gotten at all, its no 10/10 game, but its fun. This however is not.
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