It’s an excellent game, backed up with some glorious art direction, very stylised with a subtle yet effective cell shading effect, you can see the love they lavished upon the title. Signs are readable, the graphics work, although it’s a bit weird you walk through water, yet no ripples, its like you’re floating around.
So beautiful looking game for it’s not without its flaws. For such a cinematic story driven game, not being able to see your character apart from his hands means you never really connect with him, but you have to see the developers wanted ‘you’ to be the person seeing the events through his eyes, clearly from the sky hooking that goes on, it’s a rollercoaster ride, and once you realise this, as in you are the character then the game becomes more believable. So this one flaw is one of connecting, but soon as you start flying around, you are so drawn into the game, it is impressive and this flaw becomes irrelevant.
Another flaw, it’s the weapons. I don’t know what it is, but you seem to end up playing the entire game with only the choice of sniper or machine gun. For me, it is anyhow, also the vigars – it was like.. First vigar, wow got powers now. It was much better done in Bioshock when you got your first power but its still cool, the vigars are its saving grace. They work wonderfully well on combat.
The combat is certainly bioshock 1, its wonderfully enjoyable but also equally as frustrating at times….
Overall, it’s a solid game, and I’m enjoying it. The story is complex but not too complex, you need to pay attention, its easy to find where you are meant to go, its not cluttered, the HUB is perfectly fine, overall it’s a solid 9 game, and can’t wait to get home and play some more..
