...That you've received two games for Christmas and both a bit of a lemon.
No.1 - Sleeping Dogs. Bought on the basis of the various reviews and accolades but already stuck at an early stage, the mission where you have to chase the guy then end up in a kung fu fight on a rooftop against multiple opponents. No matter how many combinations of F, E and LMB mashing I just get beaten to a tar. Every time. The so called "sandbox" open world isn't there - try and leave the area to find health, weapons or power ups and the game fades to white, it won't let you deviate from where you should be. No means of lowering the difficulty level. = Waste Of Money 1.
No.2 - X-Rebirth. Well I should have known better, despite the patches and so called fixes. The whole style of the game is different with the structured, if unrealistic, systems linked by jumpgates, replaced by equally unrealistic abstract "areas" linked by various green "tubes". The ship handles like a slug on Nytol, the laser fires at the opposite direction from the reticule and just generally feels muurgh compared to the excellence that was Terran Conflict. So Waste Of Money 2.
No.1 - Sleeping Dogs. Bought on the basis of the various reviews and accolades but already stuck at an early stage, the mission where you have to chase the guy then end up in a kung fu fight on a rooftop against multiple opponents. No matter how many combinations of F, E and LMB mashing I just get beaten to a tar. Every time. The so called "sandbox" open world isn't there - try and leave the area to find health, weapons or power ups and the game fades to white, it won't let you deviate from where you should be. No means of lowering the difficulty level. = Waste Of Money 1.
No.2 - X-Rebirth. Well I should have known better, despite the patches and so called fixes. The whole style of the game is different with the structured, if unrealistic, systems linked by jumpgates, replaced by equally unrealistic abstract "areas" linked by various green "tubes". The ship handles like a slug on Nytol, the laser fires at the opposite direction from the reticule and just generally feels muurgh compared to the excellence that was Terran Conflict. So Waste Of Money 2.
