Why Bourne? I used to love Bourne...*sniff*
This game sucks.
Let's start with the tolerable:
Graphics: 7.5
The graphics are sharp and crisp. Minimal clipping issues and other glitches. Nothing special, but gets the job done.
Audio: 9.0
Smashing a dude's head into the corner of a table shouldn't sound this satisfying. The soundtrack is good too, with the original Bourne scores from the movies, and a few original recordings just for the game.
Gameplay:4.0 (wish I could just leave this to the Angry Videogame Nerd)
I was disappointed. I was expecting BOURNE!! I never even finished this crappy game because quite frankly, you've seen one level and you've seen them all. You're doing the same very basic things over and over. Run into room. Take cover from bullets. Get shot anyway because cover system is aweful and un-responsive. Exit cover. Try to shoot people. Run out of ammo because it takes atleast 10 bullets to kill someone. Charge them out of frustration, disarm, use fast attack until blocked. Switch to strong attack until you can build up your adrenaline meter. Use super finisher, watch awesome cutscene of your character kicking ass. Move to next room, and repeat. Can you see why this gets old quickly? I never even made it to the infamous driving sequence.
The Bourne movies were all about suspence, using the environment, and improvising whenever you can, with whatever you can. Everything the series is known for is thrown out the window to make room for this overly simplistic beat 'em up. What's worse is that this game LOOKS cool. But that's basically what you're doing while "playing" the game. Looking. Every cool thing that happens in the game is basically a cutscene and control is taken away from you as you watch your character kick major ass, and when that cutscene ends you're let down all over again, and it's back to the two-punch fighting system (completely devoid of combos. Although kicks are introduced a couple hours in, they're just gimmacks and seem to be there only if you're tired of the punching animations) or the shooting mechanics that make you wanna chew your way through the f$^@&ing controller. I mean, WHAT WERE THEY THIIINKING?? I paid money to rent a game about Bourne, not watch a simplified movie based *somewhat* on a character that happened to steal all of Matt Damon's lines!!
I was kinda looking forward to this, like I do for every other liscenced game, thinking it's gonna be the next holy grail that breaks the curse.
A mediocre attempt, a below average game on it's own merits. However, the worst part of it is it's name. The *Bourne* Conspiracy.
More like Epic Fail Conspiracy. This one gets the official Roguester stamp of SH*T.
