Man, I just finally dug into this game, and when it works, its great. I love sneaking around and taking guys out, like the forts in Far Cry 3. But holy shit, this game seems to constantly play by a different set of rules than the ones it presents you with. The game can't seem to make up its mind about weather taking a guy out from behind cover is going to get you spotted or not. If I take out two guys with a stun gun without being spotted, my cover is blown anyway for some reason. The stealth take-down prompt routinely doesn't pop up, or doesn't behave as quickly as you'd expect it to once it does. I can't jump down ledges that it seems like Sam should be able to jump down, leaving me in a situation where I'm hanging there exposed and getting caught, when I wouldn't have ever done that if I knew that he couldn't jump down from it. I get spotted behind cover...sometimes. Others the hostiles are remarcably oblivious to my presence. There doesn't seem to be any logic from it as far as I can discern.
Obviously there is some kind of logic that governs it, and makes sense, but that really isn't good enough. The logic has to make sense to me, the player, or else I am caught dangling in the wind, at the mercy of some mysterious rule-set that I can't discern. That's not a fun game mechanic.
When it works, it's great, but damn, it's way too often that the whole thing breaks on me.
(P.S. I was getting kind of annoyed with those things in the main campaign, but the real issues came up during the wave based side mission mode, playing solo)
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