I was looking forward to this game and finally a copy for rent showed up in my local video store so I gave it a try. At first I really liked the game, the gore and endless killing was fun at first. Taking down a tank and helicopter with punches and kicks or later just taking it over for your own use was really cool. Also I got into the whole consuming people to take their memories and fill in the parts to Alex's story. As for replay valued I found the side missions interesting enough to keep trying them out for a little extra fun. If I had stopped about halfway thru the game I probably would write something different and that I loved the game.
But the last 1/4th of the game I
started to change my mind. The endless consuming people to keep your
health up to use devastator attacks during missions or boss fights got
monotonous. Beat on a monster or destroy some target, run away evade
the strike squads, fill back up on health and then do it again. Also
for a sandbox game there was certain fights where you really needed to
use a certain tactic or vehicle to succeed at a mission, or you would
just beat your head against a wall. I so enjoyed Red Faction where I
could go in guns blazing or drive a truck into a building or whatever.
Anyway, if that wasn't bad enough on one of the boss fights you have to
fight some weird and frustrating situations.
I was on a boss fight where you need to do a devastator attack by the boss so many times to break down her protection, with a lot of back and forth in a back alley to heal up then unleash the devastator. After this you have a short period of time to beat on on the boss to reduce her health. I got to a point where there was just a bit of protection left and then tanks in the area had shot down the last of her protection and while I was healing up I missed the opportunity to reduce her health so it starts all over with the running back and forth. There is very little enjoyment in what I was doing and it just gets worse.
Got to
the last boss battle and after a few tries I had it, forgot all about
the earlier hours I had fun with the game and back to the video store
it went! I suppose I could gave it a few more times and some might say
I just suck but I play games for fun and this was no fun.