Oh
man this game is hella fun. Really great hack and slash action. It's
sorta like... Max Payne but instead of guns you've got adamantium
claws. Every once in a while you'll pull off a crazy move like slicing
a guy's torso in half or whatnot and it'll go into slow mo while the
blood splatters everywhere. Never fails to make me laugh. And it's all
optimized really well for a PC port. This was made by Raven, so that's
to be expected, those guys have been working on PC games for ages. It's
just so cool seeing yourself heal back up from getting blown up, with
skin growing over exposed ribs and muscle.
The only problem I've noticed so far involves the platforming. It's
not really done well, and this one section in particular is super
frustrating because you can't quicksave. Games like Assassin's Creed
and Prince of Persia really show how bad and outdated this platforming
is. But most of the game isn't platforming, it's usually killing
soldiers in really brutal ways with your claws. My favorite move is
leap, it's a really fast lock-on ability that you can perform from 3 to
40 feet. Just lock on a guy, leap and knock him over, jump up and dive
down on him again to kill him, then leap onto the next guy, and rinse
and repeat. You can do this to wipe out entire squads at a time. That
never gets old.
