Sazar
Rest In Peace
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- 12 Apr 2002
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I played the demo last night, and was pretty disappointed. Its an absolutely awesome premise.... but the execution is horrible. Its extremely linear and if you vear from the clear path at all and end up in some back corner you see how little detail there is in the environment. Bland textures and low poly models galore.
To be honest the graphics in the main areas did not wow me that much either. Perhaps its the demo, but the textures are low rez and lack any real definition. Its obvious this is a console game that has been ruined by the limitations of inherent of being so. Its a shame really, such an awesome idea of a game ruined for such silly reasons. If they had developed it for PC first and Console second it would be been so much better. (on both platforms most likely)
*sigh*
Unfortunately I think this reoccurring theme in games wont stop anytime soon. The only way to let developers know we wont tolerate this reduced quality is to not buy the games. So, I wont be buying this game.
Fwiw, it does get better past the light-house level, which is an introduction of sorts. Also, the demo gives you a lot of tools that you otherwise have to find yourself through puzzles, so that's different.
The game doesn't look as good as some others, i.e. FEAR or HL2 (imo) because some of the textures simply look like crap. But, the water is unbelievable and the mods you can do to things like the revolver are kind of cool.
I still don't quite understand how people are giving this 100% scores. There is no way this game deserves more than 80-85%.