Zloth
I smell a... wumpus!?
I've been playing this as a nice little release from the brutality of the XCom Long War 2 mod. It's been quite successful at that. Mostly.
Pro's:
BOOM! Boooom boom boom boom KAABLUUUYYY!! pop boom! Look no further, we've got your power fantasies right here, folks!
The grapple really encourages a lot of clever ways to kills soldiers and make more things go boom.
The physics engine is pretty good! Not awesome but certainly good enough to be fun.
If you get the mech expansion, you'll find mechs have a big gravity gun much like in Half Life 2.
Lots of content with the expansions (I got the XL version).
The game does some sort of Steam (?) login while loading. As you do various things (e.g. climb mountains via parachute & grapple), the game tracks your personal best and shows you a few people who've done better/worse. Seeing what other people have done doesn't do anything for me as they are all total strangers but I do like topping my own personal best numbers.
Start the game and it loads all the way up, including loading your latest save.
Issues:
Your latest save is actually your ONLY save. If it gets corrupted or if you forget and start a new game just to see the start again, all your progress is GONE.
While the start up is hands free, it seems to burn a lot of time doing nothing. Maybe there's something going on that I can't see but it sure looks to me like Rico sits on that beach for a good 30 seconds after the background load finishes.
The story is pretty weak, even for a pure action game.
Keyboard controls for the wingsuit... blah. Airplanes seem incredibly hard to fly, too. They might be better with controllers but I want my headshots!
Neutral but Interesting:
Checkpoint saves only. It saves any time you make meaningful progress so this isn't a big deal.
Expansion weapons are mighty powerful. Your going to need some willpower to keep from making the game too easy by using them. (I'm thinking mostly of the lightning gun which acts a bit like an infinite ammo RPG that only works outdoors - which means most everything.)
Collections are a waste of time, as near as I can tell. Yeah, you can open up free travel if you find all the little shrines but the only chance you'll ever find them all is to liberate the whole place - thus opening up free travel anyway. Even if you look up a map, the time you spend finding all the shrines is going to be more than the time you save with fast travel. Just ignore the things. (Well, except maybe cars. Maybe.)
The Steam login also lets you compete against your Steam friends… somehow. None of my Steam friends have played the game so I don't really know what the story is there.
The price is still $60 for the base game ($85 for the game + expansions) even though the game released on Nov 30, 2015! Luckily, it gets pretty deep discounts on sales.
Pro's:
BOOM! Boooom boom boom boom KAABLUUUYYY!! pop boom! Look no further, we've got your power fantasies right here, folks!
The grapple really encourages a lot of clever ways to kills soldiers and make more things go boom.
The physics engine is pretty good! Not awesome but certainly good enough to be fun.
If you get the mech expansion, you'll find mechs have a big gravity gun much like in Half Life 2.
Lots of content with the expansions (I got the XL version).
The game does some sort of Steam (?) login while loading. As you do various things (e.g. climb mountains via parachute & grapple), the game tracks your personal best and shows you a few people who've done better/worse. Seeing what other people have done doesn't do anything for me as they are all total strangers but I do like topping my own personal best numbers.
Start the game and it loads all the way up, including loading your latest save.
Issues:
Your latest save is actually your ONLY save. If it gets corrupted or if you forget and start a new game just to see the start again, all your progress is GONE.
While the start up is hands free, it seems to burn a lot of time doing nothing. Maybe there's something going on that I can't see but it sure looks to me like Rico sits on that beach for a good 30 seconds after the background load finishes.
The story is pretty weak, even for a pure action game.
Keyboard controls for the wingsuit... blah. Airplanes seem incredibly hard to fly, too. They might be better with controllers but I want my headshots!
Neutral but Interesting:
Checkpoint saves only. It saves any time you make meaningful progress so this isn't a big deal.
Expansion weapons are mighty powerful. Your going to need some willpower to keep from making the game too easy by using them. (I'm thinking mostly of the lightning gun which acts a bit like an infinite ammo RPG that only works outdoors - which means most everything.)
Collections are a waste of time, as near as I can tell. Yeah, you can open up free travel if you find all the little shrines but the only chance you'll ever find them all is to liberate the whole place - thus opening up free travel anyway. Even if you look up a map, the time you spend finding all the shrines is going to be more than the time you save with fast travel. Just ignore the things. (Well, except maybe cars. Maybe.)
The Steam login also lets you compete against your Steam friends… somehow. None of my Steam friends have played the game so I don't really know what the story is there.
The price is still $60 for the base game ($85 for the game + expansions) even though the game released on Nov 30, 2015! Luckily, it gets pretty deep discounts on sales.