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I liked the game, but was it really the classic as everyone made it out to be? Reviewers are saying that it has changed the gaming industry, and changed the way people play games.
Eh? What?
What else...the game was supposed to redefine "non-linearity." But there was a set storyline in the game (with the exception of multiple endings), and if you didn't follow the story, well, you din't have much chance of surviving. You can personalise JC, and make him proficient in skills of your choosing, but so what? It's not as if this hasn't been done before.
Plus, the action in the game sucked big time. I know it's not an action game in the vein of Serious Sam, but it is a FPS, and you have guns to shoot people with. But the action was nowhere near as fun as other FPS games, the enemy AI was nothing special, and headshots were inconsistent- sometims they worked, and sometimes they didn't. And I didn't like the triangular shards of blood either.
Lots of the maps were very basic too. Check out the map early in the game, where you step off a boat into what you are told is a city but looks nothing like it. What you see is a flat, boring attempt, with buildings and structures seemingly placed at random.
Look, I liked the game. I liked the story, the RPG elements and the stealth mode, but I can't help but scoff when reveiwers say how this game revolutionised gaming. Pu-leeeeze!
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