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Originally posted by johnny:
I have that game for quite some time now, although i haven't looked into it yet. But this is the first negative review i heard, most people were quite optimistic about it. Was it THAT bad then ?
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Have you ever tried Playing Unreal or Quake 3, and using the console comand that made you see your charcter?
This game is like that, since it
is what it is. Characters avatars are not really supported. The camera angle, the speed of movements, the crosshair, all of it is made for a first person view and it isn't changed. So the character in the middle of the screen is just a nuisance. Even the movement of the avatar is bad. The way he stand and sidestep is very limited. He's not really animated. When you are playing Quake III, you don't mind if the ennemy avatar only have 4 movement animations, but when you move that character, it look horrible.
They make you jump around on platforms, but the way the camera is set behind you and following the crosshair instead of the avatar, you can't really see where you are aiming your feet. It's also very hard to aim with your lightsaber, since because the way the camera is set, it's hard to see the distance between you and the ennemy in melee.
In FPS, you only see the gun and you move fast. They didn't change that movement speed, and the character's animations are not made for that, so his animation and his movement speed seem wrong. The legs don't seem to be moving fast enough for the character's speed. The speed of the character is also way beyound any human speed, and they seem to be floating above the ground as well.
The engine isn't really made to be interacted with in 3d. In a shooter you shoot stuff, and walk on weapons to pick the up. So that's all you can really do in this game. It look really silly having to make your character stand on a medpack or weapon for him to get it. No pickup animation or nothing. Your feet touch the item, and it disseapear.
I don't know what they did, but the characters avatar are horrible. Even the characters that were in previous game of that series look worse than before.
[ 08-25-2004, 10:56 AM: Message edited by: Luvian ]