Just finished it, final thoughts: It's really really fucking fun first person shooter, weapons feel great and all the ammo types offer a good sense of variety. There's a weapon for every situation and enemy, and mixing and matching various weapon combos adds an extra layer of complexity and keeps the running and gunning super fun. The world looks absolutely beautiful, with technical issues aside and mostly fixed, theres still some blurry textures here and there but the art and level design make for some really nice environments and even with all of the shooting taking place in small corridors, it all looks fantastic and extremely well detailed. Now with all the good stuff out of the way, I'll get on with the not so good. Everything else in this game, and I mean EVERYTHING, is paper thin. The story isn't interesting, all of the side missions are really short and simple, every mini game is just a shallow distraction, even the card game some people have praised which I will say is the most interesting minigame, is still very simple. All you're doing with the card game is as you explore and finish the various missions around the world, you will find cards among the other types of loot you pick up, the cards you collect are more powerful than the ones you picked up earlier, eventually you can just load you deck the most powerful cards you got, and just wipe out the opponent on any difficulty, simple, oh and there are only 2 card players in the game, thats it... TWO. Which leads to my next point, the world, it is beautifully realized, but it is very very small. I won't lay it out for you but it is underwhelming just how small it ends up being. Then there's the driving. I'll just say its competent, just like everything else besides the shooting, it works and it can be fun, but the races, which there are a handful of types of races to play, are all relatively short and easy. Again, they are fun to play, I enjoyed the rocket races, but its just a dumbed down kart game. I was a little frustrated at the end because I didn't end up finishing all the races. I got too far close to the end to where the racing circuit was shut down and I couldn't revert to an old save, so be mindful of that. And that's really all there is. The shooting stuff manages to carry the game through to the end, a very anti climatic end, yea the ending sucks too. Even going in I was expecting a relatively not great ending, and I was still underwhelmed. So... worth $60? Fuck no, but it is definitely worth playing though. It's a great game to look at and play on a newly purchased or built system. I would recommend it at $30 which I'm sure it'll head down to on Steam eventually. Then maybe someone can play the coop stuff on there with me.
