Damn it, I’m getting excited abut Deus Ex 3. A dangerous game, I’d rather not be part of the army of enraged fans if this game turns out to be bad. The video above shows the first level, and the multiple ways it can be completed. I have a few issues, mainly with the modern aspects, such as switching from first to third-person (Makes me feel dizzy) and how useable objects glow when you’re in range to activate them. But it’s silly to complain about things like that. Of course it’s going to be modern, people would also complain if it behaves like games did 10 years ago. Gotta move with the times, right?
Apart from that, it certainly looks very Deus Ex. Let’s just hope this isn’t going to be a ‘Red Faction’ situation, where the first level has all these destroyable walls, but the rest are all dull military bases with solid metal walls. Me and other fans of the series will get angry, but it’s entirely possible we will anyway. I doubt there’s a power in the world that’ll stop a Deus Ex fan from getting mad at a sequel if they want to get mad at it.
Anything else? Well, I was never terribly interested in the game anyway, with it being yet another crazy American war fantasy, but Homefront is apparently about four hours long. And this is coming from people who stayed back to smell the roses (These roses being the amazing graphics). I’d like to say this is been creeping up on us for years, that we’ve reached some kind of new low, a new standard for the length of the average FPS. But I’m pretty sure there were complaints about MoH: Spearhead only being four hours long too, so maybe not.
Maybe this wouldn’t be so bad if reports of the actual gameplay were a little better than they are. From what I can tell, it’s trumps even Black Ops for the ‘noninteractive movie game’ feel. Seriously, if that’s what you want to do, then why are you here? Go make a movie.
Moving on, I’ve finished Dragon Age 2. Yes, I was rather disappointed by the way it’s been consolized, but what’s with all the Mass Effect jokes? Sure, the main character is voiced now, but that’s really all they took from it. But I’ve been hearing some ridiculous things (All from people who’ve never played it) about it being a shooter now, about it having fewer or even no RPG elements, or just that it’s an action game now. People, I’ve finished it, and I can tell you that it really isn’t much different from Origins. Yes, the demo was bad. They filled it with action, assuming that was what people wanted from their god-damned role-playing game. But that was the demo, the full game is much, much better than that. Besides, Bioware have never been all that good at demos and trailers, you all know that.
I have two complants: the city and surrounding areas are the only places you ever visit. It got a little tiring towards the end. That complaint is rather minor though. My biggest one is the waves of respawning enemies, which I feel removes a lot of the taactics from the game. You petrify the mage, and then send your fighters over to pick off the archers, and then about a million armoured knights storm in from behind and mess everything up. I can’t plan for that unless I restart the fight and prepare for them. That annoyed me, and it was a definite step backwards from Origins.
Don’t get me wrong, though, it’s an awesome game. It just has whole news flaws to make up for the flaws in Origins which it fixed.
News:
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Mass Effect 2 DLC coming soon.
