It’s new and fun, but I’m not enthralled. The plot is lame, the voice acting is just passable, and the learning curve is extremely steep. The combat is good fun, but if you suck at FPS’s like I do, you’ll find yourself often spinning around trying to find the guy who’s hitting you. It’s difficult to tell the difference between hostiles and civilians without getting close enough for them to spot you.
This is my 3-hour playtime assessment. It’s engaging enough that I’ll keep playing it, but hopefully some surprise plot twist or something will grab me more than it currently has.
I played through the first mission… and then I went crawling back to Xcom!
I’ll come back to it, but it’s infidelity not worth the $60 price tag, the $35 I payed is about right. I do think I’ll enjoy playing through it during the holidays.
Damn. That sucks. I find it surprising that IGN and Gamespot rated this game so highly given everyone’s reaction here. Generally speaking when they rate a game this highly, its a very good game, at least to me. I can’t think of another instance where they raved about a game like this only to have it be pretty disappointing.
I’ll be the naysayer on the hatred. I got it, and I’m liking it so far. The graphics are good enough - I’m not picky on that part. As long as they don’t look horribly dated I’m fine with it. Controls are about the same as any game nowadays, better than some.
I like the story, and the powers are pretty cool. Blinking around is fun. I’m trying to stealth-knock out and/or kill rather than fight, and it’s not a fast-paced game when you do that (which is a plus for me; if I wanted an FPS, I’d’ve bought an FPS). I’m currently lurking about on the rooftops doing jump-assassinations, and that’s WAY fun.
So far, I agree with Whack-a-Mole in that Thief did stealth better, but this game does stealth OK. You can definitely sneak around to get through things, at least in the first few hours that I’ve played.
That’s why I bought it, actually. Its metacritic score is (was?) an 89 and all the game mags I generally enjoy rated the game highly. But, honestly, its stealth system is less robust than the Thief games, its ‘non lethal’ and ‘powers’ systems pretty much is the most recent Deus Ex game with a different skin or mildly different powers, and while its atmosphere sure is, erm, atmospheric, it just doesn’t bring the whole package together. (Lethal combat is okay but, again, nothing all that impressive).
The game is certainly serviceable. It’s a decent game. But it’s not much more than decent and it certainly doesn’t merit the full 60 dollar price tag.
Yeah, just beat the game… play time was okay on a stealth/non-lethal playthrough. Probably roughly 15-20 hours. Which I guess isn’t bad for single player games these days, but it’s no Skyrim. I feel… unfulfilled. I should’ve spent the 60 bucks on amaretto and ginger ale.
On around 21 hours of playtime. I like this game less the more I play it. I’m trying to kill as few people as possible, but it’s become far more frustrating than fun. I think I just might hack my way through the rest of the game since the combat is the only part I really have any fun with.
The plot is uninteresting, as are the characters. Maybe the Assassin’s Creed and Metal Gear Solid series have ruined me for other stealth-based games.
I’ll be selling this back to GameStop after I beat it.
So I finally got around to playing this. I’m nearly done with a stealth-based run, and have so far enjoyed it quite a bit. I’ll probably replay it with an aggressive run in the spring.
BTW, did anyone else think that Granny Rags looks and sounds an awful lot like Susan Sarandon as soon as you met her? And damn if it isn’t her!
Okay, I just picked this up used, and am playing it on the Xbox 360… is there seriously not a way to increase the text size? Because this is unplayable.
Never finished this game, and I think my title WAY oversold this thing. It ain’t no Bioshock. Thief and Deus Ex feel insulted being used in the same sentence too.
The world had a lot of promise, but it hang, like a painting in the background. Lifeless and still. I Didn’t care about it or anyone in it enough to bother going much further than the second or third mission.
I believe these are the same guys working on the Thief reboot, which has me a bit worried.
My guess is that you have a non-HD TV? I had the same problem on a lot of XBOX games before I upgraded to HD. If that’s the case for you, then no, there is absolutely nothing you to do to increase the text size.
But I have to wonder if it’s a setting or something, because when I Googled it I expected it to be the first suggestion, you know? That’s what usually happens if something’s an issue for a lot of people. It can’t be that I’m that old.