Superfrog
Madruk
Ein paar Eindrücke von Leuten, die die Review-Copy zwecks Test schon durchgezockt haben: Gibt wohl ein sehr überraschendes Ende (siehe Spoilertag - nur lesen, wenn ihr nicht vorhabt, SR durchzuzocken) und - alle Achtung - gegenüber der Demo *deutlich* verbesserte Framerate:
Zitat von aku:jiki:First off: you are not allowed to play around in the world after you finish the story. It just ends and you're tossed out into the main menu. Make sure you save after the 2nd to last mission when you play it, since it's a tough one!
Second, the story ending is so stupid and infuriating, I just have to type the anger off. Read if you want to laugh at the stupidity and aren't planning to play the game:
You end up on a boat with a politician who plans to kill you. Just when you think you're about to bust some heads, the ****ing boat blows to shit with everybody on it. Then you get to see small flashes of what "really happened" with all the other characters. You see your mentor and closest friend Julius walk away from the boat, implying he was the one who planted the bomb and had actually been playing your character from the beginning. You see another of your closest friends Troy holding a cop badge, implying he was a cop all along.
And the game doesn't end with your character coming out of the water after the credits or something like that. It just ends. That's it, the entire game was you getting played and fooled. Everybody used you and it turns out that all the characters you ended up liking throughout the game were really your enemies.
How is this supposed to be a fun way to end a $60 and 20+ hour investment? It isn't tragic or ironic, and it doesn't make me feel anything but annoyance. It feels like I just wasted 20 hours of my life, since it feels like it was all for nothing. Is this supposed to "teach us a lesson"? "Crime doesn't pay"? Don't make a game like this if that's your message!
Zitat von aku:jiki:It's actually pretty fun. It's basic compared to GTASA. No planes, no bikes, no parachuting, no...you get the drift. It's GTA3: Next-Gen Update.
It does have the funniest minigame of the year, though! It's called "insurance fraud". You are told to get to a specific intersection and while there, LT and RT are used to dive in front of cars. You want to get hit and be thrown as high and far as possible to take as much damage as possible. Getting hit by cops or ambulances yields even bigger bonuses. It's great, I could (and have!) do just that for hours.
This is what I'm talking about. I wasn't expecting anything from the story, even though it works in the context of the game. This ending comes from nowhere and is just "WTF?". I guess maybe they alluded to the fact thatbut...it didn't really work out, if that was their plan.Troy is a cop, by making him disagree with all the mass-murdering and blatantly illegal choices Julius makes
Zitat von aku:jiki:The voice acting is really great in the full game. Tons of good names in there.
I really don't see where people get the "ugly" complaint. Seriously, it's vastly improved over GTASA. Nobody expected the graphics of Fight Night Round 3 in this, did they? I mean, a 50 square feet room is quite a lot easier to render than a whole city. The full version has a very polished framerate compared to the demo as well. It only ever really chops to unplayability when you're on the elevated highway, due to the draw distance and the massive city beneath you.
One thing that's gonna get this game some press, though, is the completely overdone "controversy". The radio ads throw in completely random and needless uses of the "f-word" (like the Lik-a-Chik chain has a "**** It Bucket" for sale, har har), and worse...old, white men yell "stupid nigger!" sometimes when you drive past them. My character isn't even black! (I made an indian in a cowboy hat, if anyone cares.)
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=114194Zitat von Kobold:I liked the ending a lot. Great game, great ending, great performances of the different characters and awesome storytelling and gameplay.
He's entitled to not like it, I don't agree however.
This will sell very well in Europe and the US, and THQ will be raking in the cash with this game.
