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I know what your thinking. Another MoH game. Another WWII shooter in a sea of WWII shooters. Your absolutely right. This is just a poor man's version of Call of Duty.
Graphics? Decent at best but not as good as I expected, even from a demo.
Sound? Decent ambient audio and background weapons fire, players weapons sound wimpy and tin canned.
Gameplay? Cookie cutter WWII FPS. Whoop-dee-do you get to parachute into the battlefield, just give me a damn map with spawn points to choose from and I'd get to playing faster.
Will I buy it? Well this is only a demo and I'll grant it that. Maybe if they completely revamp all of the areas I listed above, choose a different war and drop to price to $10, they may have a winner. Otherwise if I need a WWII fix, nothing beats Call of Duty.
So I played the Bioshock demo this morning. All the buzz surrounding it's release on XBL I figured I'd give it a go. Maybe, just maybe, my initial impression of the game was inaccurate.
It started out well enough. The plane crash, the exploration of the "visitor center" that leads to the city of "Rapture". I even had fun for the first 20 minutes or so. Some of the better points of this game are it's interaction with the environment, the music and the graphics/sound are both solid.
After rooting through garbage cans and corpses, killing a couple dozen cookie-cutter enemies and playing around with different weapons it started to bore me. The hacking and exploration of refuse and rubble filled areas got a bit repetitive. When the initial reaction from the environment and setting wore off it became just another FPS. A pity to anyone who had hoped that this would retain any part of the System Shock games, they'll be sadly disappointed.
No doubt this game will sell well to the game-starved 360 crowd who've waited all summer for a big title to hit store shelves. And no doubt reviewers will give it good scores, but I don't think it'll earn any GOTY awards. I'll of course give the game another chance once it comes out, I'm sure someone I know will buy it, but right now it's a bargain-binner. Overall the demo gets a solid 7.5 out of me, mostly for the soundtrack and presentation.
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