Well, I had been waiting for this game for a while.
Pre-ordered offa Steam®, and I'm going to tell you right now...
it was worth every cent.
Now, granted I'm running a dream machine for a gaming rig, but this game looked absolutely fantastic on my two 9800's in SLI. The details are great for the models, and while there has been come complaints about the windows on the buildings looking like decals, I think the game is awesome.
So far gameplay feels like Woverine: Origins ( the new wolverine).. a very similiar feel to the leveling, etc... but beyond that it's amazing beyond words. Just getting around the city itself is entertaining.. you can do all kinds of acrobatic moves and the leaps.. oh man.. it's like Spiderman could be, only without the webs - and that doesn't suck, either.
People react to you... appropriately. If your walking around just moving through a crowd, you'll push people aside. Some will not mind, some will complain... and some will complain LOUDLY.
Almost everything is destructable to a degree... you can pick up cars, air-conditioning units from the tops of buildings, all kinds of things.
I captured about two minutes and thirty seconds of said gameplay. The city, New York, is completely rendered, so it's "free reign". You can go everywhere, and in fact, it's encouraged. Mini-games like collecting the "Landmark" tokens to unlock things, hints, and other objects help keep the game refreshing, while events gan garner you gold, silver and bronze metals. You can replay an event over and over again until your plain sick of it, or satisfied with your score.
Here's the file for the gameplay video - it's pretty big, so I redid it in 1280 X 800 - still, in DivX format.. you can see the detail. This is gameplay from when I had been playing the game roughly an hour or so... and was in "Free Reign" mode, just collecting Landmarks.
Original - 1620 X 1080 (379 MB)Smaller - 1280 X 800 (256MB)Neither have sound.
I really would recommend this game to anyone who would like a good single player smashem up go everywhere Neo - like superhero game... this one's it.
I'll report more as I play through it. Probably make some more videos - I just FRAPS my game play as I go along, and then convert it down to a smaller codec.
Feel free to post your thoughts !
Regards,
Topic: -= Prototype =- An initial Review (Read 2597 times)