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Gets old by FABIO 05/21/2005, 8:39pm PDT
In a nutshell? An entire game of indoor Halo levels. Feel liks Halo. Plays like (indoor) Halo. Not as many faggot rainbow colors as Halo, though the indoor environments look a lot better. They even copied the personal shield from Halo exactly. Also like Halo, it feels like half the weapons you're firing are nerf guns (and the pistol is also a better weapon than the machine gun). No feel that you're doing any damage to anyone with the machine gun. Ammo for the better weapons is scarce. Far, far too often early on you'll run across super droids that 30 seconds of concentrated fire from your entire squad to take down. It's quicker to just stab them to death with a knife :( . At the end of level 2 you'll have to fight dozens of these while making your way to the bridge of a ship under a very tight time limit. When you come across your first SUPER super droid, your idiotic advisor goes on for a minute about how super it is before he actually tells you how to kill it WHILE YOU'RE GETTING SLAUGHTERED BY IT. Good thing that fragbait only talks to me through a hologram.

The whole orders system is pointing to pre-scripted, highlighted positions saying "take up sniper position here", or "hAxOr this terminal". CAN YOU HOLD OUT WHILE YOUR BUDDY H4X0RS THE COMPUTER?!!!

I was having fun at first, but after about an hour you come to realize you're just doing the same thing over and over as you advance from room to linear room and everything takes an entire machinegun clip to kill. I would have liked it better if weapons were more deadly, to enemies and yourself. Killing nothing but robots and lizards gets old FAST, and the bugs in the first level suck. I don't think I'm going to finish it. If I do it will be over the course of several short sessions.

Penny Arcade loved it
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        Re: Yes by William H. Hayt, Jr. 03/07/2005, 8:29am PST NEW
            Killing faceless stormtroopers got too violent NT by George Lucas 03/07/2005, 1:11pm PST NEW
                George Lucas posts on these forums? NT by William H. Hayt, Jr. 03/07/2005, 3:47pm PST NEW
                    Why would somebody make this post as me? NT by William H. Hayt, Jr. 03/07/2005, 6:41pm PST NEW
                        Perhaps they're a mewling coward NT by Senior Barborito 03/07/2005, 7:13pm PST NEW
                            Re: Perhaps they're a mewling coward by bombMexico 03/07/2005, 10:52pm PST NEW
                                Re: Perhaps they're a mewling coward by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/07/2005, 11:32pm PST NEW
                                    Re: Perhaps they're a mewling coward by Bill Dungsroman 03/09/2005, 12:33am PST NEW
                                        Re: Perhaps they're a mewling coward by bombMexico 03/09/2005, 7:59pm PST NEW
                                            Re: Perhaps they're a mewling coward by Bill Dungsroman 03/10/2005, 12:15pm PST NEW
            You forgot: BUGS in ROBOT/LIZARD TERRITORY!?!? Simply can't bel-(blown up) NT by And hey, voice acting's not too bad 03/08/2005, 8:04pm PST NEW
                The main character is voiced by the guy who played Jengo Fett in the movies by William H. Hayt, Jr. 03/08/2005, 10:56pm PST NEW
    Gets old by FABIO 05/21/2005, 8:39pm PDT NEW
        Re: Gets old by Long, Shuddering Spurt Over Druids 05/21/2005, 11:41pm PDT NEW
            Re: Gets old by FABIO 05/22/2005, 12:55am PDT NEW
                a few good points to balance this review out by FABIO 05/22/2005, 4:18am PDT NEW
                    Re: a few good points to balance this review out by Long, Shuddering Spurt Over Druids 05/22/2005, 9:11am PDT NEW
                        the next big "me too" gameplay trend by FABIO 05/23/2005, 10:23pm PDT NEW
                    another good point! by FABIO 06/02/2005, 9:21pm PDT NEW
                        Every Game Designer gets his start by remaking "Scorched Earth" NT by Mischief Maker 06/03/2005, 8:58pm PDT NEW
        Just picked it up. by Mischief Maker 01/27/2015, 7:08pm PST NEW
            Ten years! NT by Fabio 01/27/2015, 7:29pm PST NEW
            ...and I'm done. by Mischief Maker 01/28/2015, 8:09pm PST NEW
                Re: ...and I'm done. by fabio 01/29/2015, 5:51am PST NEW
 
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