Bueno ya van saliendo cosillas de la review de PC Zone hasta que tengamos los scaneos
De momento los puntos buenos y malos:
PRO'S
Beautifull realised world
Great storyline, script and characters
Wonderfull use of physics
Excellent, Powerfull weapons
Fantastic sence of pacing with huge veriety of action
CON'S
No new Multiplayer (yet)
AI occasionally fails to impress
Ahora cuidado quien lea todo esto por que
CONTIENE SPOILERS aunque no todos trascendentes.
warning* contains MINOR spoilers, dont read if you want to keep information fresh when you play the game. I've included most interesting new info in spoiler tags to be safe. */warning*
I haven't seen anyone post a detailed summery on the PC Zone review yet so I will give it a shot. Theres only so much I can comment about without giving you the review so go buy this mag if you can, it really pumps up excitement for the game.
Spoiler rating: Low
New info: Quite a bit but none totally new.
New screenshots: A few.
New screenshots that are interesting:
(or ones I have forgotten seeing before)
Picture of 2 people from City17, ones on the floor dead, woman looking up, sad, great expression
Picture of a Vortigaunt shooting blue lightning in some sort of warehouse / hanger.
Spoiler rating: Low
SPOILER: (highlight to read)
Picture of DOG throwing a car, looks sweet!
Spoiler rating: High
SPOILER: (highlight to read)
Picture of a new enemy. Organic creature, big, standing on two feet with big arms and big pincer/claws to stab. Has a totempole like face
An interesting picture I cant quite work out, looks like a Ant lion on fire.
A nice but small picture of the organised resistance force (the ones in blueish clothing.
A picture of Gordon about to throw something, maybe a small drop ship, at dog on a basketball court.
Spoiler rating medium:
SPOILER: (highlight to read)
Gordon is on his airboat on a cannal aprroaching one of those cirtcular tunnel/pipes and a phat rocket is comming at him. Looks like its going to hurt.
Newish or interesting info:
They think its the best FPS ever, but more importantly the best action game ever.
The combine rifle is now called the Overwatch Pulse Rifle.
Spoiler rating: low
SPOILER: (highlight to read)
Barney calls headcrabs "face-humpers"
Alyx can take car of herself, ie you shouldnt be needed to quickload every 5 seconds because she dies.
Spoiler rating: medium
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Puzzles are back but not over used. Good ude of physics ie may have to stack bricks on a seesaw to get to an unaccessable area. Or use use floating barrels to make a makeshift bridge.
Spoiler rating: low
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Known form other reviews but you can smash manhacks against walls with the manipulator
As seen in the ravenholm bink you can fire circular blades through zombies, but whats more interesting (but rather obvious) is that you can get multiple kills with one blade. (gouranga from GTA anyone? )
Spoiler rating: low
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You can also paint the zombies white with tins of paint!
You can change difficulty levels 'on the fly'. Eg your stuck at an enemy you can change it down to easy!
Bad areas
The AI for the combine soldiers was not groundbreaking, it wasnt as impressive as the rest of the game in parts. But it still would probably equal most games.
Load times were mentioned as a bad point but I coudlnt tell if it was in sarcasm or not.
The control interface is old fasioned, basically the same as HL1. Having no 'lean' buttons was seen as a bad point too, apparently hard to live without in the later levels. (I'm sure this could be modded in within a week of release though)
And they mentioned a 'tenuous' bad point as having no themed multiplayer, however mentioned all the other titles available to buy too (DoD:S TFC:S(didnt think this was made, maybe confused with TF2?)
Spoiler rating: high
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The end was apparently quite easy which some people could view as a let down. However levels leading too it sound great.
Good parts
Basically everything else, the storyline the gameplay the attention to detail, the realistic and believable world.
They say where there have been similar things in other games such as COD, MaxPayne2 and doom3 they have beaten these at their own game.
Final Score
97% : "Quite possible the best action game ever made"
Good review, its a lot better than my rambeling comments about it, go buy it when its out in shops
Saludos