all games are not created equal

Tuesday, March 24th 2009

Blog as I Play: Wanted

Hmm, game starts off with all the training, so if you've played the demo training, you're gonna have to do it all over again.  If you haven't played the demo though, the training does a good job at teaching you the game.

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Seems like this game might have an interesting storyline

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Cutscenes seem to be prerendered.  I'm a fan of ingame cutscenes because it doesn't pull you out of the action. 

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There's this weird lag with the controls...  If you are holding down the right analog to turn right, there will be a period of time where you turn slowly, then afterward, you turn at full speed.  It's kinda crappy when you just want to turn a corner quickly.

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Ooooo, just had a cool in game cutscene thing.  Think Resident Evil 4 when it prompts you for actions, but this time, you're shooting stuff.

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This game is really not meant to be played while not using cover.  The second you pop out of any cover, you start getting hit by every enemy around you and can die pretty easily.  I've already died once because I came out out cover and couldn't get back into it fast enough.

When in cover, you can suppress enemies by shooting blindly at them.  When you do this, you are able to move quickly from cover to cover in order to get a good angle on them.  But the second you come out of cover, they are no longer suppressed and start firing at you.  This can be weird when there is no next piece of cover to jump to, but you've suppressed an enemy.

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Usually I like sniping a lot, but that just wasn't that fun =(  Sniping in Call of Duty 4, now that's where it's at.  The controls made sniping very lame and kind of annoying in this game.

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Urg, perfect example of the cover thing.  I'm sitting behind cover and I noticed a bunch of bullets coming at me from the right.  None of them are hitting me though.  So I pop out of cover to look to my right and notice a guy standing right next to me.  Since I just popped out of cover, now he can hit me with all of his bullets.  Kinda proves that when you're in cover, bullets purposefully miss you but when you're not using cover, they will hit you.

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If you've seen Wanted, this game is pretty cool because it continues the story.  I'm glad they didn't just redo the movie in video game form.

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We'll I'm still playing the game and enjoying it, so that has to mean something.

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who puts explosive barrels next to cars?

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To be honest, the bullet curving doesn't get old.  It gets weird sometimes when you're aiming at someone that you can hit even with a curved bullet and you keep trying to find the angle that hits him.

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They put all these proximity mines on the ground in various levels.  They are kind of annoying too because if you aren't paying attention and you're in the zone, you may run right into one and you'll die.  They do blink red and beep though, so it's not like there aren't any warnings, unlike the proximity mines in Goldeneye.

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Wow, I just finished the game.  Quite short.  It was fun, but you definitely shouldn't buy it.  Give it a rent if you want a game to play and the ones you really want aren't there.

Graphics look a little dated and special effects like explosions are pretty simple looking.  I will have to say that it's one of the better movie adaption games I've played.  The game stays simple, but it's still enjoyable.  Just never leave cover, because you will get shot to death.