Dont own Dead Space.. YET. But as for Far Cry 2, it was a great surprise TBH.
I liked:
- True open gameworld, you can go where you want.
- Performance vs. quality factor is great on the Dunia engine, nothing like Crysis, it runs smoothly.
- Huge amounts of weapons, something like 30+ or so
- Sounds are great, especially the weapons sound very cool. Not the Hollywood stuff, but more of a "mechanic" sounds, yet ballsy.
- Gore. You see your enemies screaming and crying on the ground, trying to get up after a short burst from your gun, and of course, you can go and shoot them to the head with a colt 1911 if you feel like it. :p Also, when your health bar goes down so you have only one bar remaining, you see a special animation when you press the heal button (this varies from fixing dislocated arm/leg, pulling a piece of branch out of your body, digging out a bullet etc. all with nice a crizzly sound effects.).
- Immersion. Your head is "locked" to your body all the time, there's no teleportation to a vehicle, you actually climb on board. Same for everything you can think of except for sleeping.
- Lot to do, the gameworld is huge and it gets even bigger when you progress. There's lots of side missions to keep you busy aswell as the mainstory missions, where you usually have 2 options to choose from.
- FIRE! Ooooh, it's so darn cool!
Things I didnt like:
- THE FRICKING MALARIA!!! When the game starts, you have malaria. You need to make special missions when you're out of pills to get more, or else you will start getting blurry screen etc. and finally you pass out and are carried to the nearest doctor (who by the way doesnt even give you more pills!)
- Can be boring at times, the missions are the usual "Go to the other side of the map, kill one guy and come back".
That's what I can remember atm. I'm sure Stabiz will come shortly to give his views on it.
I'll get back to you prolly tomorrow about FO3 & DS. *whistles innocently*
