Friday 9 February, 2007

I was warned by the guy at Blockbuster about the many frustrations he found with this game. I decided to go ahead and rent it anyway to get a feel for it. Well, I can see where the guy got the sentiment from. I too, became frustrated very quickly. I'll say right now, this isn't a game for anyone with a small TV. You need a giant TV these days to be able to see anything these days... I wasn't expecting anything great since they didn't put much effort in the splash screen when you tuned in to the Disk Channel on the Wii before booting the game. As I started off I quickly found that the most I'll be doing is walking very slowly. That gets very boring to me after doing it for most of the game, so this game can easily make a gamer lose interest in it. It's also not very friendly to new players. The training messages you get only last for a very short time, with no chance to finish reading what it says. There are also no visual hints on where to quietly position yourself to snap someone's neck. It also seems that everywhere you turn you get caught by someone. So far I'm more than a half hour into what seems to be half of a small level, a good portion of it just dying at every turn. It just doesn't seem all that interesting, and more complicated than it's worth. I'm also totally clueless over what the storyline is trying to unfold because I can't even finish a "training" stage. I'll see what a few more minutes of this will do.

~Sol~

I heard rumors that they just tried to shoehorn this game onto the Wii without spending any time on making the most of the controls. Would you say that's true?

I played through the game on 360 and it was okay. I ended up selling the game because it had technical issues as well as annoyances like the ones you describe. I hear the PC version is even worse.

It's a shame--this game has a great story and gameplay, but it's bogged down by so many annoyances and bugs that I could never recommend it to anyone.