Sunday 18 March, 2007

This game has taken a simple movie tactic and created a great game out of it. The main premise of the game is that you are a vigilante in revenge. You go around trying to kill all the villains throughout the city. It is essentially a first person shooter; however the makers have added a twist. You can use your character in slow motion for a couple of seconds in order to give this movie affect. Your character can only go in slow motion for so long due to a bar that weakens as you go into slow motion. This tool is my favorite part of the game because it turns the game almost into a movie. Also, it leads to cool kill scenes such as jumping down the stairs in slow motion with a shotgun ready to shoot whatever’s at the bottom.

Wow, I must be getting old because I remember this game as 3rd person. Or does it have both? I remember that when you kicked in the bullet time...you could dive sideways and stuff (and you could see your avatar doing that). Or perhaps the XBX version is different?

Anyways...cool game.