The expected game modes are present, but with only five maps and gameplay that rarely ventures beyond mindless run-and-gun screeching, there's no real need to check it out.Īnd then there's the question of morality. Given such shortcomings, its no surprise that multiplayer is a waste of time. It's all horribly imbalanced, lurching between insultingly easy and frustratingly unfair with no real purpose. Die, and you can expect to play a huge tediously scripted chunk of the level again. There's no save option, and checkpoints are placed horribly far apart. The only times the game catches you out is when enemies spawn right behind you - there's no map or radar - and its then you discover how the developers have attempted to make up for the lack of tactical challenge. Your health recharges in about three seconds, so it's possible to just run around, back-pedalling and blasting away without ever really being in any danger. While this worked in a duck-and-cover game like Gears, in a game where your only defensive posture is crouching it renders the game incredibly easy. The game uses the same health system as Gears of War, so you can soak up damage until the screen starts to turn red, and then you die. Your next objective is always marked by a floating white icon, so you just head for that, shoot everything in your way.and that's it. You're funnelled forwards by pre-determined shoot-outs against enemies that only spawn when you reach a certain point.
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Levels are linear to a fault, full of doors that never open, buildings with nothing inside and passages that lead nowhere. Arriving after a period of innovation and excitement for the genre, when stacked up against BioShock, Resistance: Fall of Man, The Orange Box, Halo 3.Payback is left looking hilariously outdated. Such quirks might be acceptable if the game itself was a cavalcade of entertainment, but it's possibly the blandest console shooter in years. Textures are clumsily painted in as you approach, and the frame rate frequently drops for no apparent reason, even when you're crawling through a dark tunnel with no enemies in sight. Ditto for the torsos and scenery that fall through the floor and thrash about like a goldfish on the carpet.
Half the time, some rogue arm or leg will become embedded in the scenery and stick there, vibrating like a tuning fork forever. Even the multitude of body parts splashing about the place are not exempt from the vagaries of this juddering physics simulation. Playing the same level again later, the exact same thing happened. When the smoke cleared, the truck was still there. I lobbed a grenade at it, and the whole thing exploded. There's a bit right near the start of the very first level where a truck filled with enemies races past you and comes to a stop around the corner. Anything more complex is either ignored (witness the impressive array of indestructible wooden fences) or simply breaks the graphics engine. If something explodes near a crate or barrel, the crate or barrel sails through the air. This shoddy craftsmanship is carried across to the physics model on the whole. While the initial hilarity may be high, pay even the slightest bit of attention to the graphical detail or animation quality and an incredibly crude mechanism is revealed. I mean, the head literally disappears and is replaced with a "spurting neck" polygon model. Shoot someone in the head, and it vanishes. Every leg, every arm, blows off in the exact same way. See, the damage model doesn't seem to have changed since 2000. And, as in the previous games, this gives the proceedings a certain ludicrous amusement factor. As in the previous games, your enemies are apparently made of plasticine and held together with sticky tape since they fly to pieces at the first hint of a bullet. Once again, the only reason people will talk about is.the gore. A similarly average sequel followed in 2002 and now, apropos of nothing, here's a third instalment. It wasn't bad, as such things go, but there were clearly better games around and they justifiably attracted most of the attention. A product of the late '90s FPS boom, the selling point of the original was that you could shoot the limbs off enemies using an arsenal of lovingly recreated weaponry. The Soldier of Fortune games have clung to the slender thread of infamy for one reason only - gore.