I’m an experienced gamer and I remember the release of the game and the hype around it, but nevertheless, this game passed me by, and the computer was rather weak, and I didn’t really want it, to be honest.
BUT 10 years after the release of this game, the devil pulled me to get acquainted with it.
In general, my impressions are that if you were a fan of this game in 2007 and want to get nostalgic, then go ahead. But if you only decided to master it in 2019, don’t!
Firstly, there are still some problems with optimization, i.e. Even on i5, 16GB of RAM and 6GB of video, sometimes drops below 60 FPS occur, especially when the Ceph attack began, after leaving the ice dome.
Secondly, graphics. In 2007, the graphics were probably great, and as for me, the graphics are the main advantage of this game, but for 2007. Today it’s 2019 and the graphics are accordingly not impressive, but as I already said in 2007, only the graphics were an advantage of this game, now this advantage is not there.
Thirdly, despite the great potential of the suit (the main feature of the game), it is not used to its fullest; during battle, for example, as shown in the trailers, no one will turn on the power to throw barrels, etc.
I didn’t understand many of the authors’ ideas at all, for example, the game could be a good stealth game, but you are either seen far away, or you are disguised as a suit, but after a single shot... you are immediately seen far away , why is this so, I understand that energy is wasted, but not with one shot, and I understand that sneaking up from behind and how a splinter or disonord sat down in some kind of place cannot be abruptly eliminated, what’s the point then?
This game has a pseudo-open world, but it is so empty and uninteresting that in any case you will go from check point to check point, because there is nothing to explore here.
I think that if this was a corridor shooter, with small puzzles or something like that, where the player would be forced to use different abilities of the suit in order to get further, it would be many times more interesting. Otherwise, this is just a beautiful stupid joker for 2007.