A Good Casual Gaming Experience

User Rating: 7.6 | Infernal PC
By dtkt15 | Review Date:
I was pleasantly surprised by this game. It is not as bad as some reviewers make it out to be. Game-play may be somewhat generic but it is nevertheless solid for a third person shooter. Avid FPS players may find this game boring and repetitive but for a casual gamer like me, it is entertaining. The game mostly involves "running and gunning" so to speak, interspersed with some simple puzzle solving (boss battles where you have to figure out patterns and weaknesses of the foe). What's cool is your character attains infernal powers such as teleportation that brings some variety into game-play. However, the infernal powers are primarily used for unlocking doors:( The flack this game is receiving with regards to the disruption of pace because of the need to "absorb souls", in my opinion is really unfounded. It really doesn't disrupt the pace of game-play too much and besides gives you a breather before engaging the next batch of enemies. I think it brings in some elements of strategy as well. You really do not have to absorb every single soul. It is up to your style of game-play. If you are a really cautious player then you would probably absorb every soul to get as much ammunition as possible. However, if you are a really gung-ho sort of person, occasionally absorbing some souls will suffice so as to maintain health and sufficient ammunition.

The cut scenes are also cool. The character models are nice. The environments are pretty detailed. I love the Ryan Lennox character. Too bad the story isn't really fully developed. I have to say one of the best things about this game is its graphics. I could run the game at max settings 1024 x 768 on my Pentium 4 3.0 GHz 128 MB NVidia Geforce 6600GT 1GB RAM system and everything looks awesome. It is great that a developer takes the time to optimize the graphics so that players don't have to own a ridiculously expensive system to enjoy great graphics. As for sound, sound effects are good. The voice acting is okay. The background music is pretty atmospheric. Suffice to say I like the music enough to have downloaded the music pack from gamespot. The only thing that was kind of distracting is the repetitious enemy comments. Even-though you have progressed well into a level, you can still hear the same comments like "hold your positions, don't let the enemy through" or something to that effect, repeated throughout the level.

Overall, I enjoyed playing this game very much.

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