This game had so much potential. COULD have been the greatest FPS ever. But theres a few things Ubisoft Montreal can't do. Make good gameplay, have a decent storyline, have likeable character with good voice acting, have realistic AI, price it right, and tell the truth. When the videos were around people thought it would be as revolutionary as Half-Life or Crysis in terms of realism, how wrong they were. The game is a major dissapointment.
ok, i'll give you the good things:
-African setting is great and huge, more on that later.
-Gunfights are enjoyable
-Fire mechanics are great, except for the fact that the fire doesn't emit light
-Buddy save system is good
-Self Healing is great. and when i say self healing i mean pulling metal fragments out of your leg, bullets out of your arm, snapping your arm back into place etc.
-Jackal part of the storyline is intriguing
-nice selection of guns, albeit some are under/overpowered while in multiplayer
-Map Editor is excellent
-You hold a map in your hand
-good immersive elements and animations.
Now for the bad...:
- Guard posts respawn infinetely after you leave for 2 minutes
-Storyline is awful/ non-existent-missions are painfully repetitive, just kill this, pick up that, blow up this, drive that, threaten this, blow up that etc.
-Assassination missions have the exact same voice over, for every one.
-You have to drive to the other end of the map where there are no Bus stops nearby for fast-travel every single time you do a mission.
-Weapons degrade way too quickly
-Enemies' weapons are always close to breaking, when you kill them while they are holding a brand new weapon, it will instantly degrade into rusted trash, unless if you are holding the weapon in your inventory.
-Completely a linear game, despite what you may think.
-Your choices have no effect on the outcome of anything, everything is scripted for it to go one way.
-No planes.
-Overuse of invisible walls.
-hundreds of mountains funnel you into annoying guard posts and where you don't want to go.
-complete lack of wide open spaces, which is what this Africa should've been. Everyone knows there aren't that many mountains in 50 square km's of Africa.
-Malaria element becomes an annoyance. especially when your doing something important and you faint because you haven't used Malaria pills in a while and you get thrown back to the centre of the map.
-There is no warning sign of you fainting while in the desert.
-Buddies are not very likeable, talk too fast
-Graphics for people aren't that good.
-no allies on the field out of safe zones.
-EVERYONE WANTS TO KILL YOU.
-they detect you as the enemy from a mile away even if you're in one of their attack trucks and shoot RPG's at you
.-AI can kill you from a mile away with an AK-47
-killing someone with a Machete alert all the guards, even though its meant to be a sneak attack
-Guards take too many bullets to die, even when wearing no shirts.
-African setting is empty and pointless, it could have just been 10 square miles of vastly populated africa instead.
-There are no civilians.
-there is no abundance of animals, just a few here and there, they flop over if you shoot them in the *** once, if you bump them with your car etc.-sneaking isn't as great as it should be
- No animal predators.
and here are the Multiplayer BAD POINTS
-guns such as the AS50(50 cal. sniper rifle) and MGL-40(a 4 shot grenade launcher with a scope, wtf???) are completely overpowered and you WILL LOSE is you don't have one.
-you always get kicked out after playing one ranked game.
-If you're too good and kill the host too much he'll most probably kick you of the server, which makes you , lose ALL your points from that game.
-too long of a delay for respawns.
-no friends list
the way to revive a teamate is hard and complicated, and leaves your character open to die.
-NO WEAPON PICKUPS.
- class system is bad and broken.
i know this is a fairly to completely negative review, but its the truth. BTW the single player is fairly enjoyable.
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