It’s one of the best-looking games ever, and it knows how to bring the spectacle.
Just for you,Ĭrysis 2 is an astounding technical achievement. Bulletstorm also daringly tosses aside standard multiplayer modes for purely co-op play that feels more original than Crysis 2’s (still fantastic) pastiche of existing ideas. Instead of simply giving you powers to run around and shoot guys in different ways, Bulletstorm rethinks the shooting itself, shaking up the very foundation of the shooter genre. The nanosuit blends concepts we’ve seen before into something that makes the shooter exhilarating, but the game as a whole doesn’t take risks the way Bulletstorm does. We also like the more complex nanosuit of the original, if only for the super-duper sprinting, which was a joy to use.īulletstorm ? No. The sequel, despite being an amazing visual achievement for reaching multiple platforms, doesn’t really look better than the original, and we much prefer the tropical island setting of Crysis. The second game’s multiplayer is more refined, more energetic, and more robust, but not by a huge margin. Crysis 2’s multiplayer is genuinely different.Ĭrysis ? No. Homefront’s multiplayer is a lot of fun, but it doesn’t do anything vastly different from its competitors. Crysis 2 is permissive, inviting you to play any way you want, while Homefront wants you to play one specific way. It tells a story with more emotional weight, but its gameplay doesn’t stand out from any other modern military shooter. Homefront’s campaign is shorter, more restrictive, and doesn’t offer the fun of the nanosuit. We guess it wants to motivate you to win, but it’s the wrong way to go about it. On top of this, if your team loses a round, you’ll hear some random commander tell you how terrible you were – it’s like the game specifically wants you to have as little fun as possible when you’re losing.
This is a small complaint, but look at it from the perspective of new or casual players – it’s an utterly unfriendly environment that pounds your ineptitude home by insulting you if you die a lot. And the player who gets the kill doesn’t even get to enjoy hearing their own character doing the trash-talking – it’s there merely to make the loser feel bad.
This is not a taunt controlled by the player, but rather something the game just throws in there to anger and humiliate you when you get killed – you’ll hear your opponent talk trash along the lines of “How do you like that, motherfucker” or “Fuck you, asshole!” Yes, the game implements automated immature 12-year-old trash-talking as a feature. The lamest aspect of multiplayer is something minor in effect but we find abhorrent in its principle: automatic taunting, which occurs sometimes when you die. This means you have to occupy yourself with a potentially dangerous activity if you want that killstreak, and it also means that snipers can’t just sit back and rake in killstreaks, which is a great design decision.Ībove: So, what's that guy on the left doing? Looking for change? Tying his shoe? Still hung-over? See, just getting a kill doesn’t automatically count toward your streak – you have to run over to the person’s body and pick up the glowing dog tag on the ground. There’s another element that makes getting killstreaks just slightly more difficult and risky than in other games – dog tags. These Bonuses also change depending on the map instead of being customized by the player, so for instance on one map the Bonuses might be Maximum Radar (3 kills), Radar Jamming (5 kills), and Orbital Strike (7 kills). There are just three of them, known as Support Bonuses, for killstreaks of three, five, and seven, and only the last one has any potential for actual direct kills. While there are killstreak rewards in the multiplayer, they are not nearly at the ridiculous degree as Modern Warfare – you won’t see any rewards past a killstreak of seven.
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