Just picked this up from my local Currys (turns out they have had it in and selling it for two days).
Hardly touched the Single player game to be honest, just dived straight in to Multiplayer:
Having picked the multiplayer option I chose to play through the two awful training missions, in which confusion seemed to be the main goals for the developers. I was a little nervous to say the least about what was in-store when i went online.
There seem to be plenty of games to choose from and 3 different modes. I went for the first in the list which was the Neutralisation mode. Here the "simple" objective is for the spy's to locate and neutralise containers.
It took a few turns just to get to grips with roughly what the hell you do, where the targets are etc. There seem to be a huge number of moves available (at least as a spy) but in the heat of the game I haven't had the time (or bottle) to try them all out.
I was surprised by just how much you really must rely on stealth. The mercs can easily kill you with a few of shots but its fairly tricky for them to get a chance. The spys move quickly once they know you are on to them and hitting them before they disappear is tricky. If you lose sight of them for a split second they are gone. If you communicate properly with your team mate you can have a great game of cat and mouse operating.
You definetely need to play through the maps a few times just to get a grip on where entrances and exits to the varying sectors are, where you can besy operate (within shadows etc) and where you will simply need to put the gun away and peg it!
Lag seems non-existent so far. There is a graphic to show connection quality when choosing a game, but working out quite what it is meant to represent is an art in itself.
Overall i am very impressed so far. I looked forward to this game but was slightly doubtful that it would be what I hoped...so far so good.
Hardly touched the Single player game to be honest, just dived straight in to Multiplayer:
Having picked the multiplayer option I chose to play through the two awful training missions, in which confusion seemed to be the main goals for the developers. I was a little nervous to say the least about what was in-store when i went online.
There seem to be plenty of games to choose from and 3 different modes. I went for the first in the list which was the Neutralisation mode. Here the "simple" objective is for the spy's to locate and neutralise containers.
It took a few turns just to get to grips with roughly what the hell you do, where the targets are etc. There seem to be a huge number of moves available (at least as a spy) but in the heat of the game I haven't had the time (or bottle) to try them all out.
I was surprised by just how much you really must rely on stealth. The mercs can easily kill you with a few of shots but its fairly tricky for them to get a chance. The spys move quickly once they know you are on to them and hitting them before they disappear is tricky. If you lose sight of them for a split second they are gone. If you communicate properly with your team mate you can have a great game of cat and mouse operating.
You definetely need to play through the maps a few times just to get a grip on where entrances and exits to the varying sectors are, where you can besy operate (within shadows etc) and where you will simply need to put the gun away and peg it!
Lag seems non-existent so far. There is a graphic to show connection quality when choosing a game, but working out quite what it is meant to represent is an art in itself.
Overall i am very impressed so far. I looked forward to this game but was slightly doubtful that it would be what I hoped...so far so good.
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