Had a quick go on MP at lunchtime, plus the initial 20 mins of single player.
Firstly, the horses looks freaking awesome (I'm playing 360) - muscles on their legs rippling when they walk. Hardly important, but it certainly stood out.
The first 20 mins were just story building, so nothing has really happened yet to report, but the cutscenes are decent and the voice acting was pretty immersive.
MP, I played "grab the bag" and "gang shootout". Load times seemed a bit on the long side. There's the usual vote to skip stuff.
The shootout is pretty funny, with the first few seconds comprising of a traditional line-up and just shooting people right in front of you. On respawn you get to run around picking people off, hiding behind stuff and exploring buildings for guns. The map seems to show everyone most of the time (haven't quite worked that out yet).
The bag game I preferred, with you slowing down massively when you carry the randomly-spawned heavy bags back to your base, protected by your team.
Everything is silky smooth, but I found tracking moving targets a little tricky and the gun everyone kept on using to kill me seemed a bit ott - but there's a levelling system like CoD, so I presume more fun to come.
I also wondered around a few of the areas in free-roam. Nice grass. Then I got killed by a bear. Unprovoked I tell ya! Bears these days. I shot down a buzzard and attempted to mount climb a cactus. All the things you usually do, just to see if you can. The areas seem pretty enormous, with infinite draw distance - if you can see it, you can go to it.
Firstly, the horses looks freaking awesome (I'm playing 360) - muscles on their legs rippling when they walk. Hardly important, but it certainly stood out.
The first 20 mins were just story building, so nothing has really happened yet to report, but the cutscenes are decent and the voice acting was pretty immersive.
MP, I played "grab the bag" and "gang shootout". Load times seemed a bit on the long side. There's the usual vote to skip stuff.
The shootout is pretty funny, with the first few seconds comprising of a traditional line-up and just shooting people right in front of you. On respawn you get to run around picking people off, hiding behind stuff and exploring buildings for guns. The map seems to show everyone most of the time (haven't quite worked that out yet).
The bag game I preferred, with you slowing down massively when you carry the randomly-spawned heavy bags back to your base, protected by your team.
Everything is silky smooth, but I found tracking moving targets a little tricky and the gun everyone kept on using to kill me seemed a bit ott - but there's a levelling system like CoD, so I presume more fun to come.
I also wondered around a few of the areas in free-roam. Nice grass. Then I got killed by a bear. Unprovoked I tell ya! Bears these days. I shot down a buzzard and attempted to mount climb a cactus. All the things you usually do, just to see if you can. The areas seem pretty enormous, with infinite draw distance - if you can see it, you can go to it.
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