So it?s a sci-fi action adventure title only to be found on the Xbox, apparently you play as Derrick not the best name ever for the all action hero you?ll be portraying but still. Your confronted when you first load the disc up from the usual high end presentation you expect from a Namco, a little intro to set the mood of the world ending that type of thing.
You start off in a hospital bed, looking around wondering where the hell you are suffering from amnesia, some guy is waffling on in the background about your there last hope, and then a strange woman appears from nowhere, looks like she?s materialised from some sort of time jump shakes you around and the shoots off again. After getting to grips with the control method through a series of tests (training missions), you make your way back to your bed to rest and have some food?now the doctors have put your lunch out, you take a bit from a nice looking burger, hey hang on why?s the picture going all funny, the dirty little bastards have drugged the maccy d?s, unless it was off as usual, you fall back into bed like you?ve had too many beers. Night night you think?Then all hell breaks loose the doctor in the control room above gets shot and a load of army guys burst into your room ready to blow your brains all over the wall, and you can?t do anything due to you having that happy meal, lucky then the bird we saw earlier makes a daring entrance and quickly dispatches with the nasty men with guns, and that?s just in the first 5 minutes.
Namco have done something a little different hear as we know by incorporating hand to hand combat in this first person shooter .Gone is the weak kick from duke nukem, and rubbish crate smashing crowbar from half life. There are a few moves I have seen unto yet in my 90 mins of play, left trigger seems to do a quick jab that can be followed up with a kind of forearm smash, all so if an enemy is on the ground you can kick them, the right trigger is your more powerful hand for punching and also after a few presses let?s out a kick to the face. The usual guns come to arms as well, locking on and changing target s with a press of the A button and R trigger to unleash the fury of bullets.
Also when you walking around trying to get out of the hospital which is been over run buy the army who?s only mission is to see you with a gravestone above you rotting corpse. You basically start to hallucinate, seeing all manner of trippy things like cats that glow, to your own arm being stripped of flesh and muscle only to leave a skeletons arm in its place?Luckily that goes away, sometimes derrick brings his arm in to view to show it glowing with a lightning effect, this is to symbolise his powers returning to his weakened body. You will need you powers quickly too as your confronted my biomechanical enhanced men that dispatch you with ease.
I?m enjoying it quite a bit despite the fact I have seen a few unhappy previews, and it does all feel a little familiar, a bit half life in its general feel of scripted moments, fire through door ways and people being thrown around to your disbelief. The one thing that it used well is your general view from inside Derrick?s head, moving around as you perform task and seeing your arms flailing around in front of you as you try to grapple onto a pipe or moving up ladders.
It?s good so far, I hope it keeps on delivering?..
You start off in a hospital bed, looking around wondering where the hell you are suffering from amnesia, some guy is waffling on in the background about your there last hope, and then a strange woman appears from nowhere, looks like she?s materialised from some sort of time jump shakes you around and the shoots off again. After getting to grips with the control method through a series of tests (training missions), you make your way back to your bed to rest and have some food?now the doctors have put your lunch out, you take a bit from a nice looking burger, hey hang on why?s the picture going all funny, the dirty little bastards have drugged the maccy d?s, unless it was off as usual, you fall back into bed like you?ve had too many beers. Night night you think?Then all hell breaks loose the doctor in the control room above gets shot and a load of army guys burst into your room ready to blow your brains all over the wall, and you can?t do anything due to you having that happy meal, lucky then the bird we saw earlier makes a daring entrance and quickly dispatches with the nasty men with guns, and that?s just in the first 5 minutes.
Namco have done something a little different hear as we know by incorporating hand to hand combat in this first person shooter .Gone is the weak kick from duke nukem, and rubbish crate smashing crowbar from half life. There are a few moves I have seen unto yet in my 90 mins of play, left trigger seems to do a quick jab that can be followed up with a kind of forearm smash, all so if an enemy is on the ground you can kick them, the right trigger is your more powerful hand for punching and also after a few presses let?s out a kick to the face. The usual guns come to arms as well, locking on and changing target s with a press of the A button and R trigger to unleash the fury of bullets.
Also when you walking around trying to get out of the hospital which is been over run buy the army who?s only mission is to see you with a gravestone above you rotting corpse. You basically start to hallucinate, seeing all manner of trippy things like cats that glow, to your own arm being stripped of flesh and muscle only to leave a skeletons arm in its place?Luckily that goes away, sometimes derrick brings his arm in to view to show it glowing with a lightning effect, this is to symbolise his powers returning to his weakened body. You will need you powers quickly too as your confronted my biomechanical enhanced men that dispatch you with ease.
I?m enjoying it quite a bit despite the fact I have seen a few unhappy previews, and it does all feel a little familiar, a bit half life in its general feel of scripted moments, fire through door ways and people being thrown around to your disbelief. The one thing that it used well is your general view from inside Derrick?s head, moving around as you perform task and seeing your arms flailing around in front of you as you try to grapple onto a pipe or moving up ladders.
It?s good so far, I hope it keeps on delivering?..
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