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[Felrender]

So, anybody else buy this?  I've really been enjoying it.  A good mix of Metroid-style gameplay with a rather entertaining (If a little confusing) story.

For those who haven't DLed the demo yet, after a very brief section of gameplay as some dude in the armor you get later on, you enter the shoes of Josh, who is accompanying his girlfriend/fiancee/??? Claire on a cave-climbing jaunt.  Not even 5 minutes into the game, Claire is kidnapped by some dudes in bodysuits and facemasks, and taken into the secret complex built into the cave system (This place is fucking HUGE by the way).  Josh (Who according to a cryptic flashback was trained for some sort of gummint secret service thing by his father before throwing a "I HATE YOU!" tantrum) attempts to rescue her, and trips over a plot to....uh.....overthrow some people in the U.S?  I isn't really that clear at first.

But anyway, I've been having a blast playing it, and was wondering if anyone else had bought it.

[Surgoshan]

I've heard some serious complaints about 2.5D perspective making combat unintuitive and annoying.

[ackblom12]

It happens on occasion, but once you get it down it's not really an issue at all. I think I've run into maybe one or two spots it's consistent problem. The exception to this is when you have to hit enemies that are int he background plane right behind you. But yeah, I'm not one of the better players by a long shot but I was regularly getting off quick headshots and well placed grenades pretty quickly.

So far Teh game is really fucking fantastic. It's like a strangely delicious mixture of Metroid and Metal Gear Solid. The melee takedowns are incredibly satisfying (especially once you get the suit) and having started on Insane, it is also quite challenging. The way some of the items are used, specifically the foam, are pretty fantastic and overall it's just a ton of fucking fun.

[Felrender]

Did anyone actually figure out how to knock out the shield on the big walker things?  I always just ended up saying fuck it and going with foam + grende to the back of their heads until they died.

[Ikrik]

From all the gameplay I've seen, I'm really jealous.  I would hope that it would come over to the PSN at some point...but I really, really don't think it will.  Maybe after a year or two. 

The one thing I don't really dig is the art direction.  From what I've seen it's really, really bland and the one thing I'm starting to shy away from are titles that look graphically bland.  Is there anything pretty to look at or is it just boring?

And from what I've heard it's really more of a copy of Metroid than an homage to it, although I could totally dig a new 2-D Metroid or Castlevania.

[Storm Rider]

If I recall correctly, development on this game has been funded by Microsoft, so I'd say there's pretty much no chance of it ever coming to PSN.

I beat it yesterday. Went for 100% on my first try, my time was terrible but I figure I'll get better at that later on. I turned off the blue line because that shit's for scrubs.