fett on 7/4/2006 at 21:02

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Hmmm...possibly on a console I could see that, but interface was the main thing I don't like about the SC games. Thief's interface is pretty simple - weapons on one side, tools on the other. There were many times in SC where a particular tool would be called for (or I was supposed to know which one I needed) and I would have no clue what it was called, how it worked, or how to utilize it. I went back to the training vids a million times and usually even that didn't help.

On the other hand, they spent alot of time in those vids explaining how to do certain moves and use certain tools that only came in handy once or twice the entire game, and even then it was very contrived (i.e. you could jump up and suspend yourself between two walls in a hallway, but I'll be damned if there were more than two hallways narrow enough to allow for this). I thought the inconsistency was horrible as well - you could do certain moves in the places where they designers intended, but you'd see an identically designed area and were unable to perform the same move.

I felt like I was being led by hand through all the supposedly non-linear maps, as well as being forced to solve problems and dispatch enemies in the way the designers intended rather than being given options.

Victoria's_'Friend' on 8/4/2006 at 00:33

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Don't forget the hitman series.

The first one is pretty near impossible, but the second one Silent Assasin, and third one, Hitman Contracts, in particular, are good. In Contracts there's even a mansion level remnicent of Gervasius's place in T2. Multiple infiltration routes, objective gameplay, it's all here. I can't wait for Hitman: Blood Money. Apparently there's a level where you're supposed to dress up as Giovanni from that Early Modern Play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore' and murder Sozanzo for the love of your incestous Sister. In front of the audience! Of course, they'll think its part of the play, but the death would be real.

Martek on 8/4/2006 at 02:01

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I enoyed the first Hitman's, but bailed out on Contract near the start. I can't stand that freakaziod "bloodbath" level (whatever it's called), and never got past it.

Martek

Victoria's_'Friend' on 8/4/2006 at 22:51

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The disguise element works well, for the most anyway. Occasionally a civillian will get jumpy even if you're wearing a guard outfit or something. It must be the baldness that spooks them.

Apparently someone (Eli Roth or Paul Anderson) was going to make a movie of hitman, with Vin Diesel as no.47. This would be awful if it actually happened.

Jarkko Ranta on 11/4/2006 at 11:03

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Vin Diesel would go just fine. He is as Avarage Joe as Schwarzenegger, so no-one would ever suspect anything if he was taffing around near some crime syndicate's head quarters... If we are lucky we get that Uwe Ball (or whoever filmed AiTD) to film it up.