Manwe on 10/6/2009 at 18:46
Quote Posted by warcrow
First impressions!It starts you off with every power unlocked for tutorial purposes, and then throws way too many informational dialog boxes up at you. It makes you not want to care! Meanwhile you'll basically experienceing sensory overload from the craziness of the extreme jumping, tank throwing, the jumping infestation of bloody mutants and crashing helicopters.
Suddenly everything gets taken away from you and they begin to develop the character while...teaching you more stuff!
I feel like they should have completely removed the into tutorial level and just let the player slowly learn abilities as they unlock them like most games in this genre (which, to be fair, the also do)--but just choose the latter.
Lots of games do that really. Hell I played tomb raider underworld yesterday and it did just that. I think they do that to put the player directly in the action. They put you in the most exciting situation of the game where you have all your powers and where they can teach you all the important moves, then after a brief glimpse of what's awaiting you later, it flashes back to the beginning. Just another one of those stupid trends...
Koki on 11/6/2009 at 13:02
Quote Posted by warcrow
First impressions!Are these based on retail version or what you played at E3?
I'm interested. GTA + superpowers looks like fun(even more so because the devs didn't skip on gore), but I wonder how they handled the story in such open environment. (No, I never played GTA for more than 20 minutes)
Also, the moment I saw "pdenton" I logged out and tried to log in with "chameleon".
warcrow on 11/6/2009 at 14:29
Quote Posted by Manwe
Lots of games do that really. Hell I played tomb raider underworld yesterday and it did just that. I think they do that to put the player directly in the action. They put you in the most exciting situation of the game where you have all your powers and where they can teach you all the important moves, then after a brief glimpse of what's awaiting you later, it flashes back to the beginning. Just another one of those stupid trends...
I played TR:U and (if I'm remembering correctly) the degree of being inundated by helpful hints if fairly diferent with Prototype being much more--it just goes one and on.
warcrow on 11/6/2009 at 14:30
Quote Posted by Koki
Are these based on retail version or what you played at E3?
I'm interested. GTA + superpowers looks like fun(even more so because the devs didn't skip on gore), but I wonder how they handled the story in such open environment. (No, I never played GTA for more than 20 minutes)
Also, the moment I saw "pdenton" I logged out and tried to log in with "chameleon".
Both, but really I've spend much more time with the full retail version.
june gloom on 11/6/2009 at 19:14
It looks interesting but it's not really something I'll be picking up with money being what it is.
Matthew on 11/6/2009 at 19:23
Savygamer is showing offers for the PC version at around £25, so I might pick it up once my initial Sims burst is over.
Dresden on 12/6/2009 at 20:16
I got this today and I'm loving it so far. I've never played the Hulk game, so it may be that it's because this type of game is new to me.
Good:
* Movement is really fluid. You can run, jump huge distances, glide, and you character will autojump over smaller things like low fences and cars.
* It's fun to feel like a tank. People get knocked down when you run into them and you don't even slow down. Cars get damaged when they run into you.
* Disguises are fun, though the stealth aspect isn't very refined. Guards can see you jump huge distances and not get very suspicious.
* Nice amount of skills and upgrades.
* Consuming people for memories is fun.
Bad:
* Too much reliance on collectibles/events (like checkpoint running, kill people in a time limit, etc) to pad the game.
* Upgrades are too easy to get. You don't have to specialize at all. They may as well give them to you when they're unlocked.
* Using a wheel to select powers is awful and slow with the mouse. I really wish they'd changed the PC version to be able to select things like HL2's categorized drop boxes.
Ugly:
* Graphics are pretty so-so on max settings. They're fine for a 3rd person game except in certain cutscenes where everything is close up. Then they start getting blurry. The game does look nice at times though.
Mr. K. on 15/6/2009 at 06:37
I don't know what game are you people playing, mine looks gorgeous, and it's a riot to play. It gets repetitive after a couple of hours of uninterrupted playing, but I just save & quit then and some time later I feel like playing again. This is a game to just have some chuckles with the absolutely over the top mayhem you can cause. I mean, you can run up the Empire State Building, elbow drop a tank, kill 50 mutants with the shockwave, throw the tank carcass to a helicopter to down it and surf away down the street using a human body as the surfboard. SEXCELLENT!
50-60$ is a bit too much for it, 30$ would be awesome for what it is.
Dresden on 15/6/2009 at 06:45
Quote Posted by Mr. K.
I don't know what game are you people playing, mine looks gorgeous, and it's a riot to play. It gets repetitive after a couple of hours of uninterrupted playing, but I just save & quit then and some time later I feel like playing again. This is a game to just have some chuckles with the absolutely over the top mayhem you can cause. I mean, you can run up the Empire State Building, elbow drop a tank, kill 50 mutants with the shockwave, throw the tank carcass to a helicopter to down it and surf away down the street using a human body as the surfboard. SEXCELLENT!
50-60$ is a bit too much for it, 30$ would be awesome for what it is.
Do you have the PC version? I couldn't figure out how to do the bodysurf.
