redface on 4/5/2009 at 19:29
Wow, what a game!
In one of the missions, you have to escape from a hospital and kill your way through a batallion of heavily armed nazis, using just your knife and hiding in the dark (while wearing a WHITE dress), because you can't pick up their weapons. As if that was not enough, the objective is to "Find weapons" and said weapons is a rifle exactly the same the nazis are using. Except it's in a locker. :weird:
Thus a note to the authors: things like this (and there are plenty of them) are turning your game into a joke, try to think before you implement something. Or don't try to sell the game as "realistic".
gunsmoke on 5/5/2009 at 11:51
Anyone else notice the Deadly Shadows-inspired atomic blue violet frob shader and loot glint?
vasanx on 6/5/2009 at 16:49
i just wanted to share my very positive experience with this game.
to put it simply, it's effin great.
I dont wanna badmouth the naysayers. it's their right to hate the game.
I just wanna send a shoutout to all those who love the game. You know who you are.
But let me quickly say this though, Velvet Assassin is not without its flaws.
For starters, the Morphine stuff is the stupidest thing they could have done. I read bout how she being in a coma in the hospital and gettin morphine tru I.V. and that the missions are basically a recollection of her memories.
So we are playing in her memory and when the I.V. releases morphine every hour or somethin, it screws up the memory somehow, and the present day, bed ridden, nightie clad Violette enters into a dream like state where she relives the memory and...(let me catch my breath first....ok).... and because it's a dream, she can do anythin she wants and that's why everythin freezes and, she gets to stab the baddies in the face, from the front.
You know wat? I still don't get it even after reading what i've written. In fact, I dont want to get it.
Because this brings us to the second stupidest thing in the game.
Using the memory thing ala Assassin Creed. It was as damaging to this game as it was to Assassin Creed (AS) itself.
AS cud have been so much better if all of that futuristic memory bullsh*t was
removed and you simply played in that time period.
Same thing here. Why can't we just play in real time from the get go? Show the hospital bed scene only in the last level. Is that so hard to do?
Neways, my workaround for this is simple. Don't use Morphine. Just pretend they dont exist. It made the game so much more enjoyable.
Wow, for a guy who love this game i sure came off as a hater, didnt I? That's how good this game is.
Now, to address the good stuff in this game.
1. Awesome atmosphere.
2. Haunting score.
3. Kick ass gameplay.
You heard me. Kick ass gameplay. Provided, you get that this is a Third Person Sneaker (TPS).
I have no problem with the shooting myself. The silencer equipped Colt is a blast to use.
Awesome Moment 1: While aiming at the baddie who's lookin the other way, whistle so that he'll turn to face you for a quick shot in the face.
The sound of the bullet punching a hole through a person's head has never been this satisfying.
There are a lot of ways to dispatch the enemies.
You can:
a) Stab/Slit em (very entertaining to watch the different techniques)
b) Electrocute them while they're standing in a water puddle
c) Poison em by shooting nearby toxic gas barrels
d) Blow em by shooting your standard exploding barrels
e) Set em on fire by shootin oil puddles
f) Set em on fire directly using a flare gun
g) Shooting flamethrower's gas tank
h) Pull the pin off of the grenade attached to the baddie's belt
i) And of course shootin em
(Why cant u throw the knife at em and then yank it out? That would have been cool)
This is not a game where you hide in the shadows all day long, wait for them to turn their back and then stab em. Okay, i was lyin. You do that alot. But when you do get your guns, armor and ammo rite, things can get chunky, real quick.
I went mental when i got my hands on the shotgun. Just blasted the bejesus out of everyone in one level.
The thing that makes this game cool is how u strategize the killing.
Awesome Moment 2: I had to off a guy, quickly drag his body around a big, circular thing so that the other patrolling guard doesnt see the body. Drop, kill the guard i was avoiding. Break a fuse box to cut off the lights. Baddies spots me. Lead them to toxic gas barrel, wear my gas mask, shoot the barrel from cover to poison the two baddies.
There. This is like Thief's female descendant, except you use a dagger instead of a blackjack. You break fuse boxes instead of dousing torches with your water arrow.
Too bad there's no gas powered magnetic grapple gun ala Batman Begins for Violette to scale the walls. That wud have been the rope arrow equivalent by the way.
Violette shud have had packets of moss to carry with her too. It's annoyin to follow a guy from far and to miss a kill. Why cant she just get close silently and for the last few feet be allowed to run and, as the baddie turns to face her, she stabs his face. Sure, her cover wud have been blown but that wud make the game much more challenging.
Too bad she cant block an attack like Garrett wud with his sword. the baddie kills her almost always by knocking her with the rifle's butt. They shud have allowed some basic fighting moves, at least to deflect an attack so that she could run and hide again.
Despite everything, this game is still awesome for one simple fact.
It reminded me of Thief. I never thought that day would come. This is like the perfect opening act for Thief 4. (It is coming right?)
Bjossi on 6/5/2009 at 19:14
Quote Posted by vasanx
I dont wanna badmouth the naysayers. it's their right to hate the game.
'Hate' is such a strong word. . .
gunsmoke on 6/5/2009 at 19:23
Close the borders of ThiefGen. The monkees are loose again.
mothra on 7/5/2009 at 15:00
alot of games reminded me of Thief. were they any good ? hmmm, if, then certainly not because of that connection. still waiting for this to get cheap.
DarthEnder on 10/5/2009 at 12:28
Does the game let you save anywhere?
redface on 10/5/2009 at 12:45
Nope, checkpoints, and they are rather rare.
stormbringer_951 on 13/5/2009 at 09:59
Anyone read about RPS's take on it? It's pretty damn disgusting of the developers to make a game based on a woman who was raped and executed by the Nazis, and when her relatives have specifically (sp?) forbid them form using her image. It's kinda disrespectful.
