It's interesting going back and playing older games and seeing just what was considered "good" back in the day.
GoW is no exception. It was showered with praise after launch and reviews are generally raving, especially about the graphics.
Well, today it all looks a bit lame, to be honest. The graphics are nothing special nowadays and the gameplay.... yikes! I suppose you can call this a cover-based shooter. You take a few shots, then duck into cover, then rinse and repeat. We still have these in 2013, of course, so the format is still valid.
But oh my! It's just so dull! The enemies spawn out of the ground when needed and you slowly progress forward through them. I quickly grew bored of the repetitiveness.
In addition, for a game that has been around so long, you'd think there would be fewer glitches. Your squadmates mill about aimlessly at times and I was never certain that they would follow me through doorways etc. At other times, they run ahead, leaving you little time to look around.
In one particularly glaring error, the tutorial right at the beginning borked and I was left wandering around an empty room with no way to trigger the next action sequence. Even restarting the game from scratch got the same result, so it is far from a random occurrence.
That's another thing. Trigger events. Many games have them, but GoW seems particularly inept at utilizing them. As in the example above, sometimes they just don't work and at other times your men mill about and getting them to move to, say, a door that one of them needs to open can involve a frustrating amount of running around trying to get them to "wake" up to the fact that it is their action that is needed.
For me, though, the repetitiveness is what drove me to put the game aside. Well, that and the utter lack of anything like a rationale or story behind the supposed war that is going on. Who are the Locust? Where is my character? Who are these people I'm with. What is COG? None of these things are answered. You are just thrown straight in. There's no backstory to the thing.
In short, this is a game from yesteryear. 2006 to be precise. It hasn't withstood the passage of time at all well and looks, and plays, very poorly now. I did not finish it, because it was too boring and too linear.
GoW is no exception. It was showered with praise after launch and reviews are generally raving, especially about the graphics.
Well, today it all looks a bit lame, to be honest. The graphics are nothing special nowadays and the gameplay.... yikes! I suppose you can call this a cover-based shooter. You take a few shots, then duck into cover, then rinse and repeat. We still have these in 2013, of course, so the format is still valid.
But oh my! It's just so dull! The enemies spawn out of the ground when needed and you slowly progress forward through them. I quickly grew bored of the repetitiveness.
In addition, for a game that has been around so long, you'd think there would be fewer glitches. Your squadmates mill about aimlessly at times and I was never certain that they would follow me through doorways etc. At other times, they run ahead, leaving you little time to look around.
In one particularly glaring error, the tutorial right at the beginning borked and I was left wandering around an empty room with no way to trigger the next action sequence. Even restarting the game from scratch got the same result, so it is far from a random occurrence.
That's another thing. Trigger events. Many games have them, but GoW seems particularly inept at utilizing them. As in the example above, sometimes they just don't work and at other times your men mill about and getting them to move to, say, a door that one of them needs to open can involve a frustrating amount of running around trying to get them to "wake" up to the fact that it is their action that is needed.
For me, though, the repetitiveness is what drove me to put the game aside. Well, that and the utter lack of anything like a rationale or story behind the supposed war that is going on. Who are the Locust? Where is my character? Who are these people I'm with. What is COG? None of these things are answered. You are just thrown straight in. There's no backstory to the thing.
In short, this is a game from yesteryear. 2006 to be precise. It hasn't withstood the passage of time at all well and looks, and plays, very poorly now. I did not finish it, because it was too boring and too linear.