![]() ![]() ![]() If you open a door and someone opens fire on you then ducking back behind a thin plaster wall won't help as millions of little shotguns pellets rip through your supposed cover and into you. ![]() Watch towers are made largely from wood, and while this means it's easy to dispatch snipers (you can just shoot through the wood and if the shot's on target it'll hit the guard) it's also easy for other bad guys to hit you. For a start you think about your cover a lot more. At first it isn't clear what this means, but the more you play, the more you can see it adds a whole new dimension to gameplay. What's more relevant, however, is the ballistics - put simply, there are some substances bullets will pass through and some substances they won't. There'd be nothing to see and no reason to go there but it just shows the sheer scope of the thing. The landscapes you get to wander about in are absolutely enormous if you want to, you can wander literally miles upon miles away from the base. What helps to make up for the graphics (if the animation hasn't already) are the huge playing areas and accurately modeled ballistics. Headshots are lethal, as to be expected, but some enemies have different levels of armour over their chest, so take more shots to put down. You can even graze someone's hand and they'll shake it about in pain. Shoot someone enough times in the torso and they'll kneel down, putting their hands over their stomachs before dying. Hit someone in the leg and it suddenly goes limp, the victim grabbing hold of the wound. It's not just the usual running about that's done well, but mostly when people get shot. ![]() As a contrast, the animation is utterly superb. Anything less than a P3/450 and the draw distance will be almost unacceptably low, with bits and pieces popping up out of thin air, which becomes very noticeable when you're zooming in on a distant sentry with the binoculars. Although the textures are excellent, the smoke effects look primitive and the trees look decidedly 2D, but for some reason it's very processor intensive. What isn't so good, especially for those with a lust for eye-candy, is that the graphics are disappointingly spartan. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |