Mass Effect
Lego Rock Band - Story Mode
Darksiders - Easy
BAYONETTA - Easy Automatic
Lego Batman
Call of Duty: Classic - Normal
Fracture - Casual
Dragon Quest: The Hand of the Heavenly Bride
Heavy Rain - Medium
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - Normal
There's been some smack talk around these parts about the difficulty level that I've been finishing some games on.. So I thought I'd man up and take this one on in Normal rather than Easy. Glad I did. Regular readers might remember that I thoroughly enjoyed the first game. So much so that I completed it twice on the bounce. This second chapter has a slightly different feel. Less comedy gold chasing and more Modern Warfare influence.
It's still a great game though. DICE's Frostbite engine returns and with it the destruction of most of the enviroment. Teamed with chunky weapons and a great sound track to the shooting end explosions it feels much less scripted and bombastic than MW2 whilst in the most part now being just as linear.
There's lots of great moments along the way with out the feeling that DICE are trying to hard. One particular highlight involves making your way down a frozen mountain.. the screen steadily whites in as you get cold meaning you have to dash between either houses or explode things to make nice warming fires.. all the way being assaulted by chummys. One of my favourite bits is using [RB] to melee attack wooden doors. You're dashing to the next house, barely alive, smash the door down, burst in, pull out an SMG and nail a couple of goons before having a quick recon and then you're off again. Exciting!
The particle effects are particularly note worthy. One mission features some desert based action and the sand whipping through and around makes for an interesting mission as you struggle to see.
Overall a pulse pounding adventure that feels exciting for the things your doing rather than for the things it's showing you. Recommended.
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