Has anyone played it yet? What are your impressions?
Personally i have not played it, i had a couple goes on the console (i could not continue as i am not well adapted to the non-mouse targeting) and i watched almost all of the areas being blood soaked by my girlfriend. Happy days as she was terrified to no end and my occasional etra 'FX' gave a near-heart attack. I think graphics are very good, but you do have to have a decent graphics card to feel the beauty. Impressive music and sounds. Keeping you tensed all the time by playing freaky tunes that you associate with an attack by the enemy even if there is no one around. A nice variety of monsters, no overly similar beasts. A good battle system, concentrating on the quality of the shot, rather than letting you blast away with hundreds of bullets. Ability to upgrade you weaponry and suit. Random places, rooms look very different, lot's of room to explore varying from outer space to monster-infested growing rooms. Blood, gore everywhere, but the whole atmosphere was made to force you to forget the usual bloodbaths which give you yawns instead of a shot of adrenaline and leave tensed and freaked out in a manner of 'who could have done such a terrible thing?!'. Decapitated in half humans are being kept alive by the ever spreading alien-form infested surroundings, dead bodies being brought back to life to kill you in any possible manner. And you have a, though not a huge but a versatile, arsenal of pistols, saws, flamethrowers and pulse guns to blast the alliens of the orbit. But don't be fooled - just any shot will not kill them, play smart as there are designated places for saves and limited amount of bullets and med packs around. In my opinion, it is a very successful game worth the money. It has actually succeeded in making me cringe, something that has not been done in quite a few years.
Personally i have not played it, i had a couple goes on the console (i could not continue as i am not well adapted to the non-mouse targeting) and i watched almost all of the areas being blood soaked by my girlfriend. Happy days as she was terrified to no end and my occasional etra 'FX' gave a near-heart attack. I think graphics are very good, but you do have to have a decent graphics card to feel the beauty. Impressive music and sounds. Keeping you tensed all the time by playing freaky tunes that you associate with an attack by the enemy even if there is no one around. A nice variety of monsters, no overly similar beasts. A good battle system, concentrating on the quality of the shot, rather than letting you blast away with hundreds of bullets. Ability to upgrade you weaponry and suit. Random places, rooms look very different, lot's of room to explore varying from outer space to monster-infested growing rooms. Blood, gore everywhere, but the whole atmosphere was made to force you to forget the usual bloodbaths which give you yawns instead of a shot of adrenaline and leave tensed and freaked out in a manner of 'who could have done such a terrible thing?!'. Decapitated in half humans are being kept alive by the ever spreading alien-form infested surroundings, dead bodies being brought back to life to kill you in any possible manner. And you have a, though not a huge but a versatile, arsenal of pistols, saws, flamethrowers and pulse guns to blast the alliens of the orbit. But don't be fooled - just any shot will not kill them, play smart as there are designated places for saves and limited amount of bullets and med packs around. In my opinion, it is a very successful game worth the money. It has actually succeeded in making me cringe, something that has not been done in quite a few years.
