AlternatePFG said:
The Amazing Tea Alligator said:
- Shattered Horizon (Before the firepower lets-go-be-like-COD-now-and-ruin-what-it-is-to-be-shattered-and-have-a-horizon update)
I never could get into it, to be honest. It was kind of disorienting for me. What did the Firepower add?
It's not what the firepower added (an SMG, a shotgun, a sniper, a melee weapon, a grenade launching pistol, and a regular pistol to the original armory of wait for it..... one assault rifle), but what it removed.
Shattered Horizon was never about the gunplay. Don't get me wrong - it was good, but that wasn't the focus. The focus was about the movement, and trying to wrap your head around 3d combat. It was awesome. There was never the question of "can I shoot this guy dead before he shoots me dead?" but rather "what's the most badass angle I can get this guy from?".
One of my favourite things about SH was the Assault Rifle. Lore-wise it was perfect - you're astronauts so it makes sense to condense the weapons required into just one gun. The weapon could snipe (not too well, as to avoid making the game a snipe fest), launch grenades (of smoke, blast, and emp variety), had a bayonet in it (these guys are wearing space suits, so this is one of the few games where this makes sense), and lastly it could... um... assault... rifle.
The firepower update killed that. Brutally. THE most saddest event in the gaming world.