Resident Evil 4
The characters and story are awful, as comes with any Resident Evil game. The voice acting is probably the best for RE, but some of the worst for gaming in general. Also, the game wasn't scary enough. It was kind of freaky at first, but then it turned into action with no horror at all. Also, Ashley. At least give her a gun or something. She walks straight into enemies.
Call of Duty: United Offensive
The single player was... alright at best. Too short and much too hard. Especially when you compare it to Call of Duty Original, the single player is downright bland. I can think of zero criticism once it comes to the multiplayer, though. The teams were balanced, the mods were fantastic, and the community was great. I guess it could have used an integrated mic system but that's what vent, teamspeak, and Xfire are for, right?
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
No. Don't make me poke fun at this game.
Alright alright alright... the handing out of puzzles was a bit awkward at times. I mean, "I have information on what you asked me about, but first this puzzle!" doesn't make much sense, but the "Sure is a nice day outside. Say, that reminds me of a puzzle!" makes even less sense. I blame the puzzles themselves for being the problem. It's hard to create clever, unique dialogue to go along with every single puzzle... It just seems like they started the puzzles first and added the game in later.
BioShock
The gunplay was... lacking. It was most definitely not good shooter material, which doesn't make much sense why they would focus on shooting in the sequel but I digress... the horror was pretty forced and really wasn't scary at all. Mostly just smoke and mirrors with a couple of lights out. Also most of the quests turned into fetch quests near the end. It was mostly just "Find 5 pieces of this, then come back here," or "Ok, now that you're here, let's send you back to where you just were to find something you totally should have passed."
Half-Life 2
I'm... actually not sure. This game was just... good all around. Not great, just good. The shooting was good, the story was good, the puzzles were good, the characters were good, the level design was good, and the weapons were good. Nothing really all that special, yet nothing all that bad. I guess it just never left good. The Episodes were much too short and the achievements were impossible to get, if that counts. Basically, there was nothing all that wrong going for this game, just nothing going right enough to make it better.
Gears of War 2
The whole point of the game was "Grrr macho men!" blood-guts-and-guns which normally I hate, but I could look past it. That doesn't stop it from being there. The constant swearing where it didn't make sense, the enormous muscles on everyone, the
gun with a chainsaw on it, it all seemed too... childish. It was like G.I. Joe: The Game except instead of lasers and friendship, it's chainsaws and cursing. Another thing was the character models. I thought that they looked great, honestly. The level of detail on the characters was insane, as was most of the things in the game. But they all just felt like a big circle to me. I didn't feel like any of them were human. Normally I try and relate to my character and when a teammate dies, I sometimes feel sad. Except these big muscley dudes who were basically just big blocks of geometry with no emotions pretty much gave me no feelings towards them.
Left 4 Dead 2
Mainly it just gets repetitive. Now, I haven't beaten all of the campaigns on expert mode or gotten gold medals on all the survivor levels. It's just that even if I did, I would just still be playing Left 4 Dead. There's nothing really different from mode to mode and even not that much different from the first game. What is the same is fun, though, so I guess it's not all that bad.
Sorry, I think I went a little too crazy on this. I didn't mean it to be that long.
atalanta said:
SIX SNIPERS
SIX SPIES
NO MEDICS
FINAL DESTINATION
This is why I only play medic now. Every game there's too many snipers. No matter what. Even on arena mode. I mean, why do we need 5 snipers on arena? Why do we even need one spy on arena! There's no reason for anyone to play as a spy on arena. Even engies are more useful than spies.