Okay, so i bought Uncharted 2 yesterday, hoping to experience the awesome shooter everyone talks about and i was surprised when i put the disc into the disc tray just to find a basically broken (singleplayer) gameplay.
I know this will sound like a rant, but that's just how i experienced it:
1.There are 20 weapons in the game, but they just feel like 4 different ones: accurate, full auto, shotgun and explosives. I can't feel any difference outside those 4 categories.
2.Enemies who can instantly kill you are always a bad idea. Especially if they don't look much different than the rest of the bad guys and have a ton of extrahealth.
3.The "puzzles" are just boring. All you do is either jump/climb around in a linear path or take a look into your book where the solution is written down. No clues, but the complete solution to the puzzle making it an unnecessary and badly paced stop from the rest of the game.What's the point in puzzles if you don't even have to use your brain?The worst part is, that you have to take a look into the book to solve those puzzles at all, so you can't just try to figure it all out on your own.
4.Okay, so supposedly Nathan Drake is good at climbing and other acrobatic stuff.Why does he have to shake his arms like a madman everytime he jumps? Is he panicking if he's higher when he's feet aren't connected to the ground?
5.The climbing is too limited. There is just one to your destination, and i know that this is a linear game, but having really one and only path to climb along feels to restricted for a climbing action hero.
6. And 5 is especially heavy because the game does a bad job at guiding you where you have to go, so you have to randomly hug walls to find the way to the next part of the level.The game sometimes offers you a hint, but most of the time it's just telling you what you know anyway and doesn't show you the right path. It's also never sure if those bunch of bricks ahead of you are climbable or lead to your death.
7. I often didn't know why i was somewhere or why i have to go somewhere else.And that comes from a guy who didn't think Final Fantasy 13 was confusing.
8.I undestand that the story is just your normal summer blockbuster popcorn experience that you know from the cinema, but i still thought it was weak (even though it was very much like firefly). The bossfight was also kinda boring and badly designed at the same time (you have to shoot stuff around him to hurt him, but he's rapidfiring a shotgun and throwing grenades, destroying all of it in advance). What happend to him afterwards was also just imho lame after all he did.
Know that this is not a hatespeech against the game; in fact, i really like the coop mode and the competitive mode works quite well (but it's hard to screw that over, you just have to stick to the cod formula) except for the fact that it doesn't care about the level of the players.The graphics are also nice and the store does add some replay value.
It's just the singleplayer that made me feel like i just wasted 30 bucks because i even have fun with games that are considered bad and i didn't enjoy this one at all.
So, is there anyone who experienced the same or do you disagree?
I know this will sound like a rant, but that's just how i experienced it:
1.There are 20 weapons in the game, but they just feel like 4 different ones: accurate, full auto, shotgun and explosives. I can't feel any difference outside those 4 categories.
2.Enemies who can instantly kill you are always a bad idea. Especially if they don't look much different than the rest of the bad guys and have a ton of extrahealth.
3.The "puzzles" are just boring. All you do is either jump/climb around in a linear path or take a look into your book where the solution is written down. No clues, but the complete solution to the puzzle making it an unnecessary and badly paced stop from the rest of the game.What's the point in puzzles if you don't even have to use your brain?The worst part is, that you have to take a look into the book to solve those puzzles at all, so you can't just try to figure it all out on your own.
4.Okay, so supposedly Nathan Drake is good at climbing and other acrobatic stuff.Why does he have to shake his arms like a madman everytime he jumps? Is he panicking if he's higher when he's feet aren't connected to the ground?
5.The climbing is too limited. There is just one to your destination, and i know that this is a linear game, but having really one and only path to climb along feels to restricted for a climbing action hero.
6. And 5 is especially heavy because the game does a bad job at guiding you where you have to go, so you have to randomly hug walls to find the way to the next part of the level.The game sometimes offers you a hint, but most of the time it's just telling you what you know anyway and doesn't show you the right path. It's also never sure if those bunch of bricks ahead of you are climbable or lead to your death.
7. I often didn't know why i was somewhere or why i have to go somewhere else.And that comes from a guy who didn't think Final Fantasy 13 was confusing.
8.I undestand that the story is just your normal summer blockbuster popcorn experience that you know from the cinema, but i still thought it was weak (even though it was very much like firefly). The bossfight was also kinda boring and badly designed at the same time (you have to shoot stuff around him to hurt him, but he's rapidfiring a shotgun and throwing grenades, destroying all of it in advance). What happend to him afterwards was also just imho lame after all he did.
Know that this is not a hatespeech against the game; in fact, i really like the coop mode and the competitive mode works quite well (but it's hard to screw that over, you just have to stick to the cod formula) except for the fact that it doesn't care about the level of the players.The graphics are also nice and the store does add some replay value.
It's just the singleplayer that made me feel like i just wasted 30 bucks because i even have fun with games that are considered bad and i didn't enjoy this one at all.
So, is there anyone who experienced the same or do you disagree?
