Thursday, July 1, 2010

Where To Buy Wanted: Weapons of Fate


I have to say all these negative reviews are relative to the game being full price.
I for one watched the movie and didn't care either way about it but I really enjoyed the developer Grin's previous game Bionic Commando. Everything you read is true from the other reviews but I feel many of those reviews don't have the correct prospective.

For around ten dollars, you get a really fun, action packed shooter. From the beginning, the game throws you in the mix of a huge firefight, going rooftop to rooftop gunning people down left and right.The tutorials are simple and to the point and flows well with the narrative showing Wesley's change from a normal guy to a trained killer.

The game is short but some of the reviews claiming to have beat this in three hours are probably playing on easy. Wanted is everything a third person shooter should be with style to spare. Unlike games like Gears of War where you have to hid behind cover and slowly advance, here you'll find yourself zipping from cover to cover and sliding over obstacles in such a smooth natural way it's like chaining together combos in Tekken. The controls are spot on and the curved bullets, slow mo,and death grabs are a blast and make you feel like a complete assassin badass. So, yeah, the game is short but it's one great roller coaster ride and I have to say that I really enjoyed playing on the Killer mode to unlock more achievments.

On the negative side, the cut scenes are kinda ugly despite the regular gameplay looking really good, it's a shame they didn't do these with the in game models instead of this prerendered nonsense. While the game is fun, the freshness wears off and the last half of the game could have added something to make everything less rinse and repeat. The one gameplay change they do have is two gun turret sections and a few sniper shootouts. The sniper sections are alright but the stationary gun sections are lame and it took me a couple tries to realize you have to look up to avoid the bullets coming at you. There's also a completely awesome airplane shoot out which was really gripping and ridiculous, I just wish there were more set pieces like this.

All I can say is that I didn't particularly care for the movie, but the cool style and breezy gameplay won me over. I took me a couple days to play through this and what's here is really good. For the price on Amazon, you really can't go wrong. You can literally buy this for the price of a downloadable game and the airplane sequence is worth the price of admission alone.Get more detail about Wanted: Weapons of Fate.

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