So, to resurrect a not-dead-but-pushed-well-off-the-front-page topic...
... I'm less than impressed with this game. Possibly not for the reasons most people are whining about, though. I'm fine with regenerating health (finishing a fight with insufficient health to win the next one would suck), and the two-weapon limit isn't a deal-breaker either (since you can't carry much ammo, you'll be switching to whatever weapons are available at the time, so you won't end up using the same two guns throughout the game).
I'm disappointed, frankly, by the rest of the game. I found myself in a brown, murky environment, shooting at brown, murky-looking enemies. In other words, the only notable difference between the terrain and the enemies was that the latter blasted my health to zero the moment I poked my head out from around the former. It felt like a CoD game, honestly - hide behind cover, pop out, blast some enemies, hide to reload/regen, rinse, repeat. And, honestly, there's plenty of other games with that combat style... like the aforementioned CoD, which is pretty much on par with WoW on the "do not try to copy this game, because you will be mercilessly crushed" list.
Oh, and don't get me started on that gunship attack. First death: I bit the dust roughly 3 seconds after the gunship re-entered the battlefield. Second death: Tried shooting it with the convenient heavy machine gun. Then, finally, a loading screen tells me I need to use explosives. I find an RPG in a nearby storage container (that I never would have checked otherwise) and spend the entire fight, again, popping in and out of cover, shooting at the massive gunship and praying that I was actually making a dent.
Frankly? DNF is a generic FPS, in the same vein as pretty much every other generic FPS out there, except marginally inferior to the rest of them. Given that I never played the original DN3D, and my only familiarity with DNF was the steady stream of "is it out yet?" jokes that are about to become tragically obsolete, I'd like to think I'm not judging it on some unfair "Well, it had better be good after 12 years!" viewpoint. It just doesn't stand up on its own, age or not. The
only, and I really mean
only, thing DNF has going for it would be the character of Duke himself, and frankly, his forced one-liners were wearing thin even by the end of the demo.
I've uninstalled the demo, and probably wouldn't purchase the game at anything less than 75% off. Sorry, while this may be "the most anticipated game of the (last) decade", it's also one of the most mediocre games I've seen. Not totally bad, but certainly not worth money.
Oh, and there's a $10 day-one multiplayer DLC. Because we're all expecting DNF, a primarily singleplayer game, to have incredible, groundbreaking multiplayer, for which purchasing a constant stream of map-packs will be enjoyable.
(That said, I'm waiting eagerly for Yahtzee's review of it. Honestly, his review may very well be the only good thing to come from this release.
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