I know, I know, Animathias recently posted his Bourne Conspiracy Demo Impressions right here, on this very page. He really liked it. He thought it was too easy, but enjoyed the cinematic experience. He did have a few minor complaints, and you can read all about it right here.
Read it and weep, because he’s totally off his rocker, that demo sucks.
First off, the graphics. It’s barely passable and not even up to a Stranglehold level of detail, while Stranglehold had a crazy amount of destructibility. While some stuff, such as the battle damage on an opponent is kind of nifty, you may notice that you show no sign of damage at all, and when your opponent beats you to death, which happened a lot to me on the medium setting, Bourne simply falls flat on his back with his eyes wide open and that same expression on his face. That sucks.
Second, the hackneyed fighting. It’s basically light and hard attacks and blocks thrown in for good measure. Except one thing. It’s effing broken. For example, you can only string three attack combos or single kick attacks. Regularly, your opponent will block one or two of your three attacks in a combo. Okay, fine, but can you do that too? Nope. If your opponent hits you with the first or second attack, he’s basically gonna juggle you until his combo completes. There’s nothing you can do to block or break his string of attacks. That is just cheap. How did they compensate for this? An even cheaper “adrenaline” attack that basically wipes the floor with your opponent in one simple button press, once you’ve earned the requisite “adrenaline.” Cheap to counter cheap… Yeah, that’s great game design.
Third, the shooting. The shooting is awkward and feels… swimmy. Oh and did I mention it’s not fun? First off, you have to draw your gun before you shoot. Okay, fine, but then you shoot with the right trigger, without really aiming. You can’t zoom, unless you’re under cover and even that doesn’t work all that great, cause your opponents are all armor clad tanks… How do they fix this? Another cheap “adrenaline” one shot cutscene where you get quicktime events to kill everyone on screen. Stupid and lazy.
Finally, I never felt like I was playing a movie, unless you count the fact there’s a cut scene after every two seconds of gameplay. Dude, I just want to play the game, not this studder-step, cut scene, play, cut scene, quicktime event, cut scene crap. It’s so disjointed and disorienting. It just throws the pacing totally off. I hate this in video games. If I have to endure a cut scene, give it to me at the end of the level, not fifteen million times during a level. LET ME PLAY THE DAMN GAME ALREADY. It’s time to kill the cut scene. For real.
This game is not worthy of your 1.2 gb install. Avoid. I’m sorry, but this demo sucks.
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17 responses so far ↓
1 Dan // May 7, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Noooo! You’re Wrooooong!
I can see where you’re coming from but frankly, I loved it.
http://gameonyou.co.uk/2008/05/06/preview-bourne-conspiracy-demo/
2 Cod In The Pocket // May 7, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Thank you Dan!
You are so wrong, Lono. So wrong. I will prove you wrong. God damn it, Lono, you will be proved wrong.
(You forgot about the driving, the Bourne instinct and the fact that you are way off…)
Oh my God. Oh my dear God.
I still don’t know what to say. I’m left speechless and very bemused.
Why? =(
3 Dreaded_Porridge // May 7, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Cod in the pocket must have really, really liked this demo…
look how he’s getting all worked up over it.
off to write about how much it blows, despite not having played it.
4 Lono // May 7, 2008 at 1:36 pm
The demo sucked ass.
5 Cod In The Pocket // May 7, 2008 at 1:52 pm
@ Lono again…
How dare you embellish your opinion! Go to my blog. You will find my answer there…
6 Lono // May 7, 2008 at 1:55 pm
@Cod in the pocket: your opinion sucks, just like the demo…
LOL….
7 Cod In The Pocket // May 7, 2008 at 2:04 pm
@ Lono
That’s nice. Real nice… haha…
/insert laughing smiley here
Aw man. You crack me up sometimes Lono.
8 Lono // May 7, 2008 at 2:49 pm
all kidding aside, I really liked the ideas, but I just didn’t like the execution. The constant cut scenes just pissed me off and the combat just wasn’t that fun to me.
9 crasgcrazy // May 7, 2008 at 3:00 pm
The only game that can have a Sh** load of cutscenes interupting the action and get away with it is MGS.
10 balaamsafe // May 7, 2008 at 3:18 pm
i havent even read the comments but i know COD will be pissed
oh and i think it’s pretty fun, i like the shootouts, which i guess is a pretty good sign in a shooting game
11 Sean "Rothbart" Workman // May 7, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Check out the aliasing in that banner graphic (Specifically the line to the dialog on the right.) This game MUST suck! There are jaggies EVERYWHERE!
I’m waiting for The Talented Mr. Ripley game… screw this!
12 TOO KINGS // May 7, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I could see where it was “trying” to do something different, but it needs some serious beefing up.
13 Makidian // May 7, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Could be the real reason Matt Damon didn’t want to be involved in the game!? I’m gonna d/l it anyway cuz I’m a sucker for demos
14 Cody // May 7, 2008 at 7:33 pm
finally somebody says that cut scenes kill the gameplay. Thanks Lono!
15 Lurkero // May 7, 2008 at 9:36 pm
I knew Lono was being too nice to this game. This post sounds more like it. I still have to try out the demo for myself though.
16 HeavenlyYeti // May 8, 2008 at 10:50 am
I actually really liked it!
17 Sean P. // May 9, 2008 at 10:53 am
Yeah, WHY oh motherlicking WHY do they have cutscenes in the middle of a frigging firefight?
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