thebhoy
08-30-2006, 10:13 PM
First things first....... this game has some great graphics!! The engine is superb in it's efficiency.. even on a mid range spec I'm able to run the demo as high as it goes at 1280 x 1240. superb sense of speed and somre really nicely put together vehicles.
The Missions seem thoroughly enjoyable and when combined with the "sand box game play" it has everything the GTA series has, but a much much better looking environment even if at this stage it is a little sparse. I'll note some suggestions here in the hope a dev has a wee look.
Wheres crouch? it isn't listed in the controls.. I assume you'll add it in.. make sure you can move while crouching and give it some purpose, ie actually be able to take cover rather than crouching and the top of your head being shot over said cover. Regardless, sort a crouch toggle out, it's very standard stuff here :)
jumping while strafing shouldn't produce JUMP,LAND,ROLL... it should either be automatically set to roll; (and rolling BTW, should actually help you avoid bullets) or rolling should be mapped to a button of its own so you can still jump and strafe.
The vehicle controls are very very sensitive. I realise I'm using a keyboard and not analogue, but at least give us a slider in the options so we can tweak it as we see fit because its broken as it is in the demo. They need reworking.
Seeing through the floor while jumping out of a vehicle should be corrected, I realise its just a POV problem and it could be fixed very easily by automatically elevating the camera angle buy a few degrees.. again regardless its an issue.
Guys, the animation is sub par. its scheduled for an autumn release, so I don't see drastic changes being made to it but regardless, its not great at all.. add some more frames in there or something.
Change the sound that's made when you pick up a gun, it's annoying and totally unrealistic.. just make it a gun rattle/ammo box rattle sound which is used in thousands of other games to very good effect.. hearing that bleep kinda shatters the illusion... well for me anyway :)
Aiming seems to be quite poor for some reason its difficult to get the cross hair over the target at times, maybe lower the field of view a little, make objects seem a little fatter, it will help the overall feel of the game. Also, a selection of crosshairs and crosshair sizes/colors is always a great idea... ALWAYS give us the option to be able to change the hud if we dont like it, not just the quite frankly pitiful hud options included in the demo.
Please, for the love of god incorporate more hand to hand stuff, hitting with the but of your gun and being able to knock people out from behind if sneaking. And by sneaking I mean crouch toggled and the walk toggle held in, not some WoW rogue esque stealth that so many other games try to do... like Hitman for instance.. :P
Basically, tighten the controls, tighten the camera, spruce up the animation and give us more things to be able to do with the character in this absolutely fabulous world that's been created.. the sandbox game play is nothing without being able to interact with it in as many ways as possible.. otherwise all you got is True Crime, and we all know how much that sucked.
I might be sounding like I didn't enjoy the demo which couldn't be further from the truth, I absolutely loved it, but if the game came out with the current probems, I certainly wouldn't buy it.
Please don't be another Soldner :)
Oh and the premise of the storyline is original, but not that appealing.
The Missions seem thoroughly enjoyable and when combined with the "sand box game play" it has everything the GTA series has, but a much much better looking environment even if at this stage it is a little sparse. I'll note some suggestions here in the hope a dev has a wee look.
Wheres crouch? it isn't listed in the controls.. I assume you'll add it in.. make sure you can move while crouching and give it some purpose, ie actually be able to take cover rather than crouching and the top of your head being shot over said cover. Regardless, sort a crouch toggle out, it's very standard stuff here :)
jumping while strafing shouldn't produce JUMP,LAND,ROLL... it should either be automatically set to roll; (and rolling BTW, should actually help you avoid bullets) or rolling should be mapped to a button of its own so you can still jump and strafe.
The vehicle controls are very very sensitive. I realise I'm using a keyboard and not analogue, but at least give us a slider in the options so we can tweak it as we see fit because its broken as it is in the demo. They need reworking.
Seeing through the floor while jumping out of a vehicle should be corrected, I realise its just a POV problem and it could be fixed very easily by automatically elevating the camera angle buy a few degrees.. again regardless its an issue.
Guys, the animation is sub par. its scheduled for an autumn release, so I don't see drastic changes being made to it but regardless, its not great at all.. add some more frames in there or something.
Change the sound that's made when you pick up a gun, it's annoying and totally unrealistic.. just make it a gun rattle/ammo box rattle sound which is used in thousands of other games to very good effect.. hearing that bleep kinda shatters the illusion... well for me anyway :)
Aiming seems to be quite poor for some reason its difficult to get the cross hair over the target at times, maybe lower the field of view a little, make objects seem a little fatter, it will help the overall feel of the game. Also, a selection of crosshairs and crosshair sizes/colors is always a great idea... ALWAYS give us the option to be able to change the hud if we dont like it, not just the quite frankly pitiful hud options included in the demo.
Please, for the love of god incorporate more hand to hand stuff, hitting with the but of your gun and being able to knock people out from behind if sneaking. And by sneaking I mean crouch toggled and the walk toggle held in, not some WoW rogue esque stealth that so many other games try to do... like Hitman for instance.. :P
Basically, tighten the controls, tighten the camera, spruce up the animation and give us more things to be able to do with the character in this absolutely fabulous world that's been created.. the sandbox game play is nothing without being able to interact with it in as many ways as possible.. otherwise all you got is True Crime, and we all know how much that sucked.
I might be sounding like I didn't enjoy the demo which couldn't be further from the truth, I absolutely loved it, but if the game came out with the current probems, I certainly wouldn't buy it.
Please don't be another Soldner :)
Oh and the premise of the storyline is original, but not that appealing.