Megatron Wolf wrote:Just finished the game and it was a disappointment, the story was great and all but the game itself was pretty lame. First off it was shorter than WFC, WFC took me 12 hours to finish the first time FoC took 8, theres no replay value (dont even feel like playing it again just to play it again), playing as bruticus was horrible and slowed down the pacing of the game way to much and grimlock was no better, switching up game play in each chapter was a good idea but you have such little time with each character that by the time you get the hang of it your off to the next guy, plus you spend such little time with each character you dont get attached to them at all, some of the voice acting choices were horrible (shockwave for example), no exploration & most areas seemed cramped, combat didnt feel as good as it did in WFC (passable but not perfect), then tack on the glitches and lame multiplayer and i feel it was a waste of $60. The first game felt fluid and like they had a plan this one felt like they didnt know what they wanted to do, its like FoC has ADD or something. Very let down with this game & now im going to be very very weary about buying games from HMS. Maybe they should just stick to writing cause that seems to be what they're good at. Knew i should've got darksiders 2 or dragons dogma.
It's amazing how different views about the same product can be. This game brought me out of my game funk. I haven't played a game start-to-finish since 1997 or 1998, whenever Resident Evil 2 came out for the PS1. Some of the very things that you mentioned that you disliked were things that really brought me into this. The choices of characters to move the stories along was one of my favorite parts about the game. The thought that went into making each chapter a unique character driven story that was part of a much larger and epic storyline really made me feel like I was part of the story ... that I was an integral part of moving the story forward. I couldn't wait to get to the next chapter.
Big gaming sites gave it positive reviews as well ...
Just goes to show that you can't please everyone.