5つ星のうち3.0Despite the quality issues, still a pretty fun game...
2010年8月7日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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The game, like many other reviewers have noted, is marred by quality issues. When I first inserted the game into my PS3, it asked me to run an update, so I thought perhaps there had been an update put out that took care of some of the quality issues, but unfortunately that's not the case. The game was released in 2007 and despite this being 2010 the game still has the same problems with frame rate speed. I didn't notice this issue so much on the 1st level in Iraq but it was VERY noticeable during most of the rest of the game-play. I did get used to it, however, and a tip for you is when you see the word "loading..." come up on the screen, which it will often and at odd places during the game-play, just stop what you are doing. The game completely froze up on me twice, and I had to reboot it - fortunately I didn't lose anything. But I figured out that if you keep mashing the shoot button or the driving button, etc. while the game is trying to load it will at times cause it to freeze up completely.
Another issue is the driving mechanics for the vehicles. The only vehicle you drive is a Humvee, and it's only on a couple of stages. I typically like driving vehicles in games, it's a lot of fun when the controls are set up properly, but in this game it is by far the worst I've ever seen. It takes considerable time and counter-intuitiveness to keep the damn Humvee on the road!
Despite the games flaws, it is pretty fun to play. Though I did begin to find it quite unimaginative during the later stages of the game. Despite what you are facing, you are pretty much using the same weapons, or jumping on a turret and just mowing down aliens. This was fun in the early stages, but it gets boring after a few hours of game play. And you are basically facing the same aliens/mutants in the second half of the game that you faced in the first half.
The graphics are so-so, nothing that is really impressive, in fact it has more of a PS2 quality to it. But I found many of the environments very well done, though they are not very interactive.
The sound quality is pretty bad. For some reason, at certain stages especially during a boss battle it seemed, the audio will sound as if it is coming out of one channel more strongly than another channel, so it sounds like the balance is out of whack.
I didn't really have a problem with the AI as some others have mentioned. But you can't really expect them to do the bulk of the fighting, they are support only. One of the combat techniques the game recommends is to let your team go in first, then you "mop-up" the rest. But on many stages this doesn't work - the team will take forever to kill something and die and have to respawn. It's much quicker if you just do the killing yourself! And use them as support.
This is probably the shortest play-time of this type of game I've ever played. I estimate it at about 7.5 hours of play time - I played for an average of 1 to 2 hours each night, and beat the game in 5 days. It's also one of the easiest games I've ever played (though I didn't try it on the hardest level) with the only real challenges being the helicopter that you must shoot down with a sniper rifle (about the midpoint of the game) and the final boss, but that one only took me 3 tries, so not really that hard.
Interestingly, the game didn't really remind me much of the Area 51 game that was made for the PS2 (I liked that game much better), this game reminded me more of the old SOCOM games, like SOCOM 3, though you are in FPS. This game has much more of a military-action/shooter feel to it, whereas the Area 51 game more of a Sci Fi feel to it. And your opponents in the game aren't really aliens, but rather mutants - you will understand as the story unfolds.
I'm being a little generous with the 3-stars and overall 6 stars out of 10. Without a doubt this is the most buggy game I've ever played. But despite the significant quality issues, the game is pretty decent overall and I will probably replay some of the early stages for fun.