it means that you cannot see where you are going!

if they had made it a bit more like Prince of Persia then i think it would b amazing….

As far as linearity goes, I would argue that in a free running type game the onus is on them to make it as absolutely flexible and non-linear as possible without breaking their plotting. Sort of Crackdown levels of ‘I can basically get to anywhere by climbing wherever I want’ (only that was a slightly broken illusion because a lot of areas were obviously boxed off), mixed with Valve’s knack for hiding the bleeding obvious fact that you’re on-rails on a linear narrative.

That’s not going to be easy.

Combat would be funny: each player repeatedly knocking the shotgun out of the other’s hands.

after grabbing the package the runner has to get to a specified drop of point (selected so that the runnner will get intercepted but people cant camp points), then they have to avoid the other runners and make it to this point,

say a runner has grabbed the package, they’re running along a pipe when another player leaps from a crane dragging the player to a roof below, where a duel breaks out, the runner is neutralised and the attacker picks up the case and starts running.

OK – rephrasing:

And when are we taking bets on the plot twist that the sister has actually not been taken but joined the enemy and become sympathetic to their side?

I think I might get away with that…

More seriously, the body-awareness evidenced in the trailers is the most appealing part for me. The sense of motion is great, created cleverly by the camera movement, and by being able to constantly see your arms and legs interacting with the environment.

But the difficulty with platforming in first person is that you can’t always see where your feet are, which makes gauging jumps difficult. The environmental colour system seems like a reasonable attempt to counter this, but it’s hard to see how much direct manual control they’ll allow the player. It could end up with the Assasins’ Creed system of ‘hold the freerunning button’ and ‘press direction’.

They are going to be linear, constrained levels, Dante. But apparently with multiple routes. You can see a lot of level furniture in the footage that resembles the stuff she climbs on, slips under, tightropes across, etc. So it’s not hard to imagine how all that could be usable.

The big reveal will be that her sister has in fact had her legs removed, and her upper half has been grafted onto the body of a huge alien, which you will have to defeat in a dramatic boss encounter, just like the end of Prey.

… spoilers for Prey there people.

I still don’t see how this is going to work. First person platforming is horribly frustrating in every game that has ever involved it (granted I suck at platformers, but I’m sure I’m right on this one). So I can only imagine that this will be either a) equally frustrating or b) so on rails it’s essentially just moving around normally but with prettier animations.

http://e3.gamespot.com/story.html?sid=6194054&pid=941951&om_act=convert&om_clk=multimodule&tag=multimodule;picks;title;2