Where to even start. With the vibrant, exotic, unprecedented environments?
The extraordinary next-but-one-gen visual fidelity?
Refreshingly open-ended, rich outdoor areas?
The ingenious foes, who render all previously established FPS tactics obsolete?
The revelatory new weapons?
The spectacular cinematic setpieces?
Or the staggering, potent story?
But why even try to choose? You can enjoy all these things now, in the Perseus Mandate demo! Man, even the title is ominous and meaningful.
P.S. I got an e-mail yesterday from someone called ‘1996′. They seem to be missing their concept of ‘offensively bland’ and were wondering if I’d seen it anywhere?
Seriously, the mind boggles. I just hope we don't see something similar with Far Cry 2.
Roman Dune: After all these years, Terminator Skynet still holds up.
Iain: Crates have never looked so good!
Riiight: You try too hard.
It's an expansion, of course it's going to have similar graphics/environments/weapons. The game is based off the same engine.
There are newer enemies with better AI and there are newer guns (assault with a scope for example).
Pentadact: I wish they were similar. FEAR had its drab spots, but nothing near the dizzying stratosphere of blocky, crudely-crafted drab that was that demo level.
Dave: Oh god I can't stop laughing in my head... Why do I want to download this demo immediately? I want to melee enemies with my stupid rifle and stare at their stupid corpses. Should I?
Section 8, District 9, Station 10, by Tom Francis: [...] I knew them only as the guys responsible for a FEAR expansion so drab I openly mocked it on this site (sorry!). But after my oat bran French toast stuffed with maple banana cream-cheese [...]
Smurfy: I have NO boner
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising | Gaming Daily - a pc gaming blog: [...] would just churn out a lazy shoddy thing, trading in on the good brand name they had accquired (Fear: Perseus Mandate anyone?). Having now got to grips and sat down with the game I can say they’ve made an [...]
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Seriously, the mind boggles. I just hope we don't see something similar with Far Cry 2.