How can you hate something before trying it? It doesn't make sense at all. It basically proves my point on your attitude towards the game beforehand.
I saw it, and the style
it was going for wasn't for me look at it this way several men don't like chick flicks they really hate them because of the nonsensical love or whatever that takes place in them, vice versa several females really hate action movies and even find some of the really epic ones hair brained.
So before giving my impressions I clearly stated this genre thing isn't for me, a game starting with a stripper on the pole gave an immediate bad taste. The art style, the language and to a lesser extent even the music didn't feel right.
Some of the acoustic synth tunes were nice but I prefer the adrenaline pumping music of the AM1 canon.
Sure, it's your opinion, everybody is entitled to their opinion (read: hide behind it), but it won't make your opinion a valid one given the circumstances.
My opinion is a valid one, representing the mindset of someone such as myself. There are people in this world who may curse socially but not be comfortable with a game that has a 30 swears per minuite. This is just one example there are several things in the game that are repulsive to a certain demographic instead of getting offensive try to see the other side.
I'm not asking for "objective reviews", I'm asking for fairness. If you gave a certain game a fair chance how can you not give this one a chance? You're just shouting all your hatred towards House of the Dead Overkill barely bothering with the positive aspects of the game.
I tried very hard to acknowledge good things, first of all you need to understand what I have posted is a first impressions. In case of reviews you have to play the entire game at the very least 2 times before giving a verdict all I had was a go at it therefore I've only discussed things that caught my eyes.
Assuming the minigames were good, I would've praised them had I played them. The choosen art style aside I had issues with the gameplay the fact that I wasn't able to buy more than 2 guns out of 6 or so was pissing off and then I saw a director's mode which basically revoles around 6 or so more guns, that is bull shit and I will not downplay it. Look at it this way given the gameplay experience is entirely in the guns I spent 5 hours on collecting them and didn't even obtain 20% of what was offered, for god sake I had to play the carny stage 3 times before being able to afford 2 weapons.
If you read the impressions on story, graphics, gameplay and sound. I have tried hard to balance the good things and the positives furthermore I started on every criteria with positives and moved on to negatives... while the positive things aren't explained in detail the negatives are simply because millions of people have read praises already rewriting extended paragraphs on how well the blood splatters from the mutants to the walls and floors isn't really needed.
I also limited myself and not say more than 2 or 3 a maximum of 3 bad things per criteria I had some more issues with the graphics such as the poor character models which are like really really bad, Isaac's bald head and forehead have no textures whatsoever, and everyone's hands look plasticy.
The game also has no vibration settings, the rumbling was crazy intense in the game I wanted to turn it off or at the very least reduce the amount of it, I can also further criticize the sound effects but i don't need to cause i've already said enough bad things the whole last 2 paragraphs weren't necessary but I just wrote them to illustrate that I am holding back on both ends I may have not noticed everything that worked in the game but I haven't stated everything that didn't.
Seriously, something like this coming from a doctor is mindboggling.
I suppose calling you a fan boy wasn't the most civil thing, and I thought about it later but at the moment I was answering several posts so I didn't phrase my comeback as appropriately as possible for which I apologize to you now, that said you don't need to bring my professional into this and fyi I have a few years left before officially becoming a doctor.
You even admitted to getting "50 minutes" of fun out of it.
It would've been a passable game had I had 2.5/5 hours of fun and those 50 minutes as I've explained multiple times ended terribly. The fun started when I was given a mission I could relate to "save the cheerleader, save the world" save the stripper and kill the bad guy the ride started off nicely clear cut simple and fun but things got weird, fucked up incesteous themes were introduced out of nowhere, even when Warder Darling kissed his mother for the first time I thought he went for the cheek or something... the scenario presented was FUCKED UP, not funny, not from any stretch of the examination it was disgusting and I couldn't wait to 'give him BULLETS' and save Varla Guns and in the end I couldn't acheive either instead bizzarre auditory stimulus of a grown man climbing inside a gaint mutated womens vagina, I feel disgusted thinking about it and you want me to think better of the game on those few fun minuites.
For the last time those 50 fun minutes equaled to the worst climax of all time.
Stealing something you supposedly hated before trying with the goal of killing time (what? why?)...
Of all I have read from you this is probably the most offensive. Do you have any idea where I live, I live in a city where pirated mediums are commercially sold, my family, friends, and any one in the social sphere consumes them happily I am the only one in my social sphere who doesn't touch a pirated medium instead I choose to travel abroad and buy something 50 times the price of what I can get domestically.
Doing something nobody in my social circles understands 9/10 people laugh at me when they hear I haven't played X game cause I plan on going to X country in my summer holidays to buy it.
You aren't exposed to piracy therefore you don't do it, I live in it and avoid it something like a bar tender not drinking alcohol.
Furthermore as I mentioned I was stuck somewhere, in other words I had to spend a night somewhere where I had nothing to do, so I choose to pick it up and play it. Had I not been in the situation I would've never even played this FUCKED UP game to begin with.
Hounestly if anyone can find a game about incests funny or their style of game... I have no comment. Despite such a grotesque conclusion I wrote in my review I wrote in my review the ending dialogue between G and Washington was insightful and funny.
I understand your complaints towards the upgrades. It's a design decision, not everybody will be happy. I'm pretty sure they made it this way based on the fact this is an arcade game and that players would replay the game to improve their scores, not just once to watch the cinematics and make sense out of the plot... sigh. You have yet to make a point on why this game is "shit". It's probably the story. Whatever.
In my entire playthrough aside from missing a few of those useless skulls I didn't come across any reason to play the game again.
All HOTD games in the series had ground breaking graphics combined with alove for shooting the undead furthermore all these games had alternate pathways save a survivor and they tell you to take a safer path, you can play the game again to see what path you take if you don't save them.
This game on the other hand has shitty graphics, so playing it again to enjoy the detailed character animations and the realistic 3D world is out of the equation, so is the prospect of going to places you missed in your first playthrough, now the only reason to playthrough the game is to unlock weapons I'm going to pass on that shitty excuse. Had the level design offered more options I might have considered playing it again with other weapons but as a whole even for shooter fans I recommend getting 2 & 3 return for true HOTD action and if you are intrested in good shooters designed for home console pick any of the 2 RE chronicle series.
I didn't want to bash on the game this hard but I am afraid you asked for it.
In conclusion, I am posting my impressions which contains all that I liked and disliked in my 5 hour playthrough those glowing skulls may've been something amazing and worth playing the game over and over again for you but they weren't for me.
I am not sorry if my opinions do not correlate with your views, but this is how I perceived them. That said, if you've enjoyed this game good for you.
