Recent reviews by Echo203

This game is from 2007 and it's still one of my favorites. It is the ultimate hat simulator/meme factory, and there are also weapons. This is the game Overwatch wishes it could be.

The possibilities for taking out bad guys in this game are practically limitless, with a wide range of weapons, strategies, disguises, and options in general. However, my favorite thing about it is you can bean a dude in the head with a can of expired spaghetti sauce, retrieve your can, and then hit the next guy with it too. Idk if it being expired gives it a damage buff or what, but I've cleared entire levels with nothing but expired spaghetti sauce and it's amazing. Getting assassinated is pretty bad, but it's so much worse to get assassinated with a Chef Boyardee can from last year with all your henchmen's blood on it.

1. Never in my life have I had to ask myself so many times, while playing a AAA game, "what the ♥♥♥♥ am I supposed to be doing here?". The map design is confusing, the in-game map itself often doesn't have any useful information (sometimes not even an objective during a mission), and several missions I figured out through luck or googling.

2. I played on medium difficulty, and it took several tries to do simple stuff like get through a doorway or clear a single room. This game isn't hard because the AI is good, or the enemies are good, or the weapons are powerful; it's hard because a random-ass NPC with no armor tanks 10-15 shots to the body before going down. I don't even use the SMG or pistol because they're basically airsoft guns. The rifle is good until it runs out of ammo, and hits with the shotgun basically don't count if you're more than 20 ft from your target.

3. Lots of long-winded, un-skippable cutscenes that you have to watch over and over AND OVER if you mess something up and have to re-do a mission.

4. Bugs/glitches/design flaws for days. Switching weapons with the scroll wheel takes an eternity and a half, enough time for you to get gang-raped by 20 enemies at once while you look for a useful weapon. Sprinting cancels your weapon switch (not sure why that made sense to the devs). On several occasions, I'd scroll up 4-5 times and still be on the same weapon.

5. Lazy enemy AI: instead of, ya know, walking through a door or something, enemies just spawn behind you like it's CoD or something. As a result, real-life tactics do not apply in any way. You can't come around a corner, pie a room, see that it's clear, and run into it, because you'll be surrounded by a horde of enemies that spawn out of thin air from where you just cleared. In many cases, where I would have thought "this balcony is a nice vantage point from where I can survey the next part of the map and plan my attack", all I could do was make sure my mags were full and then just drop in blindly, so that the enemies would magically appear.

Conclusion: if you can get this game for like $10 or less, yeah sure, why not. It's kinda like a slightly more irritating version of Doom with more cutscenes. Also there's lots of blood, guts, tits, and giant guns. Nothing wrong with that. If they want you to spend serious money on it, for the love of God, save your time and money and do anything else. Learn origami or something; it'll be more enjoyable.