Aftrunner Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 Well this isnt really very good is it? First how, how the hell does a game releasing in 2013 manage to do lighting worse than Chaos Theory. There are barely any dynamic lights, the lighting itself looks terribly flat and dull, no real gradients. Even the dark areas look bad (and yeah I adjusted the settings). The checkpoint system means there isnt really any incentive to try to play stealthily (and by stealth I mean minimal to no contact, not KOing everyone). Unless you like doing the same area over and over again. The movement kinda ruins it. Its still too fast for a splinter cell game. And the AI is really psychic at times. Any time you get detected, even enemies who never saw you and werent even in combat range instantly know where your last known position was. The level design is somewhat ok. If only there was good gameplay design to back it up. Oh and why the bullshit XP unlock system. Really why? The game really has no idea what it wants to be. Like a jack of all trades and master of none. Its not really a good stealth game. Its not really a good stealth action game either. At least its not Conviction. But then again it has no convictions. Lets try to pander to as many markets as we can. Edit Oh and the guy voicing Sam Fisher. Seriously *beep* you already Ubi. Just pay Ironside whatever he wants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonCore Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 You can use SweetFX to give it a pop, makes a big difference imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STICK3Rboy Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Well this isnt really very good is it? First how, how the hell does a game releasing in 2013 manage to do lighting worse than Chaos Theory. There are barely any dynamic lights, the lighting itself looks terribly flat and dull, no real gradients. Even the dark areas look bad (and yeah I adjusted the settings). The checkpoint system means there isnt really any incentive to try to play stealthily (and by stealth I mean minimal to no contact, not KOing everyone). Unless you like doing the same area over and over again. The movement kinda ruins it. Its still too fast for a splinter cell game. And the AI is really psychic at times. Any time you get detected, even enemies who never saw you and werent even in combat range instantly know where your last known position was. The level design is somewhat ok. If only there was good gameplay design to back it up. Oh and why the bullshit XP unlock system. Really why? The game really has no idea what it wants to be. Like a jack of all trades and master of none. Its not really a good stealth game. Its not really a good stealth action game either. At least its not Conviction. But then again it has no convictions. Lets try to pander to as many markets as we can. Edit Oh and the guy voicing Sam Fisher. Seriously *beep* you already Ubi. Just pay Ironside whatever he wants. LOL. So glad I didn't shell out money for this despite it getting good reviews. Conviction was just atrocious and this looked like it was more of the same. RIP Splinter Cell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonCore Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Its a pretty good game especially on higher difficulty, best since CT but yeah, they're never going to reach the heights of CT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullu Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 I personally liked it during my time. Ubi probably wanted to cater to all audiences; and hence elements from conviction made re-appearance. However; the option that you could still play in the stealth mode pretty much throughout was why i really liked it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven Angel Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 +1 +1. I personally enjoyed it. Sure it was not like old games (which is not surprising), but it's much much better than conviction. The AI is pretty good & challenging on high difficultly and co-op is blast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STICK3Rboy Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 I personally liked it during my time. Ubi probably wanted to cater to all audiences; and hence elements from conviction made re-appearance. However; the option that you could still play in the stealth mode pretty much throughout was why i really liked it Looking at the negatives Aftrunner mentioned, it doesn't seem like playing in stealth mode would be enjoyable either. Still, I'll probably give this a shot once it gets cheaper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftrunner Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Honestly, saying its a better stealth game than Conviction isnt really a compliment here. I mean lets face it as a stealth game, Conviction was pretty terrible. So it doesnt really take a whole lot to 1 up that. You can choose to play it stealthily but your definition of stealth would be different from mine. To me stealth is ghosting a level. Minimal to no contact with the enemies. Leave no bodies behind. Blacklist (theoretically) would let you do that but due to the checkpoint system it is incredibly frustrating to do it. So after that you are left with knocking out everyone. So what does it really matter if the enemy is KO'd or if he is dead. And then you might as well start popping off headshots, cause the game sure doesnt care. Why should you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Fwiw the side missions given by Grimm are pretty cool. The game is not CT but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonCore Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Honestly, saying its a better stealth game than Conviction isnt really a compliment here. I mean lets face it as a stealth game, Conviction was pretty terrible. So it doesnt really take a whole lot to 1 up that. You can choose to play it stealthily but your definition of stealth would be different from mine. To me stealth is ghosting a level. Minimal to no contact with the enemies. Leave no bodies behind. Blacklist (theoretically) would let you do that but due to the checkpoint system it is incredibly frustrating to do it. So after that you are left with knocking out everyone. So what does it really matter if the enemy is KO'd or if he is dead. And then you might as well start popping off headshots, cause the game sure doesnt care. Why should you? You can ghost through it if you want, and the game gives you enough tools to do it, more so than in previous games. And the XP reward for perfect ghosting (leave everything undisturbed) is way higher, like 2 or 3 times more iirc, so there's more incentive now like in MGS games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STICK3Rboy Posted June 21, 2014 Report Share Posted June 21, 2014 So I just got this game and f**king uplay is downloading an update every time I launch the game. WTF is this sh*t? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullu Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 PC version ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALPHA17 Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 WTF is this sh*t? This is UPlay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullu Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 i so want to get this game on PC...played the ps3 version and sold my copy on release....but UPlay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STICK3Rboy Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 i so want to get this game on PC...played the ps3 version and sold my copy on release....but UPlay This game apparently has incremental updates and it was upgrading itself to a newer version every time I launched it. It has stopped that now after downloading updates 3-4 times. It isn't so bad now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullu Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 ah thats neat !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vickyjohn Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Is game updating each and every time..? Thats annoying.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven Angel Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 No. If you buy retail version, UPLAY will automatically download all updates one by one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sudarsan Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 is online still active on ps3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vickyjohn Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 oh ok ok.. Thanks joe .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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