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Mace Griffin reminds me of the games that appeared during the FPS rise of the 90's in the wake of Doom. It gets the job done, but doesn't offer as positive and experience as the top notch titles can. As such, it feels dated and tiresome. Mace Griffin does have a solid base to build on. The single-player campaign is a decent size, and should provide you with a respectable number of hours of game-play. The length of the missions however are one of it's downfalls. It suffers from that dual personality of having respectable check-points but distant save points. The majority of your time will be playing in standard first-person-shooter style, but there are a significant number of in-ship missions. For these you'll be placed in a space ship of some kind (and they will vary a little bit) and be sent out to hunt down other ships. There’s a standard selection of guns and missiles to choose from in each of the vessels, but it’s the controls that set it back the most. I found having to use the R-Stick for pitching and turning awkward. They don’t help the timed missions you’ll be thrown into while flying about. As for the levels when you’re on your feet, I found the environments started to feel rather bland. Lots of repetitive architecture when you're inside buildings and hallways with piles of closed doors that don’t open. The levels do feel rather large, which is nice, but it's annoying during the times in certain levels where there's backtracking required to get to various way-points which aren’t connected in a fluid manner. There’s lots of weapons for you to tote along the way through the corridors, but I found ammo to be scarce in the later levels I played, and I only managed to curb my apathy towards the game until I reached about half way through it. At least when the action is happening it’s fairly fast paced, heavy, and gives a decent challenge. Unfortunately things like ridged movement of you character and cumbersome controls with weapons like the sniper rifle get in the way of that action. The broken AI will upset some players, no doubt. The snipers have incredible aim (as I suppose they should) yet on the other end of the spectrum I’ve caught some foes keeping completely still while I stand nose-to-nose with them. Usually in these cases they’ll start moving when I give them a swat with my club, but in some cases they seem to take a couple hits before waking up. And for those that like a good story, prepare to hear this one with voice characters that range from annoying to uninterested. Henry Rollins sounds particularly bored when portraying the main character. With a couple more coats of polish, this FPS could have been amazing; but with it’s lack of attention to detail, and some refinement needed in most things it has done right, there's simply more engaging FPSes out there that I would recommend spending your time on. It may have been something new and 'good enough' to keep die hard FPS fans busy at the time, but I can’t see much reason to play it today.Read full review
I just played this game and I am sorry to say it was a real let down. This game looked like alotta fun but turned out to be a slow paced "action" game. Controls take alittle time to learn, and gameplay is pretty easy. It's just a shame that the story was weak to say the least. Graphics are abit weak also. 3 outta 5
Much good game is nice...
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GOT THIS TWO DAYS EARLY THANK YOU LOOKS GREAT YES WOOD BUY A ANOTHER ONE IF NEED IT
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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