Comments on: Psi-Oploads

By: Racoon

Racoon — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:21:03 +0000

A guy with psionic powers, looks aged, can shoot guns and has a very visible aura around his eyes ?!?

Ok, this is not Limbo of the Lost but it´s clearly that they were VERY inspired by Marvel´s Cable.

By: BaconIsGood4you

BaconIsGood4you — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:56:08 +0000

Play this game! So much fun! Just get creative with your powers, surfing explosives into guys or mind controlling them and sticking them in a pile of crates and use your pyrokinesis.

The stories a blast too. Its not amazing our anything, but it does stick out in my mind as simply absurd fun and that its well aware how silly and campy it is.

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:29:57 +0000

“it would be incredibly difficult to ride an object”

Huh uh huh.

By: KingMob

KingMob — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:47:02 +0000

Chiming in with the other Second Sight fans.
RPS, where is our love? The game mechanics were a lot of fun, and more importantly, the story was amazing.

By: TychoCelchuuu

TychoCelchuuu — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:30:32 +0000

I think they use third person because it would be incredibly difficult to ride an object that you are telekenetically levitating in first person.

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:37:17 +0000

I’m not sure why developers insist on using third-person over first-person for shooters. I was just playing through the Lost Planet demo, thinking it was cack but possibly might be better in first-person (your avatar moves like a marionette on crystal meth). The only third-person action games which I think worked well were the Max Payne ones.

Which made Stranglehold all the more disappointing for me. Max Payne-a-like which is the official sequel to perhaps my favourite action movie? Sign me up! Until I play the demo anyway and discover its just not very enjoyable.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:06:52 +0000

azwipe: I’m joking.

By: Mr Pink

Mr Pink — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:13:26 +0000

For those complaining about logging in to fileplanet, don't forget bugmenot! It's only a partial solution to fileplanet's astonishingly bad service, but at least I don't have to give them my details.

By: Steven Hutton

Steven Hutton — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:23:09 +0000

Radiant has just reminded me how excited I am about Prototype.

By: Cunningbeef

Cunningbeef — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:34:54 +0000

I’m sorry, 2GB?

Could you convert that to Peggles? tia

By: Ben Abraham

Ben Abraham — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:19:22 +0000

What, no trailer?

By: Radiant

Radiant — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:12:45 +0000

Second Sight was pants.
This [Psi-Ops] wasn’t much cop either.

They’re both afflicted with that thing that most ’special powers’ shooters suffer from where they piecemeal your powers, and therefore the best bits of the gameplay, to you bit by bit over the course of the game; so you only get the full experience with all the bells and whistles for an hour and a half at the most linear part of the story [the end].

Which just turns it into a generic ‘7 out of 10′ shooter for the majority of the game until the last hour by which time you’re bored to tears and just trying to get to the end.

One day a developer is going to fix that and then some fool in a comments thread will come along and call their ground breaking special powers shooter a generic 7 out of 10 sandbox game.