Reviews - IgorPoulpupov

Excellent mod with classic gameplay, anyone who likes HL2 and its episodes will certainly like this too.

Half Life 2 on sleeping pill. Extremely linear, terribly empty, very slow. The maps are very large for no reason, since there is usually nothing to do inside them but roam around looking for the passage to a next very empty map. Not sure why the mod is designed this way, but yeah, it's just very boring.

Pros: some new weapons and new enemies, but you barely get to use or face them. Not sure why either.

An excellent game. Very dark atmosphere, great and ambitious story, many different combat playstyles to develop, tons of non-mandatory content to read/explore/find, 100 to 200h duration... But yeah, people were expecting more, so they prefer to hate it. Funny way of thinking, I prefered enjoying what was there for me to enjoy, and there was a lot.

Just like Far Cry 3 (thus the relatively high rating) with tons of annoying things that seem to have been put there on purpose:

- You keep getting attacked by random enemies (eagles, in particular) while wanting to do something else.

- The story is absolute meh and the endings make you feel like there was 0 ambition in making the story any good. The NPCs are not interesting.

- The missions are not badly designed in general but are repetitive and not creative at all. The races are scripted to be annoying.

- I got tons of crashes to desktop.

There were a few nice missions still, the first Shangri La missions, the Yogi and Reggie ones, but that's it. That game was just done to make more money over the success of Far Cry 3 I guess. Totally skippable.

Pros:
- Plays fast and smooth. When there's many monsters to fight, it's intense and fun.
- The music is good (at least when you like metal).
- The map editor is simple yet very good, allowing for creating rich SP or MP maps in no time. +2 points just for this.

Cons:
- Too much platforming. I'm here for playing an FPS, not Prince of Persia.
- In the campaign, looking for secrets kills the fast-pacing.
- Single checkpoint save file and no quick save have never made a game better, especially when there's so much insta-death platforming.

Fast paced action game with large amounts of enemies and one of the most cliché scenario ever.

Many of the elements that should have been great for this kind of game are mediocre. The sandbox side of the game is spoiled by how soulless the city feels and how way too easy and repetitive most of the side missions are (while out of nowhere some of them are very hard). The fast pacing is spoiled by the unnerving controls/movements (double taps all the time, direction of movement following the mouse more than the movements keys - especially with the tank, very random targeting...). The variety of body weapons is spoiled by how useless many of them are and how clearly superior to all the other ones the blade is. Even the checkpoint system is ruined by not saving your character health and having you restart with your health bar half empty every time.

I got attracted by the body mutations (with, I supposed, an RPG feel) and stealth elements, but they ended up being very secondary.

Very pleasant game with a lot of character. A bit average on the fighting system and the amount of locations, apart from that it would probably be a 10.

I finally played this for the first time in 2017. I'm a big fan of retrogaming so it's not a problem. I'm a fan of James Bond movies, of Goldeneye 64 and of Deus Ex, which both have a good amount of similarities with NOLF. I have to say I've been disappointed...

Particularly good points:
- lots of weapons and gadgets found throughout the game.
- being able to chose stealth or action.
- high variety of locations. Very Bond-ish.
- quite good duration (well, chosing the stealth route particularly).

Disappointing:
- stealth mechanics are very flawed, even for a game that was out in 2000.
- physics are flawed too. Solid invisible parts of items that stops shots, enemies shooting at you through walls...
- poor humor all over the very (too) long cutscenes. "He so fat lol", "he so stupid lmao", "she can't sing bwhahaha"... I definitely didn't recognize the announced James Bond-like humor, except when going for a mocking attitude, which always gets ridiculously punished by not getting bonus items that an obedient attitude will provide.