[thatmariolover]

The issue I have with the guy is his review of Perfect Dark and the fact that almost everybody else is saying the same thing except the ones brave enough to admit that there are problems with a game they just dropped 65 bucks on.


The graphics are pretty enough in a lot of areas but lacking in others. The multiplayer portion of the game is also plagued with framerate issues when there's a lot going on. Rare did a decent job covering it up with a motion-blur effect but the stutter is visible to anybody not trying to fool themselves. Dunno if they're splitting up processing tasks between the 3 processors but the stutter seems independent to one player if you're doing split-screen.

The controls are decent, but why-oh-why couldn't they learn from Halo and make it so your camera slows ever-so-slightly when it highlights an enemy? Shooting someone to death is slow when I can just roll past them, flip around and sword them to death without the tedium of trying to aim at someone with an ineffective targeting system that's unable to compensate for the lack of a mouse. Couple this with the absence of anything resembling an effective sniper weapon and you're in a world of hurt if you like to kill from a distance (there are several scoped weapons in the game, they all just suck).

And the Physics might be good but the multiplayer animations are just terrible. Everybody looks exactly the same, runs exactly the same, and upon death gains insta-rigor-mortis - freezing in their current position and bouncing like a knocked over mannequin - rendering the oh-so-pretty physics worthless.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the game but saying there aren't problems is just absurd.