by tenno » 08 Apr 2006 00:43
i've been buying a lot of cheap ass FPS' for the xbox, sicne i'm such an FPS junkie. some of them, like Pariah are so damn clos to being great games, that you really wonder how they dropped the ball so bad. i'm writing a review on it, even though i'm sure the game has been covered and reviled sixx ways to sunday, i mean heres just one glaring issue:
in Pariah, your guns are ubgradable through hidden weapon cores found in areas of the map, however, for no obvious reason after important level changes in the game, you start off with depowered weapons, fully powered weapons, weapons you never picked up, losing weapons, etc. they give you the interesting ability to upgrade the weapons you favor, and then totally ruin it by randomly dictating said weapons weakening at mind boggling points, it's as if you were playing metroid prime, but instead of steadily building up your arsenal, it's be more like they give you all the weapons, then take them away or upgrade them on a whim.
mind. blowingly. lame.
and it doesn't end there, it's just the game could have been so damn good....