I went to the midnight release of this (I don't know what compelled me to when i could have gotten it after work today) and played it for just one hour when I got home. It's excellent
I just got through the first assassination and I have to say that I'm loving the slightly sped up combat, the more fluid climbing, the hidden blades in combat...
My only gripe is that the faces sometimes look a bit PS2ish, specifically Lucy. What did they do to her? For a collection of pixels in a game, she was relatively hot in the first. Now not so much. But that's just a little thing. the actual gameplay is visually beautiful.
15-20 hours for the sequel of a game that you could easily beat in 6 hours is really very enticing and pretty impressive.
all in all, my first impression i that this review was right on the florins.
Bear in mind that 7 is still "good," and I certainly don't think this is bad game. But as a lifelong Mario fan, I don't see how anyone could consider this better, let alone on par with SMB3, Mario World, SM64 or Galaxy.
I would have appreciated if Gaz was included in this article as he provided one of the best lines in all of video game history and he was cool. Please GR, at least explain his absence.
odd coincidence you posted right before me.
i love GTA:CW, and you dont because youve never played it im sure.