Grumah wrote:

Why doesn't it recognize the thumb buttons on my mouse?

You can "gun hammer" the... hammer, your melee weapon. It's pretty crazy to watch because of its physical impossibility.

You can indeed lean left and right, which would be nice if I wanted to do that (I don't). However since I only tried to duck behind cover instead of lean around it, I might have taken a shitload too much damage playing normally. Because whoa, I took a shitload of damage after fighting the first enemy who wasn't using a pistol. The robot people with gatling rifles almost killed me, since they never miss. :(

Bullet time is a nice feature but it seems it's more like a BFG in this game, since it has an extremely limited supply which doesn't regenerate over time (one of the really good things about FEAR) so you are encouraged to never use it until after you beat a really hard part at which point you just then remember that you have it and should have used it and should you perhaps reload the save and play it over again no fuck that.

I had an easier time making a basket in Deus Ex 1 than in this game, and the baskets are lower as well as letting me charge my throwing power in this. Sign me up for the Knicks already (whuh?).

One huge plus: aiming with a gun. One thing more FPS games really need to start doing is letting me aim carefully by pressing/holding/toggling the right mouse button. Either down the sight or just a simple zoom (I might prefer that games no longer use down the sight actually since it blocks the bottom part of my view while aiming). It makes sense now that graphical capabilities are going way up, and that means longer distances with more long ranged combat can be included in maps. It's just part of the natural evolution of games.

Huge negative: Europe. Do they all fucking talk like that in real life? That is annoying. :( The horrible voice acting didn't help either, but I guess over there they believe the average American thought pattern is formed by cheesy cliches or whatever. Well bad news Europe, you don't write that crap as well as we can, so HA. Max Payne was both a parody and an homage to action and noir movies... which was written by a bunch of Scandinavian DUEDS. I'm not sure what point I'm trying to make there. Perhaps it would make more sense if I spent all day writing this post, but I don't give that much of a fuck.

Um anyway, this game is still better than Doom 3. A LOW BAR INDEED.

Verdict: Ok, hm.