Indeed- if you love your Bioshock, Theif and or Dark Messiah you can't go far wrong here; bit of an old-school feel with a twist. (if I hadn't know the Half-life 2 level designer of City 17 was involved I'd certainly have noticed the similarities... not a bad thing at all!)
Some may complain about the simplistic visuals, maybe, but i find them beautiful in their 'water-color esque' way... With the added bonus that, if you're able to run Bioshock ok, you'll be in for a very smooth game indeed (we have a few tweaks over the console version like FOV slider etc.. otherwise very simple... a nice change actually).
Just takes a little 'belief' to take it all in and the sheer amount of locations has a cumilative effect...
Good old UT3 engine eh?
So it's all down to the Gameplay and content to do it's work I guess... fairly early on and it's going well on that front (reccomend Hard)... will have to see if it justifies full price.
I know they wanted to keep the Story elements strong as well as leaving character interaction etc short and sweet (I think the quote was 'as short as a tweet'
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)It's delivering so far... familiar Bioshocky-Halflifey-Theif controls... minimal interaction ala Bioshock but with branches and choices a little on the watered-down side of Deus Ex (no surprise there as developers from all those games were involved)
Great for an antidote to some of the overcomplicated we're all playing so hard!