Oh goodie, another FPS game! Will it be a fun and intuitive experience like Fight Zone or will it give me more headaches than Echo did? Yes, I've had a pretty interesting experience when it comes to DigiPen FPS games. The noble first person shooter is, while not really a genre in and of itself, my favorite "breed" of video game. Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those foam-mouthed thrill seekers who play FPS games for the rush of the violence. In fact, I think it's a shame that modern FPS games tend to stick to the same formula when my favorite game of all time (slight props to anyone who can figure it out) deviated so greatly from the "linear shooting gallery" rigmarole. The perspective allows you to truly inject yourself into the character and experience the narrative to the fullest extent and the mechanics of a typical "shooter" game tend to be intuitive and natural. That said, it's very easy to use those qualities as fallbacks to justify an overall mediocre experience.
But now I'm just rambling, so I'm going to cut myself off there. Let's get into the review and find out where on the FPS spectrum FP-FS lands, shall we?
Well, upon starting up FP-FS I was delighted to see that it seemed to take a bit of inspiration from my aforementioned favorite game of all time, using words like "augmentation" and "multitool" (is it clear enough yet?). Indeed, the soundless tutorial screens got me fired up enough to tear through this game like a hot knife through butter. It was when I started looking for the "start game" button that I noticed the words "now loading" at the bottom of the screen. This had been going on for a good 5 minutes, and there was no progress bar to speak of, so I just assumed the game had crashed.
As I write this, I plan to start the game up again and let it sit for as long as it needs to. Hopefully I'll be able to occupy myself with whatever happens to be on Animal Planet...
*sigh* Yeah, this game is just a loading screen. Darn, I was really looking forward to it, too. Oh well. I hope my random musings on FPS games were at least somewhat entertaining. Until next time...
Links
https://www.digipen.edu/?id=1170&proj=448
