Graphics are great, Gameplay is great.......when not bugging out.
932357
Love the BF series games. Went from the Xbox 360 to the PS4 on this game, and the graphics are Night and DAY!!!! Gorgeous rendering and Frostbite 3 work wonderfully on it. Here are a list of pros and cons.
Pros
- Graphics are Crisp and clean
- 48 player multiplayer maps (compared to 24 player maps)
- Tons of new configurations to vehicles and load outs
- Commander mode is a great, fun new addition
- Leveloution is a blast.
Cons
- Game is riddled with bugs, has latency issues with the server (mainly on conquest mode, conquest did not work for first month of release).
- Other than the bugs the game is fun as all get out.

This game has made leaps and bounds in fun factor. As far as the "new generation" of FPS this is the one to play. Had Ghosts and turned it in for cash after a week, game was very repetitive. This game has had significant amounts of changes to it to make it different, and I highly recommend buying the Premium pack to get the extra maps of new and old BF3 maps for extra carnage on this game.
3764587
I have noticed something about reviews for games of an exellent quality either they get great reviews or people that have a problems installing or running the game slate it without realising that it is not the fault of the games company but the fact that they cannot check all hardware configs and these guys have just had an unluckly time as there config wasn't looked at.
But enough of that... My machine works fine with GIANTS... 700mhz PII, 128mb RAM and a GeFore DDR ram video card...
This game is cool and the cut scenes for the meccs and seareaper missons are brilliant... its a shame they waver on the giant...
The extra modes of play... not just shooting and midless killing but a race game and base building help to keep up the intrest. And it has to be the best looking game I have seen for ages... Well the smarties and Vimps are a little ugly but...
I think this game is well worth purchasing and I only gave it 4 stars out of 5 because no game is perfect and there are them few niggles with no funny intros for the Giant... And sometimes some worlds slow down (I think this was due to bad level optimisation.)
Also getting Multiplayer to work was a chore... but it works fine now... and please update the patch now... although it doesn't need it to play it fixes a load of problems.
I would actually say the multiplayer is well balanced (due to what has been said in ealier reviews. The guy must have been useless as the other two characters or something.) As Kabuto can kill the Gyrocopter easily... and the meccs are no problem to pick up and chew to death. I haven't played as delphi multiplayer yet... I hope its as enjoyable as the Mecc and Kabuto.
Overall graphics are spot on.
Gameplay is wide and varied if a little lame for kabuto and the delphi reaper ski.
Guns for Meccs are cool.
Base building is easy and fun.
263920
I find this game very eay to get lost in. Graphics are great, story is good enough; it's not the best but it is interesting. Voice acting is good, controls are good on both Mouse/KB and gamepad. It does have some performance issues and at the time of writing this AMD useres are having some problems running the game compared to their Intel/Nvidia counterparts.

Playing this game is a blast, whether its running around searching for loot, completing missions or just helping people. Going online is also a lot of fun. You can take part in some of the PvP or opt out and group up with others and go about your business as usuall. Co-op in this game comes highly recommended IMO.

If you have an Intel i5 or better and a GTX 660 or better, pick it up, it's a lot of fun. If you're on AMD, wait for a patch. Dying Light is worth the retail price IMO, however a sale would make it that much sweeter.

Current state 4/5
If all performance issues are patched its an easy 5/5 for me.
2669147
A very good game, an amazing story, I believe some just don't like this different style of gameplay but that doesn't mean it is bad or it isn't fun, it's just less interactive and more cinematic, like interacting with a movie so that you can see different things and different parts of a whole story.  That ain't bad either, if you like more interactive gameplay for hours, like Skyrim or other games with many hours don't play this game.  Graphics are superb, some of the best (if not the best) of the graphics I saw on PS3 or other current gen game.

I'd rate it a 4 as, in my opinion, it should had a bit more of gameplay to be great, but this doesn't mean the game is bad or just one more of a kind.
803948
Game is buggy at times, but this is an incredible game.
4506043
The game is incredible!! The graphics and gameplay are unbelievable, I haven't had any problems with the game except for a bit of stuttering but i'm pretty sure that can be fixed with a patch. As for the complainers i say get a life and enjoy the game. You can't expect any games to be perfect. No such thing. The ones that are having problems in the beginning are most likely isolated and again could be fixed with a patch.
585895
This is a great game, no doubt. The graphics are great, and the gameplay is pretty much what you'd expect from a good Doom remake.

However, for a little while, I was tempted to give this game a lower rating. Why? Well, I am not quite sure. I enjoyed the game and it has super high production values. However, there is nothing in the game that really blew me away in the FarCry sort of way. Everything was pretty much the way I had expected it and had seen it before, although in a better and more professional way. There is no doubt that this is one of the best games I ever played, but for some reason, it is a great game in a disappointing way. There really are no true surprises.

The game almost exclusively plays in a Mars station. The station is very nicely modeled and believable. As you get through different parts of the station, the graphical style changes slightly. However, not enough to be really obvious unless you pay close attention to the graphics. This in a way is one of the weaknesses of the game. Once you are done, you really feel like you only played a single mission and are ready for the next level, even though the game is longer than most shooters these days (by a wide margin). The game even features a few interesting and unique moments, but overall, the whole thing appears like one huge space station blur once you are done. It is hard to think of individual moments of importance beyond a few exceptions. (Although those exceptions are very very good!)

The game is scary in a "there is a monster in my closet" sort of way. The game is very dark. It is to gaming what Event Horizon is to movies. Very dark and very scary. But of course, you always know you are playing a game. I guess games are really hard to make truely scary, but this game gets the closest to being really scary of all the games I have played. Although I can see why some players would not like the constant flashlight action.

Over time, the game grew on me and I was truely sucked in and could not stop until I was done. In hindsight, I am sorry it is over and I truely enjoyed it, even though I was initially somewhat disappointed.

I liked the added elements brought to the story through email and computer terminals. Some critics complain about all the reading and how it slows down the games pace, but I did enjoy it, even though I normally do not like my shooters to be interrupted by puzzles.

I did experience a few bugs. Sometimes the sound shut off and I actuall had to reboot my machine. Also, some of the weapons handling is sub-optimal. Switching between the Soulcube, the flashlight, and other weapons sometimes does not work as advertised (especially after you load a game or after you watched an in-game video).

Overall, I can recommend this game to anyone who has a remote interest in first person shooters.
4406461
fun and frustration mixed. i love the characters, environments, music. all but the frustrating camera and the beast not listening to commands. I recommend the game for the experience but be aware of these issues. if those points were solid, i would give it 5 stars. but with the issues its 4.
372264
Bought this recently because I liked the demo and heard the sequel was coming out.

Pros:
In game graphics is stunning.  It's a dated game but graphics is still great.

Great overall controls, they made easy and simple, it will make you feel like a fast moving killing machine.  It can be difficult to do more controlled movements whenever you want to make it through certain obstacles because character movement like turning is not that precise.  But no big deal.  Liked how they used the SIXAXIS to make ninpo more powerful.

Decent storyline, at least there was decent attempt to create a story supported by some lore.

Very challenging.  Offers different levels of challenges.  Just finsihed normal mode and working on hard mode.  Definitely need some patience to master.  It's not your regular hack and slash.  You will actually need to know what technique works best on each enemy, even the weakest ones.  This makes the game more interesting since you don't just blindly hack your way to completion.  Your character is very powerful as long as you know how to use him/her.

Nice variety of weapons, power ups, upgrades, secondary weapons.  The different weapons change the play style which is great.

Also has a treasure hunt kind of feature and several in game challenges to get more power ups which I think is a good addition to the overall game.

Cons:
One thing that really annoyed me about this game was in some boss battles, there were areas where your character can normally access (when not in a boss battle) that all of a sudden you cannot access during a boss battle.  There is no obstruction, no nothing, it's just the character just cannot move in that direction anymore.  To me it was stupid.  Developers could have at least made some kind of barrier or something which would make area movement restriction more sensible.  To me this is due to lazy developers.

Also in boss battles the camera angles are restricted which is annoying.  Normally you can control the direction of the camera but in some boss battles there fixed camera angles.  Not a big deal but a little annoying.

Movie cutscenes not so great, they seem to have used the original xbox cutscenes which are not up to the current graphic standards, no big deal but annoying.

Overall a great game even with it's minor flaws.  I'm happy I got it, I'm sad that I did not get it much earlier.  Going to definitely get the sequel.  Will be replaying this for quite some time.
4830431
Ive finally hit over 40 hours of game play time in multiplayer and figured I should write a review. So to start off this game is great! If you know anything about the battlefield series it has the same huge maps and battles you would expect. This time around however the maps have  increased in scale, along with the number of things you can do in them. Just about everything in the game has some type of destructibility to it, from buildings to roads and everything in between. However this game isn't without issues. Currently the game has netcode problems which are in the works for a fix. Things like not having your bullets register on people can be a common thing because of this. Another issue I have encountered is memory leaks. These seem to happen at different times, from anywhere between 1 hour of game play to 7 hours. But a simple exit out of the game easily fixes it. Aside from those I have not encountered any other problems that stick out as much. To sum it all up this is a fairly solid battefield game of which I can say Im happy to have bought it.
1001295
If you liked COD2 you'll like this one as well, although the battles are much less well known and monumental. The graphics are truly next generation, I wish this was available on PC as that is what version I had of COD2, better controls and patches being the main reasons.

Yes this is buggy and they needed to do a better job on QC, sometimes while playing I can't back up or go forward because my guys are in the way, it's also frustrating to get stuck in environmental objects, another is that your team doesn't follow you on a consistent basis, making it your responsibility to take out LOTS of enemies before you get any support.

Another obnoxious point is that you have to watch all of the cut scenes even if you passed that point and there is no way to skip them, the story/meetings are boring after once through.

Overall though this is a great game that was overshadowed by Gears of War(way too short single-player, rental only). I think it's time to go to the Pacific theater for this franchise in general though.
4840156
So far, so good, I like the open gameplay bur it seems the story telling has suffered as a result. Overall I really like it a lot. Lots of customization available, but a bit too easily early on I'm afraid. Still, a very solid game and I'm not disappointed in anything except the story telling.
1397076
The racing is great, a constant battle for position.  Unlike Gran Turismo were you can keep extending a lead, the pack will reel you in.  The spotter is excellent and essential, since there are huge blind spots on each side.  I've only tried the rookie level, the easiest, which is quite easy.
Graphically, it's a mixed bag.  The cars look great, and all the aspects of damage: the scraped paint, the crumpled fenders, the flying debris, the fires, are very impressive.  The oval tracks look fine.  However, the two road tracks look rather plain, and, furthermore, the frame rate becomes rather jerky on these tracks, even during practice laps, and even with the rear-view mirror turned off.  Racing on short tracks, since it causes lots of cars to be on the screen, also causes jerkiness.  I haven't noticed it on the speedways or superspeedways, but I've only tried short races so far.  However, since should be more room for the cars to spread out, it probably wouldn't be as bad as with the short tracks.  In any case, even doing 195mph qualifying at Talladega, there isn't the smooth sense of speed as in Gran Turismo 3 or in Le Mans 24 Hours, and I doubt that it's ever 60 fps.
The sound is very good.  The engines, the tires, the crashes, all sound great, and the spotter and the crew chief are very well done.  There was one major glitch.  In a short track race, after pitting and until the end of the race, the engine sound, and maybe the tire sound, disappeared.  I could hear the engines of the other cars, and the spotter was still there.  The crash sounds were still there when I hit the wall, not realizing that I was accelerating.
This is my first NASCAR game, so I don't know how it would compare to other NASCAR games.  But I'd say that it's an excellent, excellent racing game.
3750403
The game itself is perfect, a better two player Bejeweled than the ones previously released.  All the different charts of powers (equipment, skills, mounts, etc.) are confusing at first, but actually very simple in nature.

Sadly, the superior version of the game seems to be the demo for the PC.  Better graphics, blah blah.  No surprise there when you can spread the layout across the entire PC screen rather than crushing it into two tiny DS screens.  But the real killer are the bugs.  The game crashes.  A lot.  Not so much that it's not still fun, but FAR too often for a DS product.  At least it saves often enough that you don't lose too much data when it happens.

I also have some minor gripes with the user interface.  Nothing as bad as the crashes, but more frustrating at times.  For example, when you make a 4 or 5 in a row, you get an extra turn.  When this happens, text appears telling you what's going on.  The problem?  The text blocks much of the play area and linges for just a bit longer than I'd liked.  Each time it happens isn't any big deal, but you get many, many 4s and 5s in a row over the entire game and the annoyance builds up.  Also, while I haven't really played it often enough to know it comprehensively, I've gotten the sense that the multiplayer isn't particularly fair, balanced, or entertaining.  It's awesome to never let a monster take a turn because of an endless stream of 4s and 5s in a row, stuns, and entangles.  It's awesome to crush monsters when your warrior builds up to his finishing move and does 80%-150% of their health in one shot.  It's less cool for the other player and, after a few "cheap" wins, less cool for the winner as well.  At least, I want an opponent that fights back.  That's the whole point of multiplayer, right?

Anyway, there is a lot to be negative about, but I don't mean to focus on that.  The game is entertaining despite all that, and I feel it was well worth the money I spent.  (But if more than a demo version is ever released for PC, the grab that version instead.  I might, even though I already beat the game on the DS.)
50476
When I first bought and played the Getaway, I almost threw it on the ground and returned it the same day I bought it.  Luckily, i read a walkthrough which explained how recover health.  Honestly, that's the best thing the developers could have integrated into the game.  Otherwise, I'd still be stuck on the second level.  Now, as for the technical aspects of the game:  It has far superior graphics to Vice City, and certainly more realistic reactions to everything.  I liken the game to Metal Gear 2 more so than Vice City because of the good character range of motion and graphic quality.  The character can flatten against walls, crouch behind boxes, do sommersaults, do choke holds, break necks (my personal favorite move)  and a multitude of other motions.  Yes, the camera angle is fairly fixed, but the same thing happened in MGS2, and few people had problems with that.  Personally, I'm a big fan of the realism, minus the healing factor of course.  I think the biggest problem with this game is the repetition of the mission types.  Drive car kill people, kill people drive car.  As far as the "playable movie" that people gripe about, the cut scenes are so short when compared to MGS2 that it really doesn't become a problem.  No you can't skip them, but there are few times when you really want to.  Besides, they make the game that much more compelling.  Personally, I think the game is a good buy once you learn how to heal yourself (stand against a wall and watch the blood dissapear), though I wouldn't buy it at full price (I paid 40, and I think I should have paid less).  The city of London here is the star, make no mistake.  Beautifully rendered, right down to the irritating-as-hell roundabouts (I STILL can't navigate them).  The accents add a touch of realism, and to be honest, a welcome change from the stereotypical Italian mob stuff seen so often.  Getaway is a good, but not great game.  If you are looking for a Vice City duplicate, you won't find it here, but if you want a game with a good story, outstanding graphics and decent game control, pick up this game
2708826
This game has its ups and downs. <br />
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Here are the ups: the graphics are sweet. The maps are sweet. I played several times online and notice no lag at all. <br />
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The downs:It doesn't have many controller configuration options.
1033686
Oh boy, I was looking forward to this game.  I love this type of game.  Sadly, BA51 has some serious problems that indicate they either didn't listen to their QA testers or rushed to meet some arbitrary deadline.  With a little more honing this could have been fantastic.  Instead it's just OK.

What's good?  The graphics, for one.  There's great detail in your environment, enemies, weapons, etc.  Everything you could expect from a PS3 game is there, although it doesn't look as stunning as Call Of Duty 4, which I've seen a friend play on his XBox 360.  Explosions, weapons effects, and sound are all very good.

Although I'm still playing, so far the weapons are hit-or-miss.  There's a shotgun-like weapon that's basically useless.  When I first found it I thought it would be perfect for close combat, but it's not.  A regular combat shotgun might not look as future-cool in your hands, but would work better.  The ordinary assault rifle is very good, though, and sniper rifles can come in handy.  You can also man turrets here and there.

Early in the game there's an extended helicopter ride where you're manning a mounted machine gun that's very fun and wonderfully detailed.  You can actually hear the helicopter's hydraulics fading and recovering when you take hits.  You battle a gigantic alien thing on a bridge, and again, everything looks fantastic.

I've heard complaints about driving vehicles (so far only Hummers for me), but it's no better or worse than driving in any other game.  Forward or back on the left stick to go or stop, steer with the right stick.  I generally don't like driving in games, but it's no big deal.  Plus you can order teammates to man the Hummer's turret or get on it yourself (although the game usually makes you drive).

They've thrown in some squad command play, but it's not really that useful.  Also, your partners' morale rises and falls depending on how well you're doing, which is a nice twist.  You can target specific enemies and have your squad concentrate on them, which is nice, especially at one particular spot where your buddy is hovering overhead in a helicopter and you can have him take out the enemies on the ground for you.  Some complain about the squad dialogue, but these are grunts, not James Bond.

But it takes no time at all for the lack of QA to seriously damage the fun, though.  BA51 uses real-time mini loads ala Halo, but they're very jerky when they happen and sometimes freeze the screen for a couple of seconds.  Also, when there's a lot going on, the framerate suffers HORRIBLY.  Example:  Outside is a huge creature the size of a mansion stomping around, I'm in a basement collecting ammo.  Occasionally, little spider-like enemies attack, two to four at a time.  Even though most of what's happening is off-screen and your immediate environment is fairly calm, shooting the spiders turned into a jerk-fest of epic proportions.  There was so much skipping that it was nearly impossible to do anything but keep spraying bullets and hope that when the graphics caught up you'd hit something.  Yet, at other times when there's a lot of action, explosions, etc. going on things are fine.

Bottom line - I'm going to finish it but won't keep it.  BA51 is a sad, sad case of underdevelopment.  If the game so far is any indication, the frame-rate and loading problems are probably only going to get worse.  Movement throughout levels is littered with stutters.  I'm trying hard not to let it bother me, but there's really no excuse for it and most people I know would be driven insane and throw the game disk into the nearest busy intersection.  The story is getting interesting, the combat situations and enemy AI are pretty good, and so far the ever-changing environments keep things interesting.  But this game is badly broken.