Gameplayer writes:
"You may have heard about the mass lay-offs and redundancies that hit the gaming industry. On face value it may seem like a tremendous bummer that all those programmers are out of work. But when you think about it, this is actually wonderful news..."
They don't make games like this anymore.
Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.
Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.
You should stick with fortnite or one of the countless bloodborne style games then. What a joke.
I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.
They are making a remake, I think. I loved the original game when it was released, but I tried to play it again in recent years and just couldn't get on with it. The same with the older Hitman games.
Yeah chaos theory still holds up though I gotta say. If you’re a fan of the series I highly suggest you go back to that one. Ubi has said they are remaking sc for “modern audiences”. I don’t have a lot of faith for the future of that company
Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.
Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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Microsoft and Midway need to die.When they do,nobody is coming to their funeral
I disagree. Midway were more than excellent in 2004, I'm sure they can get back there again.
Sigh. Interplay opens again, Midway closes. just can't have all the publishers, can you?
they gave us mortal combat. midway was good in my book.
Wtf, maybe Game Player should die so everyone who writes for it and makes a living can see how it is to lose your job and budget your remaining cash for simple things like food. Companies are laying off left right and center, no one is hiring and those that are hiring are taking the best of the best. This guy is making it sound like finding a job is easy, tell that to everyone in the unemployment line buddy! For many what ever Midway is they still put food on the table for them.
That being, Midway was run by corrupt management, it was really in 08 old management bailed leaving only the new guys. Now these new guys don't take power right away, they are put through a probationary phase before being let go. Booty and his management team became official weeks before Chapter 11, definitely not enough time for them to turn things around. Games like Wheelman and Mortal Kombat vs. DC are proof enough Midway is changing, very few bugs and popular games to boot. The problem is when Midway does make good games (75-80+ on MC)no one bothers noticing, when they make bad games everyone suddenly notices them.
The article itself is crap, his reasoning is roughly a paragraph long on why Midway deserves to die. Shame on this jack a$s for wishing ill upon others who are just trying to make a living, its not the developers fault management rushes out a game.
Gameplayer.com.au deserves to die. Midway gave us some awesome games.