Nanor
Well-Known Member
Ok, so I've had Blood Money for about.. 2 weeks now. I'm very impressed if I do say so. This combines stealth, deception and skill like never before. Heck, there's even some budgeting!
Overview:
Ok, I've installed it and I've started it up. I ofcourse, with all games I play, something always goes wrong. I can immediatley tell that my computer can't actually handle it as my mouse chops up. I can live with that, even if it will dull the gaming experience somewhat. I start the first level, a tutorial. This basically involves our hero infiltrating an abandoned fun fair whilst teaching you how the game works. So I learn to walk, climb and smash someones face against a rail in 5 minutes!
I work my way through the level whilst enjoying the gaming experience I'm having. Then I meet my first problem, I'm given a sniper rifle and told to shoot a few guards. Ofcourse, once I zoom in, taking shots is litterally impossible, so I have to do without zooming in and just use the standard crosshair on my screen. Bleh, I say!
The game is, despite it's choppiness on my computer, a work of gaming genious. It's a game you can, and perhaps want to work out a plan on how you're going to pulverise a clown and work your way into a mob bosses house or how you're going to push someone off the side of a building to make it look like an 'accident'. Ofcourse, it's not quite as speedy as that, it involves planning and executing. You're going to have to find out whatever ways possible to take down targets to actually get to the target. Whether this involves poisoning someones coffee, or planting a bomb on a chandelier and dropping it at the exact time. Ofcourse, you don't have to do that, you could always wait until they're alone and fibre wire them.
I find there are several ways of taking out enemies if it starts a chain reaction:
1) This would be, sneaking around and pummelling them and disposing of the body once it's taken out.
2) Ofcourse, the above might not work. They could catch you when you're about to fibre wire them and go to run and get a card, at which point you take out your silenced silverballers and pummel them on the head.
3) Then that might not work, they might get the guard and he's gonna take out his gun and get reinforcements, and before you know it, there will be about 3 guards there. At that point you rip out your SMG. It's silenced, and it still does considerable damage, not to mention the fire rate! If you manage to take them out, sure you've got some cleaning to do, but at least you're not dead.
4) So lets say, the above doesn't work (You never had what it takes to do it silently, eh?) and lo and behold, there are half a dozen of armed guards standing in front of you. You have 2 options. Take out your M4/Shotgun and blast your way, no matter how many people see you, or alternativley you can run and hide in a closet, which has it's novelty values when you can look out and see them looking for you, then you decide the time to come out, silently kill the guards and start at step one.
Pros:
It's food for thought. It's nothing like BF2, where you shoot first ask questions later. You think of a plan, no matter how complex, and if you mess up, you face the consequences..
It has upgrades, you're not stuck with the same plain old pistol. When the game progresses, you're given more choices. Ofcourse, that can sound a bit drab, so they give you choices. You can sacrifice you're silencers for added damage and accuracy if you plan for a noisy entrance.
Notoriety. Are you infamous in the eyes of the law? If you've taken our your M4 and blasted your way through 50 people, people are going to be supicious in your next mission, rather than being dumb and thinking 'what can go wrong?'. You're notoriety is graded from 0-100. If you have a high notoriety, people won't let you into certain places, making life somewhat harder for 47. To get rid of your notoriety you can simply bribe citizens, police chief or even get a new identity!
Cons:
If you have a slow computer, you're in trouble. There's nothing worse than getting in trouble and taking out your guns and attempting to aim whilst juttering around like you're having withdrawal symptoms (Caffeine related ones ), or when you go to take a human shield so you don't take all the bullets and spending 30 seconds trying to get in the right place so you can actually do it, by which time ofcourse you're dead.
The story is pretty bad. It's not terrible, but you could hardly make it into even a BBC 2 lunchtime film. Without giving away too much, some person is looking for him and invites some reporter round. He shows him a file telling what happened and then that's where your mission originates from. So you basically know what happens. That somewhat subtracts from the story.
Overall:
One hell of a game, though I'd recommend you buy it only if you have a pretty good computer. The game combines everything you could want in a game, no matter what mood you're in. It tests your finesse and skill, as well as your planning and execution.
Hope you enjoyed my very first review!
Overview:
Ok, I've installed it and I've started it up. I ofcourse, with all games I play, something always goes wrong. I can immediatley tell that my computer can't actually handle it as my mouse chops up. I can live with that, even if it will dull the gaming experience somewhat. I start the first level, a tutorial. This basically involves our hero infiltrating an abandoned fun fair whilst teaching you how the game works. So I learn to walk, climb and smash someones face against a rail in 5 minutes!
I work my way through the level whilst enjoying the gaming experience I'm having. Then I meet my first problem, I'm given a sniper rifle and told to shoot a few guards. Ofcourse, once I zoom in, taking shots is litterally impossible, so I have to do without zooming in and just use the standard crosshair on my screen. Bleh, I say!
The game is, despite it's choppiness on my computer, a work of gaming genious. It's a game you can, and perhaps want to work out a plan on how you're going to pulverise a clown and work your way into a mob bosses house or how you're going to push someone off the side of a building to make it look like an 'accident'. Ofcourse, it's not quite as speedy as that, it involves planning and executing. You're going to have to find out whatever ways possible to take down targets to actually get to the target. Whether this involves poisoning someones coffee, or planting a bomb on a chandelier and dropping it at the exact time. Ofcourse, you don't have to do that, you could always wait until they're alone and fibre wire them.
I find there are several ways of taking out enemies if it starts a chain reaction:
1) This would be, sneaking around and pummelling them and disposing of the body once it's taken out.
2) Ofcourse, the above might not work. They could catch you when you're about to fibre wire them and go to run and get a card, at which point you take out your silenced silverballers and pummel them on the head.
3) Then that might not work, they might get the guard and he's gonna take out his gun and get reinforcements, and before you know it, there will be about 3 guards there. At that point you rip out your SMG. It's silenced, and it still does considerable damage, not to mention the fire rate! If you manage to take them out, sure you've got some cleaning to do, but at least you're not dead.
4) So lets say, the above doesn't work (You never had what it takes to do it silently, eh?) and lo and behold, there are half a dozen of armed guards standing in front of you. You have 2 options. Take out your M4/Shotgun and blast your way, no matter how many people see you, or alternativley you can run and hide in a closet, which has it's novelty values when you can look out and see them looking for you, then you decide the time to come out, silently kill the guards and start at step one.
Pros:
It's food for thought. It's nothing like BF2, where you shoot first ask questions later. You think of a plan, no matter how complex, and if you mess up, you face the consequences..
It has upgrades, you're not stuck with the same plain old pistol. When the game progresses, you're given more choices. Ofcourse, that can sound a bit drab, so they give you choices. You can sacrifice you're silencers for added damage and accuracy if you plan for a noisy entrance.
Notoriety. Are you infamous in the eyes of the law? If you've taken our your M4 and blasted your way through 50 people, people are going to be supicious in your next mission, rather than being dumb and thinking 'what can go wrong?'. You're notoriety is graded from 0-100. If you have a high notoriety, people won't let you into certain places, making life somewhat harder for 47. To get rid of your notoriety you can simply bribe citizens, police chief or even get a new identity!
Cons:
If you have a slow computer, you're in trouble. There's nothing worse than getting in trouble and taking out your guns and attempting to aim whilst juttering around like you're having withdrawal symptoms (Caffeine related ones
), or when you go to take a human shield so you don't take all the bullets and spending 30 seconds trying to get in the right place so you can actually do it, by which time ofcourse you're dead.The story is pretty bad. It's not terrible, but you could hardly make it into even a BBC 2 lunchtime film. Without giving away too much, some person is looking for him and invites some reporter round. He shows him a file telling what happened and then that's where your mission originates from. So you basically know what happens. That somewhat subtracts from the story.
Overall:
One hell of a game, though I'd recommend you buy it only if you have a pretty good computer. The game combines everything you could want in a game, no matter what mood you're in. It tests your finesse and skill, as well as your planning and execution.
Hope you enjoyed my very first review!
