Amander
08-02-2011, 02:59 AM
Just finished it.
At first, I wondered why Alice is in some asylum again after she healed herself at the end of the first game, but the story explains all this pretty well. Great story, very imaginative visuals. The platforming passages could've been less, but thy're not really hard alltogether.
Too bad the camera control is kinda screwy with mouse AND gamepad. If you don't know what I mean, mouse control feels like a rubber band and with the gamepad, the camera is locked and never thinks of turning where I'm actually looking like in normal 3rd person gamepad games. At least, the lock on function saves alot of hassle in combat, although I'd sometimes preferred just normal FPS-like mouselook (e.g. with 5 floaters and some of them opening and some not).
Didn't encounter any bugs either. Ok, I had one funn bug once, zombie zombies. I shot 2 zombies with my tea pot and they came right after me. I couldn't lock on them, I couldn't hit them, they couldn't neither. After a little running, I found their drops being where they stood right before. Zombie zombies, cool, eh? Ok, I do use the default controls, but they're really good. At least for the gamepad.
The changes from the original Alice are mostly good. The lack of proper controls and the whole combat system turn the game from dodge-and-shoot into timing-and-right-tool. Could be worse, I hate beat-em-ups with all them combos and timing stuff with passion but still found Alice 2 to be really great. At least, the really quick way to switch tools kinda makes up for the lack of stiff FPS controls.
Go get this game if you didn't already!
At first, I wondered why Alice is in some asylum again after she healed herself at the end of the first game, but the story explains all this pretty well. Great story, very imaginative visuals. The platforming passages could've been less, but thy're not really hard alltogether.
Too bad the camera control is kinda screwy with mouse AND gamepad. If you don't know what I mean, mouse control feels like a rubber band and with the gamepad, the camera is locked and never thinks of turning where I'm actually looking like in normal 3rd person gamepad games. At least, the lock on function saves alot of hassle in combat, although I'd sometimes preferred just normal FPS-like mouselook (e.g. with 5 floaters and some of them opening and some not).
Didn't encounter any bugs either. Ok, I had one funn bug once, zombie zombies. I shot 2 zombies with my tea pot and they came right after me. I couldn't lock on them, I couldn't hit them, they couldn't neither. After a little running, I found their drops being where they stood right before. Zombie zombies, cool, eh? Ok, I do use the default controls, but they're really good. At least for the gamepad.
The changes from the original Alice are mostly good. The lack of proper controls and the whole combat system turn the game from dodge-and-shoot into timing-and-right-tool. Could be worse, I hate beat-em-ups with all them combos and timing stuff with passion but still found Alice 2 to be really great. At least, the really quick way to switch tools kinda makes up for the lack of stiff FPS controls.
Go get this game if you didn't already!