So I bought AOM for $20 during one of the sales - probably black friday. I'm a fan of Volition, thought Saints Row was a lot of fun and that one with the president/Aliens was just incredibly stupid but so much fun.
I'm 5 characters in, and there's a lot of potential here - can't quite put my finger on it - but its sort of boring?
Its sort of Crackdown meets Saint's row but something feels off. Maybe its the mission structure, the boring-ish overworld or the sort of open world slog of misc quests. One of the biggest problems really is the lack of interesting things in to do in the open world. Terrain is flat so there's very little difference in area: The game is always go here, do this. Go here, do that. With an total absence of interesting things in Seoul to do.
I did Hardtack (the shotgun tank guy) solo mission and it was just a swarm of enemies coming at me and it was a lesson in tedium. Just the same dull enemies coming at you left, right. It's so bad.
I like that there's unlockable characters but I find it really irritating to do 1x boring misc quest to unlock the characters quest/mission. It's always do stupid misc things, like drive around, kill some thugs, save a hostage, go to a lair and then you can try to unlock your character. Its bad.
The characters swear a lot in this cartoony 3rd person shooter, somewhat amusing I guess
Pros:
* sometimes shooting + killing enemies (esp with hollywood in mayhem mode is fun)
* Unlocking new characters and new playstyles is cool. I just got the black gangster character with the uzi and he's fun to play with.
* Swapping btw characters is sort of cool
* Lots of unlockables and perks and what not
* I like that there's a hub and different difficulty to XP+cash bonus
Cons:
* The map is accessed via 2 buttons presses and its really quite irritating because you want to look at it easily. And because the map is locked away like this, it makes it really unuseful. Normally in this type of game, I'd have the world mapped out in my head already - you play any sort of open world - eg; infamous, GTAV etc - you'd remember areas. I don't remember any of the regions in this game at all. There ought to be a minimap overlay.
* The game is so fucking repetitive.
* Entering these Lairs are so fucking boring. Its the same everytime. Boring!
* you seem to be killing the same enemies all the time. I've mayhemed it to maximum mayhem and killed the final guy and reset the meter.
* Mission structure seems to be the same shit mixed up different ways
* Something about the controls especially with regards to jumping and dashing feels off
* When a character dies/drop - I can't even work out how to get the special drop/item to bring them back. But if you die after a checkpoint, they come back.
I keep coming back to it though but its a reluctance sort of return. Knowing me, I'll probably give up on it soon. I keep thinking "I wonder what I'll do to fix this game".
What's the best unlockable character?