Sunday, April 15, 2012

I Am Alive

I recently bought I Am Alive, and I was very impressed with it, there were a few flaws but I will get to that later.

I was really impressed with the stamina system, you start out with full stamina and health of course, but there is a twist, if you run out of stamina you can use something called last chance. That burns down your stamina capacity. For example if you are climbing and you think you can make it with the very little stamina, go for it, just keep in mind when you are finished you will have less stamina capacity.

The climbing was put together very well, it was great to just climb up scaffoldings and try to find a way up to the top before your stamina completely wore out. I also loved sliding down a steep embankment and having to roll over to reach a rail that I could grab on to.

The fighting scenarios were extremely tense. You had a few decisions to make during the fight scenes, and each choice had a different impact on how the fight would turn out. I really loved pointing a gun at a guy, telling him to back up, only to push him down into the deep pit.

However, there was really only one action if you wanted to *struggle kill* someone and it did tend to get repetitive. Sometimes it was hard to figure out where to go, especially in the heavy dust. The climbing also was all predetermined points, it felt like you were following a system without a ton of freedom.

Overall, even though this games was only about 5 hours and didn't have that replayability value for me, I was really impressed and had a lot of fun with it.


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