The thing that attracted me to this title was my curiosity. I was unsure what to class it as, and am still after countless hours of fun and frustration unable to figure out what this game wants to be.
It is for the most part a first person game that requires you to pull of death defying leaps of faith to get away from the people policing your world. It is breathtaking if you can get to grips with the flow and controls and quite annoying when you can't. It is fairly easy to pick up and start, giving the gamer a starting level that is short and light on difficulty. This however will very soon progress into challenges that will take a retry or two before you figure it out. The environment is stunning in my opinion. Set upon the very bright rooftops of a future city broken up by quite varied internal portions that are all very clean and minimalist. The combat system is almost non existent requiring you to disable your foe quickly and then choose to either be a pacifist and keep running or engage the enemy with the gun of your stunned victim. This however is not advisable as the guns have almost no ammo and aiming and being precise can be a problem when you have up until now gone with the flight not fight option and are almost panicked into shooting quickly just so that you can get the hell out of there.
The story is quite simple and almost a side note to the game. The cut scenes are animated differently giving it a cartoon quality which adds to the feeling of separation between game play and story.
This soundtrack works really well mixing the sounds of traffic on the street with a subtle abient background track.
The game as a whole works well for all the dissection that can be done to it and only loses points on the basis that this was a trial almost on the developers part as this has to be one of the most innovative and original ideas to come to the next-gen consoles, so you can forgive them for being wary and making this game shorter and simpler than I would have liked. More games are in the pipe works so I have no doubt this will all be built upon.
A solid game that fills you with satisfaction when you nail it.
