Friday 13 October, 2006

I just played again for about 40 minutes and I took over 3 purple territories with ease. Once you figure out the system to it, it becomes pretty easy. I don’t really understand my character’s motivation for senselessly killing people from other neighborhoods. I understand they are rival gangs but how does this help him save his sister and neighborhood? Forcing the player to take over so many territories one after the other is really annoying. Also, I’ve noticed that the pedestrians are all psychopathic murderers. Nearly all of them are carrying guns in this riot situation and they open fire randomly on other pedestrians. Other people are looting, carrying T.V.’s down the street to no destination in particular. The characters have very little depth but there is a pretty large variety of characters.

I think you raise an interesting issue about variety vs depth in characters. I was trying to think of games where you'd want greater variety over depth...and I'm not sure I can come up with a good example. What do you think?