Finished last night.
I think it's a great game, and I have it firmly as my #2 downloadable title of the year. It has really fun and fast paced combat, all the different weapons are great. Wave survival and proving grounds are fun distractions. The narration, art, and music are all superb. I think they did a really good job with level variety as well. A lot of different environments, plus you usually come across a new weapon or enemy or 2 in each one, and they like to put in a gameplay twist or 2 somewhere in there for a lot of the levels, the game stays fresh throughout.
It is a bit short obviously, I would have liked maybe 2 more hours or so,. it's only 6-8, but it's a great experience throughout. The story has its moments, a few most notably near the end, but it hits a lot of lulls. Theres tons of backstory about the world itself that will be fed to you that is pretty cool, but the actual story is a bit lacking. I'd say the only thing that keeps me from putting it right at Outland level is the lack of any truly great moments from a gameplay perspective. This isn't necessarily a big flaw at all, since the game is fun all the way, but it doesn't have those few crazy awesome moments/fights (like Outland's boss fights) that are truly memorable.
Oh and another tiny flaw, leaderboards are awful! I have no idea how the single player story score is calculated! Kind of annoying. The survival modes have leaderboards too, but they are based solely on the amount of difficulty enhancers you put down. Time/etc isn't factored it seems. So basically, brad shoemaker will be #1 on all the leaderboards forever.
Still, great game, highly rec it, will be playing New Game+ today probably!
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