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OK, so I've finally had some time to play, after a chaotic stressful day at work. Initial thoughts:
The environments/lighting/etc are great. It looks and feels dark and desolate. The lighting is incredible. The music is ****ing metal pounding intensity that varies with the action. As usual, they knock it out of the park with the music sound track and effects.
The gameplay is different than the 2016 version though, and it's taken some time to get used to. They are really forcing you to use every weapon you have, and utilize each for specific purposes. Ammo is very limited in many spots. To the point you will run out of ammo in the middle of a fight with 6+ enemies. You have to utilize your chainsaw on enemies to spawn ammo, which is a permanent thing for the character, but it has limited fuel to use. The fuel regenerates over time, and you can find fuel canisters too. You also have to glory kill enemies to spawn health. Which you'll need to do in the midst of battle and move on like a John Wick scene. So it's a constant mixup of chainsawing/glory killing grunts to replenish ammo and health. You also have a badass shoulder-mounted gun that shoots grenades and works as a flamethrower. The flamethrower spawns armor shards. All of this must be done in a clever juggling act, while running around and double jumping your way out of danger. It's pretty stressful in spots. A really weird change is the regular melee punch. Which now does essentially no damage at all, just staggers the enemy for a 1/2 second. That's a big change from the 2016 version, in which I used the melee attack all the damn time, and it was so gratifying. They've completely nerfed it for some reason.
It's difficult, and requires some very fast paced strategy. The new map system is really cool though, so you can hunt down every single bonus item if you want. You slowly unlock new weapons/weapon mods/capabilities as you progress.
It's stressful, fast paced, brutal and bloody, and metal as hell. Haven't even touched the multiplayer battle mode yet...
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