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Feb 01, 2010
Almost Great
3 of 3 found this helpful On the surface, this game has it all: Good storyline, elements of several great genres of games, and if you like, breasteses! ;-) There is a lot to like about this game. Part sneaker ala Metal Gear Solid, part first person shooter, part Grand Theft Auto, and part Role Playing... All of the greats are represented here. Several other reviews have stated that while all these elements are here, none are really fleshed out, and I have to agree. I played the game the entire way through save the freeplay targets (more as to why this is later) and while I thoroughly enjoyed the game, I found myself wanting in almost each of these areas.
First, the good. The game plays well, looks great, and while some have dissed the voice acting, I didn't think it was that bad at all. I love the pseudo black-and-white of Nazi occupied areas and how they transition to color when liberated. Some of the most enjoyable parts of the game were when I completed that mission that "freed" an entire area on the map. I liked the variation in the missions, and I enjoyed playing through the stories. My biggest thrills were escaping the Nazis reminiscent of Need for Speed's evading the cops thrills in their heyday.
Now, the not-so-good. Some of the voice clips were tiresomely repeating. This is especially true of Devlin while driving. To me, it was far too easy to get caught and set off the alarm. While that isn't in and of itself horrible, it didn't appear that there were many missions that had an option of getting in and getting out without firing a shot. That has disheartening for the sneaker part of me since I loved that idea when it was played to perfection in MGS4.
Also frustrating was the save mechanism. If you start a mission and complete part of it, if you have to abandon the game as I had to several times (life, you know...) I had to restart the mission from the beginning while respawning in the closest hideout. That hideout may be on the opposite side of the map from the mission, and caused a lot of frustration in backtracking to restart the same mission I may have made it 90% of the way through. The other issue with this is that if you die during the mission, you restart from the last checkpoint with all the same ammo you had before you died. There were several times I ended up able to replenish my ammo just by dying. It seemed like I was rewarded for dying, and that didn't make much sense to me. I would like to see this changed if there is a sequel.
A pro and a con at the same time for Saboteur were the freeplay targets. There are literally hundreds of them! Each of them can be destroyed for a contraband (monetary) bonus. It's a great idea to get money, but with so many of them, you never have to worry about paying for ammo since you always have money to pay for it. You also have an unlimited supply of cars after you jack one of each type of them and return them to your garage. For cars that are a dime-a-dozen I understand that as your team can just go "liberate" another, but for unique cars, where do they keep coming from?? I welcomed that since leaving the car had no repercussions, but at the same time, LEAVING A CAR HAS NO REPERCUSSIONS!
Would I recommend this game? Absolutely! I still play even after finishing the campaign. I just want to see some of the game play tweaked if there is a sequal. That would make the game truly great.
Jul 03, 2012
Even Win7 on this tablet is tolerable. And it's a WINDOWS tablet!!
1 of 1 found this helpful Pros: Light, easy to handle, Windows 7 (or 8!) on a true tablet, beautiful display, WiDi, Full USB2, micro HDMI
Cons: More difficult than an iPad, Widescreen may throw some off, relatively low pixel count compared to some other tablets of similar or smaller size, expensive
I'm very pleased with this tablet! In fact, I am writing this review on it. It's quite peppy for its size and does what I wanted it to do. I wish it had a little better resolution so I could view a little more of my Word documents, but it's really minor after a while. I wish it had come with a keyboard/mouse option, but since you can hook up any keyboard whether it be USB or Bluetooth to it, you can take any one that's just laying around if you need one. I even plugged in an unpowered hub and was able to work several USB sticks and a HDD off of it.
The touchscreen is quite responsive, and has been a pleasure to use. I did find that the touch apps that come with it were troublesome as they took a long time to launch and didn't work as well as their standard Windows counterparts.
I also tried loading Windows 8 RC on the tablet and had several glaring issues. Both Internet Explorer 10 and Windows Explorer crashed frequently; so much so that I ended up going back to Windows 7.
Speaking of going back, for some reason, the slate ships with DVD's even though there's no DVD drive. To restore it was a real pain. I ended up copying the disks to a network share, taking a second PC and making a bootable USB, and copying the OS from the disk to the USB stick. Then, since the drivers for neither the dock NIC nor the wireless were in Windows, I had to find and install those before I could use the netowrk location to rebuild the rest of the system.
Long story short... It's a hassle to rebuild should you need to. I will grant that in the move to Win8 I deleted the recovery partition, but there's still no getting around the fact that you would need an external drive to rebuild. It would have made a lot more sense to make a bootable USB stick and put in the box. It would have cost maybe $10 to the price, but made the process a TON simpler to accomplish.
Bottom line is that the device is great. It plays movies, music, and does everything my 8 lb IBM notebook did, but does it in under 2lbs. It's a pleasure to travel with, and I haven't looked at my notebook since I've had this.