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v2.0 TL;DR: New guns and attachments are nice, but the new sounds are an insult to your ears.



Man, the game was actually "okay" before 2.0 dropped. I gave the game a second chance after the downgrade from 1.7, especially with the new contents over the years like the new guns, Mercenary gamemode and weapon manipulation mechanics.

And now 2.0 came.

A whopping 13 new guns and new or revamped attachments? Nice, very nice. What did it cost? The G3A3 and M1911. What? Okay fine, you're doing it for the lore.

Umm okay, oh. New gamemode? Retrieval. Oh, you just took the Extract mission from Mercenary, but that's fine.
Okay, reworked Downfall? Hmm, why does it look so cold/blue? Isn't this supposed to be a desert? Well, whatever.

All right, let's shoot this AKM...Oh god...why do you sound like that? And racking your bolt sounds so plastic, what happened to your metallic sound.
OK fine, MK18. Let me click your bolt releas-...Ew, what is that sound? My mouse button sounds more convincing as a bolt release than that.

Oh right, the new operators. Uh, whatever I guess. Would have preferred proper outfit customisation. But maybe the implication is Story mode soon? Maybe?

Sadly, I don't think i'll be around to find out.

Easy dumb fun.
Pretty much everything has physics and you can experimenting different combinations with the items.

*Sidenote: Just a lil warning, if you have SteamVR installed, the game will boot up with SteamVR (oops).

EDIT: In the properties panel of Ethereal Estate, you can add "-nohmd" in the Launch Option to prevent SteamVR from launching :)

Defeated Magnavox, you could say he Magnafailed.

*magna in Latin means great apparently

If you like getting annoyed or getting booted or outright getting game crashed by modders, enjoy Grand Theft Auto Online.

If not, go play FiveM.

As for Single Player? With mods, hella fun since R* won't bother updating Single Player.

So wow, much physics. NVIDIA PHYSX/10
Waiting for sequel Totally Accurate Global Offensive

You know your multiplayer is bad when the Open Beta has hackers.

On a serious note, there are a few positives I can point out coming from Black Ops 2 on PS3.

First off, the interface is a little different from past games. It's more "Tab" and feels a little more organised. However, it needs a lot of improvement (Party members in a different tab?!). I also feel that there's a poor use of space. There are a lot of empty space that could be used to display information or more.
The gamemode "War" is actually pretty cool, which is pretty much Rush from the Battlefield series, except with a variety of objectives instead of MCOMs or something. Larger scale and more players (Ground War amount of players) would be cool.
However, it won't to compare BF1's Operations.

Other than that, I'm pretty much on the same boat as everyone else...

That said, if you're a COD fan, you'll most likely enjoy this game. It's pretty much the same game you loved for decades.
But seriously, dedicated servers please...

Simple, but EXTREMELY addictive.
There's a reason why there's a big competitive scene for this game.
The game is very easy to pickup, but extremely hard to master it.
You may be able to achieve a few advanced tricks, but it'll take a crazy amount of practice.

Man...this game...

Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons will carry you to the feel train all the way. The game does not restrict itself. You will experience all kinds of emotions from joy to sorrow.

The game also has beautifully done sceneries combined with creative and unique characters.

Controls are very simple and puzzles are fairly simple. I recommend using a controller since it feels more natural.

Overall, Brothers is a worthy experience. I would not recommend to persons that want gameplay over story. It is more of an "experience" just like Journey and Flower. If you want an interesting and engaging story, definitely try it out.

10/10
Haru is incredibly OP in this game.