Except for the Geo-Mod, the game is skimpy on the special effects. Most of your missions take place in urban areas, so get used to looking at dark, cement-filled areas. Enemy death effects are terrible and depending on the weapon, tend to either show someone fall to the ground or explode in an 8-bit style splash of blood. Enemy soldiers look good, but tend to all look the same, and this goes for everything else in the game as well. There are a few places in the game where Geo-Mod is used to interesting effect, such as making hallways look like that office building in The Matrix (yeah, you know what I'm talkin' bout Willis).Д®verything non-destructible looks okay - but they are nothing system pushing. Instead, Geo-Mod is used as something of a gimmick for getting around certain puzzles, like plowing through cubicles in an office to get past a motion sensor equipped machine-gun. Stow away those ideas of blasting through walls and never needing keys because that simply doesn't happen in the game.

Yes, you can destroy walls, but as you play through the game, it becomes rather clear that you are extremely limited in what you can and can't destroy.

However, it's not until you get into the game that you realize just how limiting the process really is. As a bullet point on the press release, this sounds like a cool idea. This is the case with Red Faction 2's Geo-Mod process, which allows for realistic deformation and destruction of objects such as walls. When a graphical process is one of the key gameplay elements of a game, you know that graphics are going to be a priority.

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