you can feel the development hell in the game design.
They had a cute idea about a bullet-time shooter, but didn't realize that even with the slowmo mechanic realistic bullet velocities are too high for any reasonable ability to dodge if you're running at immersive modern shooter crippled movespeed. Rather than compromise with increased movespeed and partially reduced bullet velocity and proper level design to have a slow-mo, but still fast-paced game, they simply dropped bullet velocity until the design was vaguely playable and very "cinematic".
Even after their lazy escape from dev hell they could have reskinned the game so that these slow projectile launchers were dart guns or bow-and-arrows or some shit, but instead they farted out this retarded shit and the tasteless hipsters said thank you daddy anyway. The assault rifle is literally shittier than a paintball gun.
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