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Good level design and clever puzzles, but frustrating combat
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User
Basically if you like Tomnb Raider, you'll like The Infernal machine. This game follows very closely the mould of Tomb Raider - jump to platforms, swim in water, solve puzzles, shoot enemeies. There are a few new additions such as the whip and chalk, but this game is very similar to Tomb Raider. Some may dismiss it as a "copy", but if you like Tomb Raider you'd be silly to turn your nose up at this.
In some ways The Infernal Machine beats the Tomb Raider series, namely in the inventivness of the puzzles. It's clear that a lot of thought went into some of them. Contrary to some reviewers, I didn't find all of them "infururiating" and with some patience and a degree of trial and error most puzzles should become apparent. Although I did have to resort to a walkthrough on a couple of occasions.
What I don't like about Infernal Machine is the combat. Auto aim is decidedly unpredicatble and you can have an enemy in close visual range and still not be able to hit him due to the quirky auto aim. There's also an annoying 2 second delay when Indy draws a weapons or tries to change weapons. Reaksitic maybe but considering that your opppnents don't suffer form ths time delay it can seem a bit unfair. I also wished for a kind of "quick roll and face in the opposite direction" move but the best Indy can do is run away and then do a quick turn, all very frustrating in the middle of combat.
Good fun overall, and there is certainly a sense of adventure to be had.
Too Hard
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User
Without all the gamer equipment, I find this game too difficult to play with a touch pad mouse. I even disabled some attack features and it's still frustrating to play, even with a cheats guide. There are different levels of skill available but even the easiest is difficult. Failure to be able to save within a section requires complete replay to eventually get through it. I'm not a spastic, but this is not fun anymore.
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