Soul Reaver 2 Demo

I'm presently playing through the demo.

The control interface of the first SR was weird, but once you got the hang of it was rewarding and cinematic, especially in fight sequences. In SR2 you have the option of configuring the controls to be basically the same as SR1 (except without the pan left/right camera controls, which is disappointing) but the interface of choice is meant to be the mouse.

The mouse is even weirder, and even harder to control, but after a few minutes I realized how much better it was than the old keyboard config. Raziel can now dance and dart between foes, combining movement of the mouse with attacks. Another plus is that using the mouse solves an old problem with the first game - many keyboards can't support more than three keypresses at once, and Soul Reaver liked combining keys. Using the mouse gets around this.

It's also possible to have your standard forwards-backwards-left-right controls running while you're using the mouse. It might actually be possible to control Raziel's exploration using something very similar to an FPS control setup. I think. I'll have to check.

Combat is a little chunky, not as smooth as the original - or course, that's probably because of my crappy system. The greater variety of moves and combat tactics are a definite help.

Well, I'm still playing. The biggest obstacle to SR2, I think, is the alien interface.

I don't like the controls at all, as they're a direct copy from the PS2 version. Graphics are sharper, cleaner, but I got used to the somewhat blurry image on my TV. Ahh, well...

My biggest gripe is they removed the coolest cutscene from that part of the game. It was kind of a disappointment to reach William's chamber, not to see Raziel... err.. yeah...

Favorite quote from the demo:
"It is strange how my history came full circle." -- Heh... He has no frellin' clue...

omg. i'm currently playing the first one on my playstation. hopefully, the grpahics will be better on the pc port

Just completed the demo. I haven't played the first one, so I basically went at this as another third-person action title.

Movement was a little awkward and not being able to remap the move sideways/backwards movements from the original arrow key positions was a disappointment. You can remap the forward key, which I guess means that the developers assumed you'd pay attention to that and using mouselook to turn. But when it comes to trying to backtrack or dodge attacks, it's trouble. Jumping and floating is fun.

Fighting seemed difficult. I had a problem hitting enemies because I wasn't exactly able to hold a point of contact. Sometimes the character blocked the way, sometimes my attacks carried me past the enemies. The biggest problem was trying to hit enemies in itself though, as most attacks just seemed to glace off and push the offender to the side. Picking up weapons was fun, but didn't really add anything offensively.

I really liked changing into that other world. The way the level morphed and tilted when in transition was very neat. The level geometry was very nice in general, as were the textures.

Not sure if I'd play the full game through. The usual big draw for me, the fighting, was frequent but was tough due to having problems making punches and such connect.

What kind of game is this? Anybody? Anybody?

Ok, I was a Soul Reaver freak with the original. I'm downloading, will play, and comment extensively.

Later.

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