5.2
XIII Remake is still brimming with inconsistencies. The story is good, and the visuals have improved, but the gameplay is a bit messy.
XIII
PlayMagic LTD · Nov 10, 2020
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The President of the United States of America has been assassinated and you're the world's prime suspect. The FBI, the CIA, and a gang of murderous killers are trying to hunt you down. Stricken with amnesia you remember nothing, not even who you are. You're on your own and there is no one you can trust. All you have is a safe deposit key, a mysterious tattoo, and a gun. Clear your name, solve the mystery, and catch the true assassin before he strikes again.
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- 5.0The gameplay just isn't very interesting. There's an impressive variety of weapons — and improvising with stray chairs or ashtrays is neat — but the shine wears off as you work through the eight-hour campaign. The level design doesn't help, as it's mostly bland.
- Enemy intelligence that’s practically non-existent, an overuse on what seems like a meager, hurriedly-compiled assembly of audio and visual assets. On top of a gunplay premise that looks, sounds and feels objectively worse than that of the 2003 Gamecube original. 2020’s XIII is a broken, buggy and boring rendition of a game long-time fans deserve a better interpretation of.
- 3.0XIII Remake completely disgraces the original game by converting it into fodder for Internet memes. It’s better left to the digital wasteland of unfortunate titles that should have never existed. If you really want to play XIII as it was intended, dust off your old PlayStation 2 (or GameCube or Xbox) and scavenge garage sales for a copy of the game.
- If you were planning to buy the XIII remake, I strongly suggest you wait, at least until some of the biggest bugs in the game are addressed. Playing XIII in its current status would be nothing but an extremely disappointing experience. You’re better off reinstalling the original version of the game rather than playing this remake at the time being.
- 3.0I’m not entirely sure what players can gain from this that they couldn’t from playing the original. A remaster would’ve been a better use of time than a remake with butchered art direction, which was the original’s biggest selling point.
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XIII
i want to review original version, but didn't find it on this site. i really loved it. it was classic old game. like wolfenstein? idk.
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