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Let's Get Technical
The controls proved somewhat difficult to wrap your mind around, as they're a bit different from before. You can only hold two weapons at any one time, which can be frustrating in itself, but when you're also riddled with conserving your ammunition and the fact you can't keep a stock of the Xombium you find, stuff gets intense. Perhaps they make the lack of weaponry scarce to add to the fright factor. Whenever you find your major healing source, you get healed once and then you're on your own until the next time those cute little prescription bottles find their way into your line of sight.
Another interesting quirk is the way the enemies can jump from being boring and almost repetetive to jumping out and surprising you with a triplicated difficulty. While you feel at one moment you're slogging through increasingly unintelligent AI, all of the sudden an Arsonist comes scorching towards you and you're running for a place to hide in hopes to regain just a little health before he sets your crazy ass on fire. You never expect the bosses when they're coming, you rarely ever expect anything in this game. This isn't your Mom's murder mystery novels, folks.
In essence, Ties that Bind is an experience that everyone should take at least a few days out of their schedule and try. If anything, because it's not your average zombie-shoot-zombie-findkey-zombie game. It's depth has an urban flavor to it while still keep the reality of how a mind will run itself into the ground if you go through enough loss and you are truly brought to your knees by such terror and madness. Torque's eyes will become your eyes if you let them, shirking away from the grisly murder scenes and children's cries. It literally gets that indepth.
and audibly, the game goes for the juggular and will get you where you stand. They did an outstanding job making sure that they went for the keenest of senses that they could get their hands on, while still managing to get a game out a year after the series started. The storyline is completely worth it's own comic book series and from what I've heard, MTV bought the licensing for the movie already, so maybe we'll see some of that later on down the road. It's got a great story behind it while not stretching to far into the land of the fantasy but definitely keeping within the realm of our own twisted mind's chemically enhanced hallucinations.
Get this game if you've been dying to have an experience with your console. Play this game if you've been seeking out something to give you some inspiration to pick up that pad and paper and write, grab your sketchbook and draw or perhaps if you're just really aching for a psychological thriller that will entertain you as well as enlighten you
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