11-20-2006, 03:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-20-2006, 04:36 PM by Rhydderch Hael.)
Well, the game is rated 'M' for a very good reason, but the Options menu has a selection to turn on or off some 'extreme content'. Curious as to what happens, I did a quick run with this feature switched off.
All it does is reduce the blood splatter from a hit and prevent characters from being decapitated/dismembered in battle. All of the gore in scenery remains in place. So in truth this option does nothing to reduce the maturity ratingâ just reduces the fun factor. ;) (Though it is a mite embarrassing to watch your own character get turned into hamburger).
I mention this because early the Nightfall chapter you come to a point where you face a Troika machine-gun nest covering an overpass. You're supposed to use this rolling wreck of a car as a shield in order to close the gun and take it out with grenades or small-arms fire (this is well before you gain your first sniper rifle). Well, with me and my team pinned down on the far end of the bridge, I muttered "Screw that!" and instead broke out the Boomshot I procured from the remnants of a Locust Boomer earlier in the evening.
My first shot went high and exploded against the building behind the machine gun. My second Boomshot found the mark. The Locust who was manning the gun fell apart into a bunch of pieces: one small, round gib that I knew had to be the monster's head shot a good hundred feet straight up into the air before gravity overcame kinetic energy and brought it back down again.
In my mind's eye, Fenix stood up from cover and repeated a remark he made in Chapter 1: "Thatâ was satisfying."
But when it comes to unconventional weapons deployment, nothing beats breaking out the laser designator atop the rooftop of Parliament and laying the Hammer of Dawn down on all the Locust in the street in front of the Tomb. Imagine what goes through the mind of a Locust footsoldier as he's being chased around by a bright yellow beam of energy that's streaking down from the sky. Ant under a magnifying glass, indeed.
All it does is reduce the blood splatter from a hit and prevent characters from being decapitated/dismembered in battle. All of the gore in scenery remains in place. So in truth this option does nothing to reduce the maturity ratingâ just reduces the fun factor. ;) (Though it is a mite embarrassing to watch your own character get turned into hamburger).
I mention this because early the Nightfall chapter you come to a point where you face a Troika machine-gun nest covering an overpass. You're supposed to use this rolling wreck of a car as a shield in order to close the gun and take it out with grenades or small-arms fire (this is well before you gain your first sniper rifle). Well, with me and my team pinned down on the far end of the bridge, I muttered "Screw that!" and instead broke out the Boomshot I procured from the remnants of a Locust Boomer earlier in the evening.
My first shot went high and exploded against the building behind the machine gun. My second Boomshot found the mark. The Locust who was manning the gun fell apart into a bunch of pieces: one small, round gib that I knew had to be the monster's head shot a good hundred feet straight up into the air before gravity overcame kinetic energy and brought it back down again.
In my mind's eye, Fenix stood up from cover and repeated a remark he made in Chapter 1: "Thatâ was satisfying."
But when it comes to unconventional weapons deployment, nothing beats breaking out the laser designator atop the rooftop of Parliament and laying the Hammer of Dawn down on all the Locust in the street in front of the Tomb. Imagine what goes through the mind of a Locust footsoldier as he's being chased around by a bright yellow beam of energy that's streaking down from the sky. Ant under a magnifying glass, indeed.
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