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This game is like Halo without the guns which might sound lame but it is actually sick. I like the parts where you punch aliens and [spoiler]drive your car[/spoiler]. Officially adding “loves long drives in the desert” to my bio.

While I really enjoy the concept of the game I sadly think it's not thought through enough to be fun. At first, I played on Normal difficulty which is the second highest difficulty level out of four. After dying a bunch of times to the second fight I switched to Easy. But even on the lowest difficulty I would die again and again in the first level. Which wouldn't be a big issue if the level had checkpoints or if there was a save feature. But the game has neither which means you need to beat each level in one go. But in order to do that you need to defeat a few dozen enemies who shoot at you with laser rifles and the only weapons you have are your fists. Since there are games where first-person melee combat is really fun – Fallen Aces is a great example! – I thought I would be able to enjoy this game as well but the problem is that enemies deal a lot of damage, even on Easy and there are not a lot of opportunities to heal. Combined with the weird CPU behavior and the fact that you are almost always outnumbered at least three to one makes this not very fun to play. I always tried to lure the enemies into the room I came from to fight them one by one which would work sometimes but of…