[Locke]

Finally got my copy!

It's kinda insane how much the cold open colours expectations the following few hours of gameplay simply don't fill. I'm not saying what follows is bad, but it's been very different to how it opened so far.

The game is fairly generic, feeling like a hastily taped together mass of horror film tropes and whatever games have been popular in the last year or two. Everyone raves about this games writing so I guess the good stuff comes later.

The graphics are really kinda poor. Everyone is animated awkwardly, this is one of the first times in recent memory where cutscenes look drastically different to the actual in game graphics and levels are pretty much entirely linear but give you the illusion of space which actually makes it worse and dates the game pretty insanely.

Still though, bar chucking objects and some frustrating difficult spikes, the gameplay is largely spot on. From the great melee, to the tight stealth, to a game that really captures the intensity and vulnerability of an average joe just trying to survive, navigating through action sequences has been fun and varied.

Also Joel looks like Gerard Butler but haggard and sexy.