Merchants of Brooklyn

Chris Livingston, one of the best bloggers on the net, recently wrote a piece about an indie PC game called Merchants of Broklyn. Read it here.

So pretty much entirely on his recommendation, I downloaded it. I did consider buying it, briefly, but then I looked at a trailer and thought... let's try it out first.

First the good stuff: It uses the Cry Engine 2, which is one of the best engines currently around.

Bad stuff: Pretty much everything else.

It's an extremely generic FPS which doesn't use any of the potential given to it by the fantastic setting. The worst thing about it is - your guns have infinite ammunition and don't over heat. This means there can be no subtlety to the gunfights...

So yes. If you read Chris's post and were thinking of getting the game, don't.