Is SiN Worth $15 ?

DY357LX · August 2006

<div class="IPBDescription">I need a new FPS.</div>Apparently SiN has been reduced to $15 via Steam. (Thats about £8 GBP) It's also cheaper than Darwinia. :-O

So... any played it? Is it any good? How big is the download? (I hate watching Steam download slow files and updates but I'm not going to find SiN in local stores for less than £20.)

Comments here please

Quaunaut · August 2006

No.

The weapons are basic(with the pistol overpowered), the enemy AI is decent at best, and the difficulty tuning is kinda wierdly off.

The main point is a obvious one: <a href="http://www.halflife2.net/news/1147291434_hot.JPG" target="_blank">http://www.halflife2.net/news/1147291434_hot.JPG</a>

Ahnteis · August 2006

Depends on how much you think $15 is.

I thought SiN was a decent, short game and didn't feel ripped off.

I did like HL2:Ep 1 more--but I'm under no delusions that every game will be a AAA title. Of course, I also paid for <a href="http://jng.rakeingrass.com/" target="_blank">Jets N Guns</a> and Shadowgrounds. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> Both fun games.

KungFuDiscoMonkey · August 2006

I really enjoyed it (even with the bug that made it super hard ^_^. /me pokes Comprox). I really like the idea of studios releasing shorter episodes so I bought it with the intention of seeing if this system works. I found it to be a fun game even if it didn't really bring anything new to the fps genre but it was overall a pretty solid game. I bought it for $20 and I think I got my money's worth out of it.

CForrester · August 2006

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The main point is a obvious one: <a href="http://www.halflife2.net/news/1147291434_hot.JPG" target="_blank">http://www.halflife2.net/news/1147291434_hot.JPG</a>
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Geez. Millions of dollars in development time for the engine, and they waste it on a girl with pastel smears for skin and a total lack of any complicated lighting effects?

Delarosa · August 2006

my vote goes for no... but then again i'm slightly retarded.

took me 1.35 hours to "beat"... the bug ###### me off, not because it was a whole MAP missing, but because when you load the map after it, i ended up losing some ammo... which made me mad..

other than that, it's ok, nothing special, i'de suggest another game, but i'm playing war rock, in open free beta... and it's frustratingly simple and cool-ish

Comprox · August 2006

I definately got my play time out of it (thanks difficulty bug), but it was borderline worth the money in the end. It did have some good jokes and such which helped it (Pipe: the new crates, and so forth). Im still on the fence if I will buy the second episode or not.

KungFuDiscoMonkey · August 2006

I'll be getting the second one.

torque · August 2006

I didn't think it was worth $15, but I suppose I'll have to see how the rest of the episodes pan out. Paying $15-20 every episode - for 8 episodes - does not appeal to me, especially when the episodes are a) short and b) I can probably expect to see a fair amount of recycled content.

Cxwf · August 2006

I bought it at $20 and thought it was pretty decent. I would have been happier paying $15 though. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

There's only 3 guns, but each has an alt-fire mode, which actually does something noticeably different from the original, plus you get incendiary grenades. That gives you 7 distinct weapons, each of which is very useful and used for distinctly different things, so they really make good use of their weapon slots.

My only weapons complaint is with the Biogen. To explain, obviously the game lets you make use of certain terrain items as additional weapons, with exploding fuel barrels being the best example. They also have canisters full of Biogen, which heals humans and hurts mutants, so it seems reasonable that you can use those as makeshift weapons against the mutants that you encounter. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work the way you'd expect, as the damage output of a Biogen cloud is so low you'd be better off smacking the mutants to death in melee. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

The length was decent, longer than I expected really, and I have no idea how Delarosa finished it in 1-1/2 hours. He refers to a bug (which I didn't see) which removed a map though, so maybe he skipped a head a few maps using cheats. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

Swift · September 2006

To be completely honest, Sin Episodes was a big dissapointment. it showed me what all could be done with the source engine, but the gameplay just wasn't as fun as the origional. If you buy Sin Episodes, you should buy it for SiN and SiN Multiplayer, if anything, as they are pretty damn good, and SiN has a ton of good gameplay, and amazing level editing... well, I guess SiN Multiplarer does too.

DY357LX · September 2006

Interesting views there.

In all honesty I gave up on SiN and borrowed a copy of PREY off a friend instead.
It's alright but would be an even better if it didn't crash every 10 minutes.

Never mind.