Platform: Xbox 360
Time played: 100 minutes
Session fun rating: 8/10
This game keeps impressing me. I rode through a vehicle sequence, manning a giant machine gun and reached Dom's wife's home town where there is supposed to be fuel. The section was different than the rest of the game, there was a lot of walking around with nothing happening for a while, mostly to set the mood for the revelation that unfortunately, there are lambent humans.
So we fought them when they attacked us. It's too bad though, they are pretty boring to fight. They are the stupid gaming trope of "dumb enemy that rushes you in groups without thinking or strategizing". BORING! Either way, we fought our way to a church where Dom found Maria's grave. We figured out that the immulsion fuel was causing humans to turn lambent.
Then it happened. I won't spoil the details but this was one of the best cinematic moments in video game history. Music, visuals, characters and cinematic camera angles all came together gracefully to convey emotion and sadness. Every gamer should see this, really.
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| Ice-T even has gold guns yo! |
Moving on, we couldn't get the fuel we needed so we headed to the next city, Char. This one of the places where the Hammer of Dawn hit when humanity was trying to rid the world of the Locust. We explored the city and found a group of people, including their leader, Griffin, which is played by Ice-T. He really does a good job of playing, well... himself.
He captured Dizzy and says he will give us some fuel if we repair one of his cable cars. We then headed out, fought plenty of Lambent and reached his cable car.
