chromeの続編ですが(ゲームの時系列はchromeより以前)前作より良かった点悪かった点があると感じました

前作より良かった点

・体力アイテム、neuralアイテムを消費すると前作はゆっくりとまるで他のFPSゲームの自動回復みたいな遅さでゆっくりと回復しましたが今作は三秒ほどで全快になります。なので前作はほぼ無理だったゴリ押しプレイが可能になっており後述のインプラントシステムの刷新とあわせて作業感ありありだった前作と比べたら爽快感は段違いです。

・インプラントシステムが刷新されインプラントを起動したまま時間切れになってもダメージを食らわないようになったのでいちいち解除するわずらわしさがなくなった

・前作でインプラントモードで命中率上昇モードとズームモードがありましたが、それを使わないとまともにズームも命中もままならないものでした　今作ではその二つが無くなり、プレイヤーはインプラントを使わなくても他のFPSと同じような命中率、ズームが可能となりました。

・手榴弾が投げられないバグが起こらなくなりました。前作は時々手榴弾を投げようとしても手のひらに収まったままになるというバグが起きましたが、今作では一度も発生してません

・インベントリサイズの拡大・・・前作より体感的には1.5倍ぐらいのサイズになり整理すれば大型武器二つ入れられるほど余裕ができるようになり、いちいち整理する事ななくなりました

悪かった点

・エイムアシスト機能・・・標準装備のアサルトライフルを用いてクリアしましたが、銃を構えると敵がいる位置に赤い丸印が表示されます。一見便利そうで実際かなり役立ったのですが、ゲームとしては面白さをそぐものであると感じました。敵の居場所が分からなくてもかまえて辺りを見回せばすぐ発見できるし、敵が木の葉に隠れてよく見えないときでも赤い丸印の真ん中を撃っていれば簡単に死にます。前作はほんの少しの距離内でしか敵の位置は表示されず、しかも画面下部のレーダーサイト上だったのでかなり位置がぶれたりしてある程度スリルある仕上がりになっていたので残念でした

・neural gageの自動回復の消滅・・・neural gageとは前述の能力を一時的に高めるインプラントモードを使用してる時に消費するものでこれが0になるとインプラントは使えなくなります。前作は自動回復したので使いすぎても待っておけば再びフルで使えたのですが、今作は1mmもアイテムを使わなければ回復せず、しかもそのnerural回復アイテムが終盤になるまで本当希少なものとなっておりどんどん使おうという意欲が薄れてしまいます。

・体力回復アイテムの多すぎる量・・・neural回復アイテムとは打って変わって、体力回復アイテムはかなり出ます。その量は他のゲームに比べやや多めだった前作をはるかに上回ります。前作ではピンチになった時死体を漁っても回復アイテムがなく落胆することが幾度かありましたが今作は九十数％と思う程殆どの兵士が持っており、大体二つなのでどんどんたまります(一応mediumでやりました)。優しすぎると難易度が低くなってつまらなくなると言われますが、まさにこのゲームがそうです

・ミッション開始前の武器選択の消滅・・・前作はミッションを始める前にグレネードランチャーロケットランチャーなど多彩な武器が選べ自分好みの装備で始められましたが、今作はミッションを始める度に標準アサルトライフル+拳銃(非サイレンサー)+neural回復アイテム一個+体力回復アイテム２個になるので戦術の幅が狭まってしまいました

・三面のラストのシャトルでの逃走が長すぎであの半分の長さでもよかったんじゃないかと。銃もうてなかったし

・以上のヌルゲー化によりインプラントのステルスモードがほぼ無価値になっています。というか消えてても撃ってくることがよくあったので何のために存在してるのかよくわかりません

以上が私の今作の感想ですが総評としては今作のみをやるならおすすめできますが前作からやられている方にはストーリーが気になるとかでない限りおすすめできません。私も前作をプレイしてなければ満足したのではないかと思います。

A shooter that came out in 2005. A standalone expansion to an apparently acclaimed game. Graphics have come a long way from then. Gameplay is archaic, and map flow doesn't stand up like Deus Ex does. It is one of those games where you get a game over for accidentally shooting your ally. I think I am too spoiled by modern gaming to go back to games like this. It has implants and an inventory similar to Deus Ex, but the characters are not as interesting and I got stuck before finishing the game.

Throwing grenades in these old games is so awkward.

★★★★☆


If you enjoy FPS's, and don't mind the dated graphics? This is an old school shooter that's well worth a play-through. You're able to use various weapons, drive various vehicles, and operate different sized mechs with rockets and machine guns. Once you learn the controls and menus it's actually a really fun game for the money. You don't have to have played the first game "Chrome", but it is also a fun, often overlooked game. The music's good, the graphics are also good for the time, the voice acting is alright, and the story is decent also. The sniper parts in the game are good, but the ability to operate the mechs is what I wish they had done more of. I actually saw a couple of dedicated servers running multiplayer with around 10 people playing. I saw a patch to update the graphics to HD online, but I didn't look further to do that since I was almost finished with the single player campaign. If you can snag this for under $3.00? I have games that can't even compete with quality, and just plain fun that I've spent more on. Get it. I really don't believe you will be disappointed. And it never, ever, crashed even once on me. I'm running a Win 7 64bit rig. If you do have trouble getting this to run on yours? Check my solution on how I got mine to run. Very easy fix! Boy I wish they still made games that keep you glued to it like this one. You will invest time in it quickly and not even realize how much has passed.

Decent storyline, good gameplay, ok characters, cool locations, semi-open world (*1), ok soundtrack, good combat system, 3 or more difficulties to choose from. "Its like and early Crysis with slightly less features"

Bad touches: i had a couple problems with display resolution which were bad enough to render me unable to play the game, multiplayer is dead -- *1: semi-open world because most of the time you are following a partner

Game would run on a broken calculator just fine.

7/10 overall, "would waste hours organizing my inventory again"

As a "prequel" follow up to the first Chrome, Chrome - Specforce holds up surprisingly well. Many of the annoying glitches I had with the first game were non-existant with this one, in addition to simply feeling much better mechanically.

It may not have as much variety in the campaign as the first game, or as good a story, but it has better controls and it does what I consider the core of the game better: shooting. It is also a little more forgiving in terms of difficulty than the original is.

Definitely worth a grab on sale.

Its pretty interesting how the prequel is even MORE intense than the original. Not to mention its more fun than the original as well. The original Chrome game is still a challenge though nonetheless. This is less difficult than the original, but has some changes that allows us to get through easier, less frustration when playing on the highest difficulty.

Here are some changes i noticed while playing.

Crosshair is smaller, easier to shoot from far distance.

The abilities are less and no longer rechargable, you have to find an item that recharges your blue meter. Instead of worrying about it raising it up, you have to worry not to lower it (as in waste it), but you dont lose damage if you waste it.

Some abilities made a return, and there are some new ones.

The eye ability is no longer in this game, instead it'll happen when you aim down sights on non scope guns, easier for you to kill from long range making the fight fair.

If you played the original and worried about the changes, dont worry. Its not as bad as you think as i completed it much quicker than the original.

Keep in mind, this game is a prequel. Not a sequel, you play as the same character as well, which is Logan (Pointer returns as well).

Buy it, it'll be worth your time playing this. If you played Chrome, you'll enjoy this.

Nowhere near as interesting as Chrome, but it's still fun to shoot guys with scifi guns. That's about all you do though.

This game is a pretty nice follow-up to chrome

the good:
-great gunplay and powers
-bullet time
-very good graphics for its time that still look good today
-challenging

the bad:

-you need to manually save a lot
-still kind of unbalanced at times
-big pacing issues, especially at the tutorial level, which lasts long but is quickly forgotten.

Most of all, this and chrome both look great once the widescreen patch is applied and can easily downsample from 4k. My biggest problem? Dying so much that I have to save. It's a very hard game, but still has the charm and campiness of the rest of the european shooters, like Chaser, Ubersoldier, etc.

Worst than first Chrome

+ bigger inventory
+ more missions with vehicles

- no cutscenes.. just text briefing before mission
- more linear
- same noob AI than first game, but now you have team.. (when your dumb teammate die game is over)
- cannot choose your equipment before mission anymore
- game is short

4/10, go play Chrome

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