Ouch. It’s a good job WWoF has bullet curving, otherwise this would have been about the most cookie-cutter, bland and generic action game going. You play as you expect, in an over-the-shoulder 3rd person viewpoint, with the ability to get into cover, move from one piece to another, pop out and shoot stuff.

 

You get regenerating health, and just about any other standard action title feature you would expect, without any innovation whatsoever. However, with your own dreadful character model, and hordes of bland, faceless enemies, it would have otherwise been like some kind of shooting gallery.

 

Luckily, the bullet curving changes this. And it needed to, because without it, even on the default difficulty level, the game would have been brutally tough. It’s not that the AI are great, although they are perfectly serviceable, but the fact that you get assaulted by so many generic duds from so many angles, locations, and other pieces of cover. Just peeking over is sometimes enough for your fairly meagre health to be totally wasted, and the recovery times are pretty harsh, and the checkpoint spacing also pretty tough.

 

 

The bullet curving does work pretty well though. Killing dudes builds up your adrenaline, and once you have enough, you can start unleashing those super-awesome shots. You get an arc to show you exactly where your bullet will go, then you let rip with devastating force.