With Aguero out, Manchester City
lack variety upfront but their trio
of Sterling, Jesus and Sane looks in
absolute peach form with De Bruyne pulling the strings from midfield.
Because - and especially in their assessments - they tend to reflect familiar categories: The sharp and often distorting distinctions among and between «subjects»; age grading; the value placed on quick recall; the dumbing down
of the quality and grace
of expository prose to make it fit into some sort
of rating scheme; the overload
of material to be covered, usually the inevitable result
of intracommittee ideological logrolling, which leads to a bit
of this and a dollop
of that; the almost
absolute denial
of a value placed on individual ingenuity, craggy but provocative thinking, sustained work, and desirable
variety; the
lack of interest, signaled by the assessment apparatus,
of the virtues
of fairness, good character, and imagination.
Even if they didn't feel quite as quick off the line as the old XR6T — probably because
of the
absolute lack of wheel spin with traction control on or off, in Sport mode — subsequent runs on different surfaces throughout the day were the same or a tenth or two slower, proving the XR6 Sprint is consistently quick in a
variety of conditions.
Even if Frank's Big Package adds more
variety of weapons and more interesting boss encounters, the game still
lacks a sense
of absolute freedom
of action that was present in the original game.