Wilson says that while conducting his research for the report, he had
difficulty getting straight answers from some companies, especially when it came to questions of profitability.
Dan Cohen at the Geardiary.com blog goes into great detail sharing a blow - by - blow description of
his difficulties getting a straight story from Amazon -LSB-...]
If you have
difficulty getting a straight answer, that alone should be a warning.
Not exact matches
On the face of the game it seems pretty
straight forward, but once you
get started you will find out very quickly (even on lower
difficulty settings), this is not a basic game.
He chronicles the broader political and religious tensions in the area (it would be impossible not to) but also focuses on the day - to - day nature of acclimating to a new city and culture, depicting the madcap adventures of
getting the kids to and from school, the endless search for a good playground, and the
difficulty of keeping the schedule
straight of which days Jewish, Muslim, or Christian shops are open.
This is more apparent when talking about the
difficulty of the game too, as it's not just a
straight up arcade game where you can rely on riding guard rails to
get round corners, as FlatOut 4 does incorporate some realistic physics, this combined with the extremely aggressive AI will lead to a lot of restarts as quite often you'll be rounding a corner with the chequered flag in sight, only to be spun out by one of the AI, or hitting an imperfection in the road sending your car into a snake only for the back end to come around on you.
Now, once you've selected the «
Straight White Male»
difficulty setting, you still have to create a character, and how many points you
get to start — and how they are apportioned — will make a difference.
Those weaned on Ninja Gaiden or God of War may prefer to head
straight for the hardest
difficulty settings, but while you can unleash combo after combo, there's no ability to chain your attacks meaning that brutal hack and slashing (in conjunction with a lot of blocking)
gets the job done more often than not.
This is not only a fun experience, but it may actually be more fun then the actual game, because now you bypass all of the real
difficulty of the story mode and just
get straight into the pure action of the game.