Ps3 i am alive
The problem is that you need to be quick with your shots before the enemies get a shot on you, or you are pretty much screwed. There’s a pattern to killing a number of enemies like waiting for one to approach, slit his throat, grab his ammo and then use it on the guys with guns, then intimidate the ones with melee weapons so you can knock them out.
The AI is far from clever though and will forget you have a gun if you pull it down for a second and will attempt to attack you only for them to cower in fear when you raise it again. The idea behind combat is using the pistol to scare the locals so you can kill them with your blade when you are close, then gaining ammo to shoot those with guns. Adam is armed with a pistol, but it rarely has ammo. On your travels through Haventon, you’ll come across locals that will attack you. There are moments in the game where you have to slide down ramps and roll to grab onto pipes, which is also poorly thought out and irritating to handle. The controls are also unresponsive at times, which can cause more deaths than you’d want, and if that wasn’t bad enough…you only get a few lives and you can only get more by finding them or helping people. It’s really tiresome and annoying to climb, it’s no Assassin’s Creed/Prince of Persia that’s for sure. Adam can climb structures, but at the cost of stamina and once the meter runs out, he’ll start to lose health until he dies or unless you put an object on the wall to let him rest for a second. Gameplay consists mostly of climbing and combat. It’s a shame that a strong setting and a nice plot became an afterthought in the end. It sounds like a gripping plot, and it starts out that way with Adam recording his ordeal through a camcorder, but unfortunately the game’s story switches from him searching for his family to a bunch of fetch quests like getting medicine for a sick girl atop a large building and so on. The city has been left devastated by something called “The Event” which has caused Earthquakes and left killer dust clouds and storms, while a resident called Adam returns a year after “The Event” to find his family. The story takes place in the fictional New York town of Haventon. Then it’s announced that it’s shifted from retail to a download-only title, which didn’t go down well with those who have followed the game’s progress. I Am Alive has been in development for quite a few years, and when nothing new regarding it was coming forward, many assumed it had been cancelled.