Game Review: The Punisher

After seeing a gaming friend of mine play the game called "The Punisher" I decided to try it out myself. He plays every game on easy, and he was complaining about the bosses in this one.

I started playing "The Punisher" on medium difficulty. The first feel was just like "Max Payne" but not quite as atmospheric, but otherwise quite similar.

An annoyance is the fact when you have two shotguns and you want to change to double pistols for accurate shots, then one shotgun is always thrown away. This is a blessing and a curse, since a lot of time is wasted when reloading both shotguns during a gunfight, but both shotguns are also highly effective during a close quarters shotgun, where a single shotgun is too slow.

Once finishing a mission, there are new challenges added and to beat your own time/score. At least it isn't exactly the same replay.

So far I haven't gotten to a boss yet. From what I have seen when my friend was playing, the same problem as with "Max Payne" happens where a boss takes hundreds of bullets and the health hardly goes down, or there are only very specific things that actually work and only at certain times. What makes the boss fights even worse is the fact that other bad guys pop up the whole time and waste precious moments and health that could be used on the boss. Having to fight bosses multiple times doesn't help with this.

Overall the game seems good, but the formula is slowly beginning to get stale as well.