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Don't be fooled by the reviews on the box!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is mediocre at best. The sory is incomprehensible, the weapons are boring, the level design is uninspiring and the game is just another 1st person clone.

The multiplayer is OK but its not much fun since there aren;t many servers to play on.

Don't pay anything more than $10 for this (new).

Didn't work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game would not load properly so I never got a chance to play it. It's not my computer because I have a new Dell with the latest drivers, ect. This company poorly engineers it's games. Thanks Groove. I find certain companies more reliable such as Blizzard, Firaxis, Sierra, and Microsoft.

need better sights on weapons...spend lots of time shooting and reloading at one enemy

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

good looking game, but poor weapon sights. fun buy it cheap before its gone.

Not Such an Outcast After All

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you're searching for a good-looking shooter with fun gameplay at a low price like I was, then Pariah is your game. Almost everything in this game seems to work well--the weapons, the levels, the sound--it's rather polished, in my opinion.

Which is not to say that Pariah doesn't have some problems. If you like a good story, for instance, then like almost all games, Pariah is lacking. I've played the entire game, and I'm still not clear what the story is about. You play a doctor who's with this woman who has some mysterious virus, and there's these evil people who want to abduct this woman. You fight these people only to betray this woman later on. At the very end you battle this other stange woman. Who she is and why you must fight her? I don't know.

It doesn't really matter to me, though, because I just want to go in there and shoot things and blow things up. You get plenty of chances to do that in Pariah with very good weapons like a sniper rifle and a very effective grenade launcher. You also have drivable, armed vehicles that are actually fairly easy to control. You can use the mouse to steer instead of the stupid strafe keys! Game developers with brains? It does happen.

What doesn't seem to happen that much is the game itself. It's very short. It's almost like a demo. A few hours and you're done.

Whatever problems Pariah may have, the game is actually very good and very fun. For the price, you can't go wrong.

Pariah=Ted Kennedy. Half-Life2=JFK - Far Cry=RFK

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

OK. A few minutes ago, I made my third attempt on the final level of Pariah. I won't be attempting it a fourth time, as I don't want to watch the 5 minute cut-scene again. My biggest gripe with this game is the Save system, and the fact that you can't skip many of the cut-scenes, even when continuing after dying. I mean, I saw the cut-scene once already, why show it to me again? Even if you DO think it's a good idea to show it again, why not give me the option to click past it?

The good news is that the environments in this game are aesthetically pleasing, the physics are semi-realistic, and the weapons are interesting. I figured out the weapons upgrade feature a few minutes before I attempted the final map. By that time, I had collected enough of the weapon mod power thingies to up all of my weapons to the max. Clearly, though, these weapon mods do not have much of an impact on gameplay. You don't NEED them to advance.

It's clear that this game is in the same family as Far Cry and Half-Life 2, as the look and feel of the game is very similar to those two titles. However, it just doesn't hold a candle to them in terms of gameplay and story-line.

All in all, though, it was an enjoyable little ride. If you have 10 hours available on a slow weekend, there are worse ways to spend them. A bargain for $10.

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