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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.

A mixed bags

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: May 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm not finished the game but it's my first impression about it.

Single player :
No a lot to say, the game is a Halo 1+Unreal 1 with some fancy (and useless) new fx. In the first stage, you first mission is to find a woman inside a capsule... seem interesting but in a few minutes you are all alone killing a bunch of enemies. Why?... what's the mission?.. no mission!, no reasons!, just go ahead, kill and try to stay alive (is a hard task, cause a single grenade can kill you in no time)
The scenary is quite repetitive (may be in next level i can see more variety but i doubt about it).
The "zoom" is more like Swat4, giving some realism but bothering to any action player.
Anyways, there are vehicles, they are similar to Halo1 so it's cool and give a plus ^_^

So, i agreed with poena.dare and i'm near to uninstall it.

Level Designer :
Is AWESOME!. Is the more easyest level designer! (for fps). Is simmilar to another level designers, such Warcraft, Simcity and such, where you only need to put pieces, modify the terrain and play it!. For seasoned level designers this program can be limited and silly but, for casual players, it's worth!. You can design a level in minutes and you don't need to read the manual for it, is almost dumbproof.

So i agreed too with Sam Schuman

If you found boring Unreal1 or you dislike Halo1 then spend you money in another game. If you are a wannabe level designer then try this game.

Not much to say - old premises, new box and price

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I won't waste too much time typing what the other reviews before me have covered.

Suffice it to say -
Nothing new or exciting. Some nice graphics, but linear gameplay and so-so game AI.

Lots of hype here but nothing you have not played before. Save your money for GTA: San Andreas for PC(coming June 7th) and Call of Duty 2 and the other great games coming to pc this summer and fall.

Ehhhh

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: September 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have no idea how this game won E3 2004. It's a halo wannabe. The storyline is corny, the graphics not that great. It's something about some girl with a virus who is, pardon my french, a total b****. She runs off all the time and pops up again somewhere else.

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.

Amozon the way to go

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 16
Date: April 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have ordered things on e-bay and had to chase it down and it took alone time to get to me. I like the service you have it did not take long at all and I did not have to talk to the sender or track it down. I think I will buy from Amozon.com from now on.

PARIAH

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: November 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The lack of ability to save this game even when you want to take a break is totally absent. As far as I can tell you have to play this game all the way through at one setting in order to finish it. This makes the game totally unplayable, you end up replaying scenarios at least a half dozen times just to get back to where you were, DO NOT waste your money on this game.

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