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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.

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.

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.

Crashes every time, no customer support

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Pariah crashes every time I start it. The bug report tool sent an email to an address that bounced. I patched it with the latest patch and it still crashes every time. This is probably the 10th game I've installed on my current computer and the only one I've had any problems with.

EDITED TO ADD:
So, I got this working. It doesn't run on dual core processors, so you need to google "processor affinity" and set it run on only one processor. Also I had to turn off full screen transform and lighting because it would turn my whole screen black every time a grenade went off. It's still a lame game. The incredibly stupid enemies stand up behind crouch cover while reloading. The levels are totally linear, you go, you shoot, repeat. Boring.

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.

5 for FPS, 4 for unoriginality. :(

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm simply a big first-person shooter fan. This title didn't offer much difference other than some pretty shweet weapons.

Over-hyped game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After reading the reviews on Amazon and other sites, I decided to try Pariah. Boy, was I duped! This is the most boring and needlessly incomprehensible game I've played in a long time. At least with other games like Halo and Far Cry, you have some idea of why you are doing what you are doing in the game. Pariah leaves you wondering (1) what is my motivation, other than just trying to survive, and (2) why am I playing this game in the first place. Just like Black, it is nice graphics-wise, but really not worth the effort or trouble required.

Pariah

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a FPS-a shooter. Some have stated this game isnt anything special. Well maybe it isnt the "best shooter of all time" but all games cant be the best. What is this game then ? Its a shooter thats fun and exciting,kind of futuristic like "Unreal II" . If you like shooters then this one is worth a try.

Gorgeous game, with only traces of sedatives

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Alright, Pariah has been around for a little while now, so the initial hype, resultant disappointment and retaliatory defense has cooled down, and now we're actually getting some fairly balanced opinions.

To start out with, this game is just beautiful graphics-wise. Even now, in the latter half of '06, this '05 game is one of the best-looking around. Using the Doom 3 engine to full effect, the outdoor environments especially are stunning. What is more, the system requirements are not too demanding, and it runs on my laptop (sporting a Radeon Xpress 200 128MB shared video card and only 512MB RAM) like a charm.

Gameplay is good, with a caveat or two. One, the single-player game utilizes a Half-Life style weapons inventory, meaning that you can actively carry and switch among seven weapons at any given time, once you have collected them. Not only is this unrealistic, but it cheapens the strategic value of the game - and makes it a little too easy - when one can pick off enemies from a great distance with a sniper rifle, then switch to the heavy firepower of a rocket or grenade launcher, and always have a submachine gun on hand to deal with any flanking maneuvers. I much prefer Halo's concept of only two weapons carried at any given time. This is remedied in the multiplayer game, however, where you choose a two-weapon load-out upon joining the game. This is a fine system, and makes the multiplayer game shine. Then there are WEC's, the upgrades for weapons, which are strategically good, and interesting. Some weapons upgrade better than others, but carefully chosen application will result in some very powerful guns.

Now for the single-player game. As has been said before, the idea behind this one is good, and promising. But the game lets you down mightily on that front: the story spirals downhill, being chaotic, incoherent, and all in all rather like someone's dim recollection of an action film ("well, then this happened... I think - no, wait, I think this happened too..."). While the voice acting is actually quite good, the dialog is poorly-written. I suspect some synthetic depressants (cough) went into the making of the story. There are some good moments, quite, but the overall scene is poor. The campaign is rather short (12 hours or so for me), but that is common enough these days.

What saves this game for me is the multiplayer game, although you will not find very many games online. But Pariah offers a practice mode with bots, whose AI, on three difficulty settings, is quite decent - definitely multiplayer AI: they run around as madly as human players on the 'net ever have. With some very decent maps and fun gameplay types, there is always fun to be had when one feels more like downing a few digital badguys than saving the world.

Then there are the editors - yes, there are two, actually, one a basic map editor useful for tweaking the multiplayer maps, and the other a full-fledged campaign editor. My skills with the latter are not overly astonishing, so I can't give it a rating, but the map editor is easy to use. Definitely some fine tools made available to the player.

How much is all this worth? Not forty dollars, to be sure. But Amazon's $10 price? Most assuredly. If you are willing to trade story for some breathtaking vistas and fine mechanics, you will want to pick this game up.

Decent Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Pariah is a decent game. The graphics are decent, gameplay is decent, the voice acting is decent, the plot is.. well you get the idea.

On the other hand it is pretty fun the play. I played it all the way through the single player campaign and enjoyed it right up to the end (more about that later). The graphics are good but not great, the level designers do a good job of mixing indoor and outdoor environments which look quite good. The engine has some limitations, such as the lack of shadows but really..is it that important?

The enemy AI is pretty standard for these types of games, the enemies hide behind things and dodge left/right and shoot at you, so it makes it pretty fun. Weapons for the most part are standard weapons, I found the lowest weapon, the machine gun to be my weapon of choice for most of the game.

The plot starts out quite interesting, you are a doctor with an infected girl being transported over a no-mans-land. Your shot down and infected. Everyone wants you (and her) and you don't really know why or who to trust. Its a pretty good storyline with a lot of possibilities, I expected to be able to watch things develop more in the cutscenes and overhearing bad guys talk, to slowly develop some strange powers as the game went along.. but sadly the promise of the story never develops. The game is strictly shoot-all-bad guys with guns..and thats fun as well.

The end-game was a real let-down though. You enter a new area, discover a bunch of new information and receive a new weapon with interesting powers. Then there is a mere 5 minutes of play through about 4 rooms before the ending..and without being specific so as not to ruin it for anyone, I thought the ending sucked..big time!

So take it for what it is, a fun shooter with an interesting premise and some good levels. Just don't expect greatness...heres hoping Pariah2 will continue the storyline and add more interest and a better engine.

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