Terminator Salvation has surprisingly good art direction

And

It constantly breaks up gameplay with tiny cutscenes
It keeps your weapons!!!
this is a 360 game!!!
is this beautiful? is this the best looking game ever? nah, nothing like that, but... it& #39;s a really surprising showing for that era
more color in this one screenshot than all of gears of war 1
Bizarre thing!

Sometimes you take half a second for the gun to fire when you pull the trigger. I haven& #39;t experienced this... ever?
game throws the two most annoying enemy types in video games at you:

1) flying enemies with erratic behaviors
2) enemy that needs to be tackled from behind or with grenades

really weird thing: health isn& #39;t regenerating after a long time behind cover w/o taking damage SOMETIMES
Okay so the health system is really bad. This was a bad idea and someone at the studio leadership level should have put a stop to it
here& #39;s why it doesn& #39;t work:

1) enemy weapons cannot be avoided except through cover
2) but cover doesn& #39;t stop all damage, you will take damage while in cover
3) you do not get health back at all
4) cover doesn& #39;t facilitate movement

so get lucky or die
there& #39;s an encounter where you begin by running away from a terminator, with it shooting you the whole time, I usually get to the place where I have to wait for a man to make grenades so I can do any damage at all and I only have 50% health remaining.
btw there& #39;s no arc for grenade throwing and no reticle so there& #39;s literally no way to know where your grenades are going to go--will they hit this wall? will they go straight ahead? who knows?! its different every time!
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