Picked this up in Game. Paid fifteen quid after using my reward points.

The core game is excellent, I reckon. Really nice feel to it, great fun. Bit tricky to pinpoint headshots, but then I’ve never been the most accurate of marksmen. Lots of flying bullets, weighty guns. Very nice.

However, however, however…

We’ve never needed the Blue Sky In Games campaign more. Apart from the green health bar I might as well be running this on a black and white TV. I had no idea they were going to take the game’s name quite so literally.

No checkpoints. Well, there probably are, given there’s an option for them on the menu you get when you die, but I’ve not seen one yet. The first mission didn’t have any. (I know because the last bloody enemy killed me the first time I tried it.) The second one might do, but they must be a long way in. Too far in. You have to trek through a forest to a border crossing and then fight your way through it. So I get to the border crossing and die. Trek through the forest again. Die in exactly the same place. Trek through the forest again…

You get the idea. Surely a checkpoint when you reach the border crossing wouldn’t be too much to ask? I’m only playing on Normal, too.

Also: Unskippable cut scenes. And not just unskippable the first time you watch them. Every time. That’s really idiotic and annoying. That and the checkpoint thing led me to switch the game off just now and play OutRun 2 instead.