Introduction

Pariah is just like your average first person shooter having you kill off multiple enemies, drive and crash vehicles and defend at least one thing the entire game. Well Pariah pulls through on that accord. Your task whether you play or not is to transport your infected patient through the various levels, collecting and utilizing the weapons offered.

Gameplay

Pariah doesn’t really offer any solid gameplay. The storyline is rather weak with no variation in tasks presented, find the enemy, kill the enemy and protect the girl. The battles are short lived and over gunned, setting you against a whopping 2 enemies each fight. There is a small array of weapons at your disposal, and ammunition is just about everywhere, making the challenge a simple sense of looking about.

The controls are the real let down in this case, making it hard to aim the simplest of shots. The response time when looking about is sluggish even at the highest sensitivity and if held long enough your vision darts from side to side losing sight of your intended target. Vehicles also present a challenge to drive with highly sensitive controls, the complete opposite side of the control spectrum. Each vehicle turns on a dime, which in reality isn’t supposed to happen and big clunky vehicles that should make corners harder just instantly turn, confusing, I know. Vehicles can also be easily flipped and have a gun built into your steering so driving and shooting, well that’s out of the question.

Graphics

Not much can be said for the graphics. They are well represented in game with destructible effects on just about every area of terrain. Vehicles are also sporting the destructible feature; I must say they look rather pretty when you’re blowing up oncoming enemies.

Now on the other hand you have the cinematics, yikes, what happened there? The lip synching is completely off and it looks like the characters are speaking some sort of foreign language.

Sound

Boom, the sound is the only real area Pariah holds it together. Explosions sound real enough making you drop for cover while the noises blare around you in 5.1 Surround Sound. The voice overs were done well enough, although the lip synching technically butchered them, drawing your attention to whatever it is coming from the on screen characters.

Overall

Pariah is a boring game in general, each battle only takes a couple seconds to work your way through and are far to spread out. You will constantly be walking into items all over the map adding to the already present frustration. The game is already rather cheap to buy so if you’re looking for a quick thrill, I guess you could give this a go; don’t say I didn’t warn you.