Sanctum 2

I revised my review from negative to positive, however, I still have some grievances. Many years ago, long before I had my PC and my laptop was out of commission, I played this game's demo on my Xbox 360 all the time. I played the introduction level and the official first level over and over again. I never played the first game and never looked into it so Sanctum 2 was my introduction to everything. I finished Sanctum 1, both of it's map packs, and the Christmas and Yogscave DLCs. The difference between Sanctum 1 and 2 is big. So many systems were changed, reworked, or entirely removed and replaced (or not at all), some varying from justified to unjustified. Starting with the overall performance of the game, this game's wack. This game auto-smooths the frames since it's Unreal Engine 3. The problem with this auto-smoothing is that every menu in this game is locked at 30fps and the actual game itself is capped at 60fps. I think the game tries to combat this by smoothing the frames like a transition between the 30fps and 60fps but it just hurts my eyes. I don't like the new tower system either. Playing through a few missions, there's a cap on the towers which is 15- WHAT?? Why is there a cap on towers?? I can't just "play Sandbox mode" either because it doesn't raise your rank either so you don't actually progress in the game and unlock new weapons, towers, and perks. Speaking of the weapons, I was profoundly disappointed when playing as the sniper robot guy. Being a sniper is my favorite class in most games. Something about the sniper in this game compared to Sanctum 1, even all the other games I've used sniper rifles, something is terribly wrong with the gun in this game. At first I was extremely annoyed at the removal of the weapon upgrade system - but at least your weapons don't fall into irrelevancy 2 waves in. The weapon upgrade system got replaced by perks, which is fine. However, the perks get more and more specific over time. It goes from a general perk like "Adds lightning bounce to your shot, that deals 50% of weapon damage to a nearby enemy", to extremely situational perk like "Damaging an enemy gives you a 5% movement speed boost for 7.5 seconds. Stacks up to 60 times." It's just disappointing to level up and get an ultra specific perk like that. The maps range from great to "meh", and there were one or two ones that I could truly say I hated to play on. Later on in the game, the game gives you WAY less control over the map and it forces you to use *their* route instead of your own. A minor thing that annoyed me was that the game automatically had me set so other people can join me, and because of that "always online" thing, I can't pause the game even if I set it to a single-player.