To be quite honest, you're better off without a gun. That leaves only two choices: click the mouse with all the fury in your fingers or pull out a gun. In later levels, when surrounded by four thugs and one on the rafters shooting at you, there is little time to execute any combination move or throw an opponent.

Even players that practice these moves won't always find them useful. Of course, if you are just now learning to use the WASD layout, these new moves may not be that easy to learn. New combination attacks make Konoko more fun to watch and to play. New combat moves occasionally become available, so as you progress through the game, Konoko becomes more lethal. The game obviously showcases Konoko's advanced martial arts skills at the expense of other more traditional perks, such as cool weapons. This hand-to-hand combat innovation comes at a price.

Even this doesn't allow the player to adjust mouse sensitivity. Those players are forced to come kicking and screaming to the keyboard configuration that Bungie has vainly declared standard. Sure, Bungie included a default WASD layout for right-handed players and even a left-handed layout, but they didn't take into account that PC players have grown accustomed to picking their own keyboard layouts.

In keeping with console-style thinking, however, Bungie failed to include any method for players to configure the keyboard or mouse controls. In that respect, this is one truly innovative game. The third-person perspective allows the player to battle enemies with fluidity and grace. The developers have chosen to build a game that relies too much on the console model rather than take advantage of the unique features of the PC this is important because the rest of the game is irrevocably tainted by this design paradigm, as you will soon understand. On the downside, the entirety of the game implodes because of this deliberate design flaw. On the plus side, you won't have to worry about forgetting to save your game. You also won't know how terribly tedious this game becomes in the later parts. You won't know that she is supposed to single-handedly defeat the evil forces of chaos and destruction You also won't know that she runs around warehouses stacked full of crates for the better part of the game What you don't know is that there is only one cut-scene in the whole game that pays tribute to this.

Developers envisioned John Woo two-fisted shooting with Jackie Chan jumps and rolls, all made possible through the use of a third-person perspective. This new genre promised to take the tired first-person games into new territories.

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