King Ronald on 30/6/2002 at 17:46
Ok, yeah, the intro IS cool, but even so it ruined loads of things! It made me completely suspicious of Walton Simons from the word go, because the moment he walked out of Manderleys office, I was like "Hey! Goddammit! I know you! You're from the intro, and you're one of the evil men!" so it wasn't any suprise there. And I knew that Bob Page was the final bad guy you'd fight, AND I knew that Maggie Chow was lying, because she was the one in the background of the intro, AND it showed me a Greasel, so when I saw another one I wasn't shocked or anything, AND an MiB, AND a couple of MJ12 soldiers, and it was pretty obvious that when he said "Primary unit" and "Secondary unit" he ment J.C and Paul. That's a hell of a lot of plot to give away in the first two minutes of the game. It doesn't matter if J.C knows about it, it matters if the player knows about it! And it is completely stupid that J.C or even Alex Jacobson (who was watching the whole time via Infolink) didn't once mention to UNATCO command that he found an underground chemical warfare factory set up by an unknown paramilitary organisation that was in the process of dumping toxic chemicals into the New York water supply, but will report a trooper for nicking some NSF munitions, despite it being quite a small thing.
The best moment in the game was either when the MiB raid Pauls apartment - straight out of the Matrix, or when you step out of the secret MJ12 base thinking "where the hell am i NOW?" and look round to see a UNATCO H.Q - level 4 sign. That's when it hits you about the size of the conspiracy, that the people you've been working for all along are just minions of the true enemy - the Majestic 12.
And no, I don't know how to do spoiler blue bar things.
