The close-in perspective, with levels crammed with choke-points rather than the vast open spaces of the original, makes for a more frantic, linear experience that single players will find restrictive.
While the main game is an often frantic, confusing experience, Challenge Mode - kill as many people as you can, and other such targets - is stupidly enjoyable - particularly if you play as Xiahou Dun, an eyepatch-wearing warrior armed, apparently, with a giant swizzle stick.
This balanced approach to daily life may contrast rather sharply with the frenzied and frantic daily experiences of many Americans in an age in which some persons are forced to hold two or three poorly paid jobs, while other persons wallowing in wealth.
But it was the 1972 Thief in the Night, combined with Larry Norman's 1969 terrifying song "I Wish We'd All Been Ready" and Hal Lindsey's nearly incoherent 1970 book The Late Great Planet Earth, that shocked many hippy-era evangelicals into frantic "conversion experiences".
That said, the action does feel very different to CoD's tighter, more frantic skirmishes – rewarding experience and teamwork over individual heroics – something DICE will hopefully nurture and build on once the servers start filling up.
By removing the excess stuff that you really never wear, it suddenly becomes a pleasure to get dressed in the morning instead of a frantic and frustrating experience.
The overall experience is frantic and hilarious (and also free).
There were no fairytale endings for this pair while Adil Rashid, throughout a frantic afternoon and evening, experienced more agonising ups and downs than Sisyphus.
Dinny and his two sons daily re-enact a bogus account of the family history and the immigrant experience that involves frantic disguise and dressing-up.
A few weeks into the experience, I got a frantic call at work.
