4.1.9  Oni

        [3rdPP combat-action, Bungie, 2001]

        PROS: Great fighting moves. Excellent camera control system.
              Good AI. Large levels.
        CONS: Slight autoaim on gunplay. Complete lack of Lara-like
              'exploration' moves.  Uses DirectX.

        More of a beat-'em-up really. Oni follows the adventures of a
        female police officer called Konoko who is out to bring down an
        organised crime syndicate. It's based very heavily on the
        excellent epic manga Ghost in the Shell and does capture some
        of that movie's ambience quite well. Despite some fantastic
        fighting moves Oni really falls down in the exploration
        department -- it comes down to just wandering around the large
        emptyish levels beating people up in a certain order -- even the
        gunplay is deliberately kept limited due to the seriously low
        ammo situation.  Otherwise Konoko can't climb, vault, swim,
        shimmy along ledges, etc... and as in TR all the fun-looking
        fancy action is kept to the pre-scripted cutscenes.