If I were to be WAY(!!!) picky:
The black mask that Lara wares has plane textures, it's all one texture. The transfer from the black to around her eyes is very sharp, and noticable around the nose. From the side it looks nice, but is notacable from the front.
The backpack's bright colors (compared to the outfit) seems unstealthy and bulky. And is somewhat distracting.
The textures on the hands could have been rotated better, they when from black to a soft grey then back black. Witch would have been fine if they had just been mirrored, but the way it is now is very a sharp trasition.
The hair looked odd because it came out of the mask. If you think about it, she had to of made a hole in her mask just for her hair. I found it desturbing.
When holding a flare and looking at her from the front her hips are very dark and looks like there is no shine, but when the flare is gone the shine is back.
Also, her hips go through her legs and is notacible when using the look botton.
^But these things are hardly noticable! I had to look for them. :)
Ok, now to be Realistic! :D :
Original:
An Assasin's Catsuit is very original, it is a catsuit but this is diffrent then an avrage catsuit. It has the shiny pants (Very cool) and a black shirt with a dark grey chest plate (Thingy?) over it. Most catsuits are just one plane black texture, but this is diffrent. It's details have details! :p
Quality:
The quality is very high. The main pants texture was mainy one of the shine textures (Both had a shine effect and also looked shiny without any effects). The textures were well rotated, eccept for that hardly noticable (And not even notacable in-game I might add) texture on her hand. The meshes were great, and well made. The hips go through the uper part of the leg, but you can only tell when useing the look boton and are looking at her hips. Witch is probibly not going to be the case because when using the look boton in-game you're obivously looking at something in the level you are playing. But even with that, the mesh was well made and had no hole. I saw no holes anywhere on her or her weapons.
Useable:
For a stealth level, more exactly, an Assasin's level. Witch is not you're avrage TR level. So this would probibly be used sooner in a stealth level then a assasin level. But, compared to other stealth outfits, this would probibly be used about as much as any other. It might be used more then the other because of the quality, but not being able to see Lara's face might make another catsuit, for example maybe one of Deskj's catsuits, would be used more then this one. But that was less a stealth outfit, this is. I think the usability is mutual in this case.
Custom textures:
The shoe textures looked TR3, but I liked the fact that it did'nt have any laces. It looks very slealthy and somewhat sic-fi. The hair was the same pretty much, but I think that her hairband could have been a darker color. Same with the backpack, even though it's classic Lara stlye, I don't think that it looked right in this outfit. But that is an opinion, and dose not effect the rating because it has wonderfuly good textures and they were placed great. ;)
The shine texture (Not the effect but the texture) was nice, but it was the only texture used. The shine effect saves it in-game though. So not a big problem. The shirt texture looked really nice, and I like the fact that that they were'nt just a simple texture. There were many textures and they looked good. The chest plate thing was a nice touch also. The hand textures were alread mentioned above.
Custom meshes: Very good meshes! I did'nt like the way the hips worked in-game, but if they had not been there then the shine effect would not work. Witch would look bad without it. So that's ok. I think the mask could have looked smother with eather textures or done by the mesh. Not a huge thing and it is'nt a problem. The fact that her lips look like they are under the mask is great though, and it kind of saves the mask. The chest is "Normal" in size this time. Lara is usualy a bit unaturaly large.
I also liked the way the fingers really hold the flare! It's no longer just floating in the air above Lara's hand. That was really imprssive, and it really shows just how much detail was put into this outfit.
Weapons: I loved the stealthy gun, it rocked! I, however, did not care for the old TR2 harpoongun, witch puzzeled me. If a harpongun were to be used an updated one, atleast with new textures, would have looked much better. But you did not make it so it doesnt count aganst you. And I would have liked to see the better uzis with this outfit but they remained the same old TR4 ones. Still not a problem as the new ones arnt hard to add to the outfit.
Anyway, the slealth gun was ace!
Awesome outfit! I can't wait to see more outfits by Mr Nice Guy!! :D
(22 Sep 2004 19:12)
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OH MY GOOOOOOD!!! That's the longest review on the SE, that is! :D It must mean you really liked my catsuit! I appreciate it, thank you! But, all the weapons WERE made by me. The reason why I didn't make a sniper rifle instead of the Harpoon Gun is because I had to get the outfit out so I could start working on the TRSearch HQ Project. Therefore I just added the harpoon gun from my TR3 Nevada Outfit Remake, and didn't think about it anymore.