Posted on: September 8, 2025
zigaauer
Verified ownerGames: 40 Reviews: 3
Really cool concept, mediocre exectuion
It's a decent game, elevated mostly by the world design, atmosphere, music and character design. The actual gameplay is, as is mostly already detailed in other reviews, a hodge-podge of action adventure, racing and RTS, with none of these being particularly good or exciting. The story is honestly too short and underdeveloped to really be interesting, with all of the characters having very shallow development or just even... character. Most of the dialogue is just punch lines and throw-away jokes, with the serious parts usually sticking out like a sore thumb - particularlly the Eddie/Ophellia romance is just a bit cringy at points. The world is very interesting but at the same time also very underutilized, there are many points of interest that you just see through the binoculars or drive through, that have no context, no backstory, no content. It is mostly populated by secondary misions that are of 4 types - an ambush, a turret shooter, a race or a mortar game. There's I think 4 secondary missions that break this mould, with all of them being pretty simple. The game is generally pretty easy, there is not a lot of depth, and there are no real decisions you make as the player. But the world building through the legends, the design, and what is given through dialogue, is really cool, and is often really well elevated by the music you unlock in these sections. The final HUGE issue with this game - there is a really good soundtrack but most gameplay sections are too short for even a third of each song to play, when you are driving the distances are also too short, and on top of that the songs will reset or change when you open up a menu, enter dialogue, or when you play a solo. Basically you're just hearing the first 30-40 seconds of each song over and over and over. Overall a pretty meh experience if you can't get into the metal shtick. Also pretty short, I think you can get through the campaign in probably 4-5 hours tops, and probably 100% it in 10-12 hours.
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