ELEX

I can play any new title without a problem, but this game cannot properly move unless I play it on low quality settings. Even then the lags are present. I am far from impressed by its graphic quality, the animations are ugly, the voice is meh and the gameplay, nothing original. For the fans of Gothic this may be something to celebrate. For me not so much. Starting with the graphics that look quite ugly, this game tries to do something but fails. The locations are small, no open world or anything of the kind. Even on larger maps, the feeling of "I must go behind that tree, there will be something there" and yes, it will be something there, because the map is too damn small, so they placed things everywhere. The graphics are ugly. The characters have a better quality than the environment, but that is all. It has huge problems with lags and fps drops. The cut scenes are atrocious. The effects are worst that Unity's free ones. The animation is mediocre at best. The story? Unoriginal as hell. One planet, one comet, one "exotic mineral"... is this Tiberium? It sure looks like! They tried, they failed. The rest is mediocre, a mashup of Mass Effect and Fallout. Is this a good RPG? Maybe, if you consider KOTOR and Gothic 2 to be your game of reference. I am past that era. If you demand something better, sorry, but you will get nothing new. The interface is lacking, everything is done as fast as possible and it is visible. One big screen with tabs, just like a crappy 2d indie Zelda clone. The sound, it exist. And that is that. Does this game deserves 2/5? I have to admit that I was very curious, and had high hopes. The hype was real, and it seemed legit. But the disappointment was also real. Maybe, after they will patch the hell out of it, my rating will go higher, but for now, this is it. The devs must stop rushing half finished games and pretend that we are blind by hype. Yes, most of the time it works, but not always. This time it was too much for me.

I wish i could write this Review on Steam to adress some "special" Users. If you think BF3 is the best Flightsim there is, GO AWAY and DONT LOOK BACK! If you liked Gothic 2, you feel at home. No artificial "every Monster is the same Level as you" Crap like in Skyrim etc. UI and Graphics are pretty outdated, if there wasnt Shadows and Lightning, it could be a Game from 2007. Thats what im really shocked about. But the first Impression is a fluid Open World. I played Gothic 2 at least 4 times, never finished Gothic 3. Wonder where Elex will rank. Spend my Lunchmoney for the next 2 Weeks to support Piranha Bytes. Hope it pays back.

Piranha Bytes have always been known for how dense their worlds are, much less for their size. They are known for the replayability and possibility for choice, much less for the actual quality of the main plot. Yet ELEX delivers both rich lore, amazing story and huge world, without losing whatever Gothic and Risen were always good at. The game is not perfect, yet its flaws can easily be neglected. Certainly, animations could be more polished, and there are some minor bugs (most of which are already patched), also melee combat doesn't feel very comfortable. However, the design of the world that uses 3d dimension in the best possible way, and is made so that your jetpack adds to the exploration instead of taking from it, is just amazing. The factions design is incredible, not only in terms of variety, but in delivering the feeling the feeling that your choice is never the greater good, but mostly the lesser evil. The alignment system that actually matters a lot is a rare thing as well. All in all, the game does deliver what previous games of the studio managed to deliver while also succeeding where those games failed. And it does make you feel awesome.

Frustrating, and unpolished. Its just one annoying mess - make one wrong move...dead. Most of the time its even due to a bug. There isn't any fun to be had here.

The good: The world seemed like it contained enough depth to maintain interest. The bad: Pretty much everything else. The graphics seem old, generic and uninspiring. Serviceable at best. I haven't gone deep enough into the game to truly learn the combat system, but what I did get to find out consisted mostly of blocking and button smashing the 2 attack buttons. The animation looks ridiculous. From the way the protagonist runs with his arms spread wide, to the tiny brick jump he makes when you press Space. The UI is fine. It looks awful and consits of a single generic blue colour, but it's relatively understandable when navigating, and it lays out what information you need. The dialog is inconsistent and extremely limiting in what it lets you say. Not going to expand on that. A single gameplay video should suffice. The voice acting is probably the worst I've seen in a video game yet. It seems like Gothic's actors have gotten even worse with the years. Conclusion: Within 28 minutes into the game I've realized I absolutely cannot keep playing. The writing, dialoge and voice acting are SO bad it's almost laughable. The level of cringe is so high, the protagonist is so boring, and the combat system is so shallow that I was honestly shocked this game had more than 2 stars rating. An insult to anyone who ever loved RPG's.