Posted on: September 30, 2021

Early Access review

btroelstrup

Games: 215 Reviews: 2

Quake's Necrogoth cousin is...

I love Quake I, I love retro fps games, I love dark fantasy, I love machine gun fang spitters and explosive cyst launchers. Then.. why don't I love Wrath? The short answer is: its in early access. Its a 'good' early access though, the game is mostly finished. There is plenty to like....Wrath manages to be like Quake and also be itself, adopting a necro-gothic world sprinkled with grotesque abominations. You play as a nameless outlander vagabonding your way through open zones with dark fantastic flair (graveyards, ruins, churches, swamps), putting hordes of aftermentioned gunfodder back in the ground as you go. Your weapons of choice chunky shotguns, explosive cyst throwers, a fang-machine gun plus others. A resource-based save system keeps you on your toes and makes you pick you respites wisely. I see people complaining about this, but I never found it to be good or bad... its just different. After finishing Quake Remasted, this feels like a natural progression in technology and art. However, as things get closer to full release, a few things stop me from putting it with the retro fps greats like Dusk, Ion Fury and Amid Evil. The only thing that set it back is its design... The choice to make large zones instead of levels comes with advantages and challenges, which have been partially met. Enemies lack announcing cries and attack wind ups, giving the player little chance before the damage comes. Almost every enemy is projectile based, sometimes multiple projectiles, and if it isn't, it will kill you almost instatly if it gets close. Levels have lots of ambushes, which always feels cheap, especially when can't quicksave. There are few other things, but this is a GOG review... lol, ain't no one gonna look at this. And if you are, thank you for reading this far. Wrath is pretty cool, I like and I want it succed, it just needs to iron out the kinks. My recommendation: save yourself any frustration of playing a rough game and wait until full release.

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Posted on: March 2, 2022

Early Access review

the3ger

Verified owner

Games: 121 Reviews: 2

No drive

First of all, to the developers - you did your job very well. PROS: - High quality Blood-esc level design, but with lack of details. - Interesting monsters design. - Good weapons feedback, but not for all weapons. - Artefacts system. - Monsters appearance in the key points is wonderful. CONS: - Horrible sound design: monster sounds, ambient sounds, music. - Monsters behavior: stupid as hell. - Most of weapons are not interesting to use in both mods. - NO DRIVE - game feels dead and silent, yes it is challenging on hard and above, but it is just soulless. And it is very sad.

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Posted on: March 12, 2024

calipheron

Verified owner

Games: 355 Reviews: 7

A New Take On Quake

Wrath in its completed form is a much more satisfying experience compared to the early access we received years (!) ago. It has a strong identity of its own, iterating on Quake's basic gameplay, but with larger variety in level design and enemy design. It doesn't stray too far from its forbear, but has a solid selection of satisfying weapons, dense level design, a diverse roster of very well animated enemies, and excellent sound design. I wouldn't call its art style Lovecraftian, though, it goes in a unique more alien-fantasy direction that is not predictable. If you're an old school FPS fan at all, you really need to try it. However, if you're less invested in the genre, and the thought of a "variation on Quake" isn't as interesting to you then maybe take a star off. But for those like me that absolutely relish the thought of a new FPS in this style (Dusk was a while ago now!), the complete package is vastly improved on Early Access in many ways and you should try it now.

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Posted on: September 28, 2024

chigger

Verified owner

Games: 360 Reviews: 36

After years of EA hell, its just alright

This showed up at the start of the Neo boomer shooter trend, along with Ion Fury. And while that game came out and was a banger build engine game, this Quake 1 like one went into early access... and stayed there for years. If this had just come out when Neo boomer shooters were fresh it might have been recieved better. I would even say its good, but it has issues and wasn't worth the years of wait, especially since other Q1 likes have been better. The gunplay is solid, and the level architecture is pretty varied and detailed for a quake 1 like game. The secondary functions and artifacts do give you a fair few options in combat. The levels are also a lot larger than your average boomer shooter, which is also a double edges sword since it makes backtracking for supplies or secrets really tedious. As for the negatives, well some levels are really stingy on resources, occasionally feeling like a survival horror. The boss fights just plain suck. Then there's the music... I get some people like more atmospheric music in boomer shooters like Q1, this soundtrack is just plain boring and puts me to sleep. Most of the story is told through cryptic word salid scrolls that you have to hunt down, and the "twist" at the end you can see coming a mile away. The gate power ups are rather annoying, as you are forced to use them to progress and run out at the worst time due to how strict they are. And then there's the complete lack of a map which makes the previously mentioned backtracking even worse. And there is cut content that was promised in EA, such as multiplayer. While I couldn't care less about it (lets face it, most people don't buy boomer shooters for MP) I can understand why people would be pissed off after promised content was cut AFTER they got their early access money. Really, the game has more good than bad, but for a just fairly good game, the time for it to come out has long passed and other boomer shooters have done it better.

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Posted on: December 11, 2019

Early Access review

Noir_XIV

Verified owner

Games: 15 Reviews: 1

Quake + Hexen = Awesome!

This was Nostalgic and Refreshing to play. I understand that the title is still in development, but I can already see and feel the love that was put into Wrath. The game really layers on classic 90's shooters thick, that leaves you wanting more. It's definitely worth the purchase to see where this game goes next.

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