Posted on: February 6, 2021
Nervensaegen
Zweryfikowany użytkownikGry: Opinie: 102
Signal from Farcry (on a budget)
Best described as a roughly 5-10 hour long, minimalist, slow-burn, open-world shooter. Unfortunately there are three issues that keep me from recommending it: 1) Storytelling. 2) Too much back-tracking through empty spaces. 3) Not enough content. Pro: What the game does well is transport the idea that you are remote-controlling/hacking a drone. It really captures the look&feel and capitalizes on in constantly: Low detail graphics? You are a drone, it's your optics. Fast travel? You are a drone, you don't fast travel, you remote-connect to another bot. Spawn points? You are a drone, it's not a spawn point, it's a satellite uplink. And so on. Amazingly well done! The downside: A serious lack of content. Storytelling is limited to "there is a signal, find its source", with background info only available as a 48 pages PDF file. No in-game story, only lore in the shape of semi-related text snippets you collect and may or may not review at a terminal later. This is a shame, as you come across ruins and broken machines that hint at some greater secret that just isn't there, as these objects are mere ambience and there is nothing you can do with them. You are limited to just 3 weapon types. Rewards give you only minor upgrades on each previous version. Also, there are just 5 types of repetitive missions and they are few and far between. Unfortunately most of the world - though beautiful to look at - feels empty with few spots of interest and little to no life. This gets annoying, for your drone's walking speed is slow and there is just not enough - if anything - to do along the way. The game uses auto-saves, no manual saves allowed. Every time you die, you respawn at a previously captured position on the map, which is almost always far away. This means a lot of time has to be wasted holding the walk-button with one hand, while utilizing the other to sip a much needed coffee. If the latter is a showstopper for you, I recommend to skip this title for the moment.
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