This is a great game, and fun to play. It really should be a game in the high 4's in rating, as most reviews show. However, if you have problems with the gamma range available it's totally unplayable until you go in and half bake a solution by manually modifying it. Worth a try, if you get lucky, you'll have fun, otherwise it's unplayable. Yes, this problem by itself really is worth knocking 2 points off. 3 different monitors (really 2 and 1 projector), all three required different custom settings hand adjusted and calculated for usability. Even within the game you will constantly need to fiddle around with this setting.
After the Band of Bastards DLC came out, I bought this DLC on the theory that a YEAR after the initial release, the game would be stable. Not the case. This is a great concept of the game, but prepare to suffer crashes back to Windows on almost every game play session. You will lose a lot of time starting over and re-progressing back to where you crashed. Currently (February 2019), and still waiting to get the bugs fixed and have a decent chance of enjoying the game. What a waste! This game had such potential.
There is so much that you might think you'll like, but after waiting for a major patch to come out, and then buying, I am finding it just not good. It has all the elements to be a truly great game, but the design of the gameplay is honestly terrible. You can grind and follow online exploit guides and get somewhere, but if you expect to play a normal version, you'll be sadly disappointed and get to watch the death/restart cycle many times. Very little is adjustable, and you are locked into some linear play at the beginning with little to no tutorial, other than periodically a screen will pop up to tell you only some of the keys you need to accomplish things. Yes, we get the point that you need to die over and over to learn a simple thing as you play, War Horse. Unfortunately this is why I see this game as a do not recommend. Get a game that's enjoyable, for the price, you can probably find several. Maybe in two or three years, they will do the design work needed to make it a great game and it will be a bargain price by then. So give it a pass, or grind and exploit to uber status to play, that's why I say pass and buy something fun.
