I ended up hitting a game stopping bug. At the end of the first chapter there was this gateway to the next that was meant to have been unlocked, it didn't. That meant no further progress possible. Looking at other reviews these kind of game killing bugs happen all the way through it. So it isn't really worth bothering with. But up until it did breakdown it seemed an average game of it's genre, not as bad as some of the 1-star reviews would suggest...... but until it's fixed (which it won't be - come on, Bioware are still going to be updating this? Don't think so!) it isn't worth even starting, let alone buying.
9/10 (ie 4.5 stars, rounded up - cos it is a great game.....) I caught this when it was given out free by GOG, and it's one of the best, if not *the* best, of the free offers I've yet seen. Usually GOG free offers range from "meh" to "utter shite". But this is a brilliant little game. The only downside being the controls, especially with tanks and mech type vehicles. Agrav vehicles are easier to control, but they are usually weaker than the other two types. But you can get accustomed to it! The old school isometric scenery is nice and sharp, and everything is destructable! Sure it has repetitive elements, but every game in existence does!!!!!! It's very rare indeed I award a full 5-stars, so let me tell you, that means it's good! Maybe I'll even get some positive reps for once!
What da fukz going on? Sorry but this game is inaccesable, unituitive gibberish!
Not that hasn't been said already in the many reviews. Tower defence with the added offence actions your little (but rather OP) scout craft. That's just a "scout"? What are their battleships like then? Just set up towers of the appropriate type and in the best positions, they'll slaughter half of the enemy formations themselves, you just need to help out personally with the other half. If they do reach their objective, your "base" in the centre of map, they will begin to grind it down. If they destroy it, it's mission failed. That's probably not going to happen many times....... ..... on "easy" that is. On other difficulty levels, well it gets less one sided toward the aliens. In agreement with some negative reviews saying it is very repetitive, yes, it certainly is, but most games involve a lot of that anyway. Scenery is very good eye candy, and it's often as much fun to just trash that as much as it is to play the actual game.
I was lucky to avoid the "overpriced" pitfall - I caught this when on a free offer. But £24 for the standard version and £39 for the "Necromancer Edition" is simply EX-TORN-ION-ATE. I would suggest the developers halve (*at least*) those standard full prices. And suggest *you* only ever buy when on sale (don't you always, you do, don't you?) The game is bascially just turn based "card play" combat rounds with a basic strategic map to progress along, and a simplistic menagerie of undead minions to manage. But what little it does have is BRILLIANT. Iratus himself is an absolute hoot, reminds me of "Cabal Gordon" from "Blood". The pixel art graphics are excellent, as are the sounds and music. Especially Iratus's quips and oneliners!
No really! It made me poo them! :D Yes it is creepy and atmospheric, but the repeated terms "walking simulator" and "linear" don't bode that well, even though I've only just started playing it. So, looks like it's going to be another "merely average" game then. :/
Got this when it was on a free offer, good job really. It is worth little monetary value to myself personally. It looks old, feels old, terrible UI. Has a slight smell of the original "SSI Steel Panthers" games, but without any of their supreme customizablilty (which has kept the series alive even to date). Difficulty levels are off the scale as well. I couldn't even do the tutorial. Which wasn't a tutorial really, it gave no in game instruction. Probably meant to follow some text in the manual. Not for me I'm afraid.
Come on, these things are ripoffs aren't they? Sure 27 tracks is more than you normally get from commercial artists, but shouldn't this be included with the game itself as an extra? Or for just an extra £1 or £2? Not £6. The game itself isn't up to much either though.
I might have been "doing something wrong" though, but I doubt it. It locked up on the very first dialog that went "Wake up Zoe". Even if it did work, it would be just a Commodore 64 era bog standard platformer with Spectrum 48k sounds. Not even worth it for free. £7 is robbery. Wait, what's this in the intro screen? "It took us TWO YEARS to make this and we poured our hearts and souls into it"? Two years to make, I ran it for 15 seconds, actually played it for, well zero seconds! Quite. Don't forget to press the "no" or "report" buttons.
Why? Because this review contains an unpopular opinion, in fact these days it a completely forbidden heretical opinion. That opinion is "I think all the anti-vitalist, mechanist brain and behaviour content that infests this game from the git-go is aborrhent". The devs are definately fully paid up members of "The Sam Harris Brigade". Google him. Or they are just thralls to his kind of "latest ground breaking syunce". That very sour subjective taste "Figment" gave me aside, it is just another platformer with light combat elements and annoying puzzles. And whaddya know, the "overall most helpful review" is once again awarded to a five star review!!!!! In fact the ONLY five star review this game has. Ok, the guy probably did love the game, but it's more evidence that GOG really need to remove the review voting system. It is just abused by devs and shills to add false convincing weight to positive but deceitful reviews, and to undermine trust in negative but truthful reviews. Sorry about not really saying a lot about the game itself, but there isn't much to say about it! And what's all this I keep seeing about "Unity Analytics", so "Unity" engine games all now feature some kind of malware as standard do they?
