Hey! That's pretty good!
It's an FMV game that would be right at home on the Sega CD or CDI on a technical standpoint. Although it definatly is an interesting experience even if you spend your time watching it or reading text. The interactivity is simplistic but it kept me entertained for a good six hours. Definatly worth the price of admission in my opinion.
The game itself has an interesting and inviting concept but with low framerates, blurry textures and bad AA, ruining what is a good visual style, I would suggest prospective buyers to wait for a path to make the game playable. To be honest No Man's Sky's main selling point is exploration, there isn't much real traditional content so to speak. The average play session involves one hopping from planet to planet discovering new species and terrain while gathering resources to upgrade your ship, suit and multi--tool. This game isn't for those who crave objective based, linear or repetitive games. No Man's Sky really has two major selling points, the first being its sense of scale and the second being discovery. The sense of scale is just amazing, n my few hours with the game I spent most of it in a single star system and when I finally was able to travel out of my start system I was confronted with a near infinite amount of star systems to travel to. It's a truly humbling experience, even a single planet poses a grand amount of content. The second point, discovery, not only of planets which while the flora and resources do suffer from looking the same, all the animals one discovers are quite interesting, they always look completely alien and their personalities vary greatly causing them to interact with you and other wildlife in ways that's fun to observe. The best part of discovery is that they are genuine discoveries to set foot on a planet and know nobody else has been there is quite an amazing feeling. It was the main reason I preordered NMS and I'm very glad that in this regard there was no shortcomings. To conclude the concept is great and the gameplay while repetitive to some is exploration focused and bound to have lulls. Once the Hello Games hopefully makes the game actually playable I'll have no problem recommending it because the game itself is good it just runs very poorly.
