9/10 Good Old but new Game, some "anomalies" within the engine. Mind you, THIS IS NOT LIKE STALKER GAMMA! It is exactly like a good old Stalker Game, nice gameplay, interesting questline, buggy start for some. Good things: + Nostalgic gameplay with new graphics, animations and overall long desired fixes. +Quests are amazing, both the radiant jobs as well as the main questline. +Gunplay works best, sadly shotguns are not OP anymore. :( +graphics, music, ambience, campfires, all the things I ever wanted in Stalker. <3 +Brutal EVERYTHING. Was Hard back then, is slightly harder now, maybe even slightly unbalanced when it comes to mutants. Bad things: - Some players have problems with some bugs, or "anomalies", within the game, I don't have any major problems except the UE bonus quest not starting. :( - Half the hours spent within the game were wasted on shaders. - A-Life 2.0 feels more like A-Life 1.5 I tried to tweak in old games and managed to break it. Works like 4/10 times as intended, other times it spawns dogs or flesh in my area and wastes my entire ammo. :0 -WHERE IS MY MUTANT SKINNING?? I waste ammo on tanky pigs and can't even earn some koupons selling some radioactive meat? I know they drifted away from this feature back in the day, but many ppl requested mutant skinning, it makes sense to implement it seeing as contracts don't pay much, selling gear is not profitable, and quests pay less than livable wage in the Zone. Overall, amazing game, perfect return to glory for the saga, but some things require tweaking, some patches are already under way, some, like A-Life, require a lot of hard work. Highly recommend this game for all that desire a long hard look in the mirror while crying cuz you died 7 times to a dog in the first 3hrs of gameplay in Lesser Zone.
First of all, it is free, so no matter the reviews, you can simply download it and just play it. But yeh...This game rocks! TLDR; 5/5 Cool game, just play it Graphics and Sound: Simple but very polished, much more than other games that you can buy and offer pretty much the same gameplay. Story: Pretty basic, pretty much as every other space game, 2 sides at war! A shady mastermind behind the scenes, etc. You get the gist. ;) Gameplay: Space sim, Isometric, Easy to learn, and this game is free...why?? With this kind of polish Endless Sky could charge us 15$ and I would gladly pay for it. And I hate spending more than 10$ for a game like that. That, in my mind at least, speaks volumes. If offers more than it should with that ZERO DOLLARS pricetag. Them Bad Things: Even though this game is an absolute banger it has some cons, minor ones, but still worth mentioning. If you HATE radiant quests...well tough luck this game is one big radiant missions throughout known space ;) Random chat messages from NPCs are limited, after 4hrs you pretty much saw all the possible messages in chat. There is an easy fix for that, haven't checked the mods yet but I reckon the solution already lies there. Game Save system is simple, for the first hour I didn't really know if my game progress got saved, but after that I learned that every time you land it autosaves so no worries. :) Most if not all of the story bits are carried through us visitng a spaceport, If you focus too much on that sweet sweet trading routes you can pretty much forget there was a war brewing in the Galaxy Aliens have cool tech, but it pretty much ends there. Wish there were some radiant missions with them but you get what you get, Them peace loving giants. <3 All in all, This game surprised me, Tbh I was kinda bored with Starfield and was looking for a space trucking sim, and just found this gem. So if you're like me, don't wait, just play. ;)
