What an absolute fumble this game is. It has so many good things, like the sleuth work mechanic, the strange visions, the city itself looks interesting, a bit of crafting mechanic. This could have been a magnificent Lovecraftian detective game, but all it managed to be is a run around simulator. Here is the nice long list: - The controls are horrible. - The enemies are laughable. - No sneaking. - No direct button to crafting menu. - Detective work altough interesting, it is shallow and there is no thinking involved from the players side. - NPCs, pop in and out of view on the street. - Crafting is dumb. Put spring and alcohol together to get medkits? - Game time is used mostly to run around in the city, back and forth between points of interests. - Lore breaking. Innsmouth residents, all of them were a member of EOD. It's in their nature as they are the children of Dagon. They are not individuals in any sence, especially after transformation. - There is no good loot to look for, just a handful of skins. Fast travel is horrible as well. You can't just travel to a phone booth (travel point).. NO! You have to go to a both first to be able to travel to another booth. - Side missions are empty shells of fetch quests with a bit of story spun around it. All in all, this game just falls between a multitude of chairs. Shooting, crafting, detective puzzles, open world. It missed all of these. I would've wanted to go through the story, but I just gave up, when the whole game revealed itself as a walking simulator, where you have to go back and thorth points of interests. Like going to a place, finding a clue, then going to the librabry to search for info, then going to another place, finding clue, then going to the police station to find info, then back to another place... Just steer clear of this one. What an absolute joke!
World is beautiful and it has huge potential, but it feels like it was squandered away. Here is my list: -It's not open world when you lock sections of it based on story. -Artefact glitches -Huge amount of useless guns, worse then Borderlands -Locked key bindings -Performance issues -Pedestrians pop in and out all the time -Cops start shooting at you for literally nothing, bot don't say a thing when I am walking down the street with a bazooka in hand -No reason to go to your apartment and use the stash as it is pretty much useless -So many things but nothing worth to interact with -Was hoping to go in a bar and do braindance and whatnot (even GTA 5 had lap dances and sex in cars) -Gun vendors sell the same stuff -Hacking is useless and a joke, in the tabletop you could surf the net -Stealth is a joke -Gun levelling... are you serious? What is there to level up on a bloody gun? Oiling the mechanism? -Not to mention clothing levelling. Changing the shoelaces? Sewing on new buttons? -Crafting is a joke, not even close to what Fallout 4 has -No hidden gems of places with collectibles and such -UI is crap, it's sensory overload and hard to navigate As a person who loves Fallout 3, NV and 4, I feel like this game is a major step back in open world RPGs. I am deeply disappointed so far. No matter how good the story is, or how interesting the characters are the world doesn't invite you in. You don't feel the need having to go in to a small alleyway, or dark corner as there is nothing there. Nothing to see, nothing to experience. It was developed for 7 years? If this would have been out in 2015, I would have said, that it is decent. But after all the previous advancements in open world rpgs, this is a massive let-down. Haven't finished Act1 yet. If the game won't open up more and give me more options in terms of crafting, hacking, stashing, buying new apartments, etc... then this review won't change. Might just play one of the old Fallout games or GTA 5 at this point.
