An amazing open world game with great features that make it very interesting to play: + Alive enviorement. It's not one tedious open world game where you walk and walk and nothing happens. There are random events and plenty of challenges plus the scavenging part actually makes the survival aspect of the game. + Inmersive atmosphere. The game takes you step by step through all the concepts in the game pretty fluidly. You learn about different kinds of enemies, day and night dangers, traps and acrobatics, etc. + Characters with personality. You can find all kinds of characters with their own nuances and troubles with quite decent writing. You actually feel surrounded by people rather than just NPCs. All in all good purchase unless the following bad side of the game would deter you: - For such an acrobatic based game it's very frustrating to get stuck on clutter, lack of manuver when it comes to climbing or dropping from ledges and clunky interactions with the controls and the zombies. Sometimes the toughest decission in the game is not deciding wether or not to help survivors but wether or not the game will let you hold onto a certain ledge of if you'll faceplant it and die from the fall. - Challenges are very picky and frustrating. Say you have to cut 30 arms in a minute and a half. Well, if you kill a zombie before cutting his arms that doesn't count, if you chop his head that doesn't count... But if you chop two arms it counts as one since they're from one zombie but also sometimes neither arm will count at all. - No choices for an adventure/rpg game. Every mission is very straight foward. There's no decission making and sometimes you have to do stuff that doesn't make sense, even if you figure beforehand what's going to happen. - Very linear character developement. You have a tree of skills and you choose the ones that are useful which are surrounded by junk skills, that makes leveling up just taking the good ones eventually and weeding out the subpar ones.
I just can't enjoy the game. I tried many times but I just can't get myself to keep playing it. The controls are painfully bad, you can't adjust camera zoom and your vision range is very limited. Moving around feels very clunky and you need to aim very well to land your shots. The art is amazing if you like steampunk and the music and ambience is on point as well. That's what attracted me to the game and I've got to say that in that regard I was possitively surprised. The game is very linear both in gameplay and story wise (which is sad since it's marketed as "story-driven action"). There's not much to your character's evolution, just some abilities you can choose and distribute some points to but that's it. The good part is that at least the devs seem to care and solve questions and explain how are they trying to improve. That encouraged me to attempt to give the game another try but I didn't go much further before I got bored and frustrated. Still, will definitely keep an eye on future games because I think they have the right attitude and good potential.
An amazing game if you want to trully make your own story in a medieval set up. You can customize your characters and create many kinds of of backgrounds depending on how you plan to play. This game doesn't have a solid story but instead everything is simulated so every gameplay is different. You can decide what your plans for glory are and roleplay accordingly. Build your army, trade goods, join tournaments and even become a king and attempt to conquer the world. Combat is really fun and engaging, even if clunky at times, and you can command your army and use the terrain at your advantage. The AI is very challenging and you have a wide variety of combat styles depending on your weapons. This is not a story driven game so you need to be warned that you'll have to use your imagination when it comes to looking for quests and things to do. The game provides you with enough mechanics and events to do so, but you won't have any guidelines as of how to build your army or who you should side with.
This game is extremely average in many regards, lacking in certain aspects but entertaining after all. The game offers many features each with their own strong and weak points. - Customization: There's plenty of options when creating your main character and companion. You can choose from many defaults and go deeper into the modifications if you wish. In terms of equipment you can choose from a decent variety of well designed and immersive armours and the clothes to wear underneath. - Leveling system: Very poorly explained in game but somewhat simple. The stats are leveled automatically depending on your class. Each one boosts your attributes differently when leveling up. You can purchase class changes and swap at the vendor to manipulate your stat growth. - Mechanics: The fighting and skill system is OK. Choosing one class or another feels very different as warriors are incredibly slow but powerful while rangers are more reliant on positioning. Still, the AI is terrible as some enemies will sometimes ignore you and other times they'll pile on you granting a kill no matter what you do. Enemies can keep comboing you in succession rendering you unable to move. You can heal all you want but you'll die regardless since their combo will never stop (and we're talking about mere bandits, not bosses). You can make very cinematic moves sometimes timing well your abilties and combat can be a lot of fun. Missions are really dull and uneventful though. The game is filled with menial tasks like "talk to people around town" or "escort diiferent NPCs from A to B over and over". - Story: Dull and cliché to the extreme. You are the chosen one to kill the great evil. Characters are very uncharismatic. Companions are literal zombies with no will or personality (and this is another thing not explained in the game but you can make them totally useless in combat via dialog). -Graphics and sound: Very monotone ambience and forgetable music. Monster design is simple and unoriginal.
