‘’…and this is the reason we send you in solo missions against 200 bandits or 300 mutants in dark dungeons/factories/swamps without a proper flashlight. Oh yeah, we have 20 soldiers on this damn train but you are the top player, aren’t you? and don’t expect we give you equipment, you must find it on the battlefield, of course. Sometimes we can send someone with you, but this someone will misteriously disappear when you’ll find some boss. We love you, mate.’’ Jokes aside, this is the structure of the 90% of this game. Almost nothing makes sense. The positive? The graphics are still gorgeous and the plot is captivating. You really want to see the ending. Some gunfights are excellent, especially the ones in open field. Dialogues are OK. The negative? the maps are terrible, linear and full of invisible walls and other annoyances. In every map you have to fulfill one specific goal to advance, and that’s all. Plus, you don’t have exp points here, so why kill that bunch of bandits? You can’t improve your statistics, so why bother exploring that building? The crafting is almost useless. On the field you’ll always find a better gear. Some missions are frustrating, too, because you don’t have enough informations. Play this game only for the story, which is very strong and for the graphics, the gameplay is nothing special. The DLC’s are slightly better, but don’t expect too much.
Team Folon has done a great job in recreating London. The city is beautiful, the map is huge, the soundtrack is fresh and original. I love the references to pop british culture, A clockwork Orange, Hooligans, Pink Floyd music, Peaky Blinders etc. The atmosphere is great. The voice acting is really amazing, too. You have less resources and weapons than FO4 and this is positive. On the other hand we have a lot of troubles and i am astonished because almost no one has reported them. Technically the game is a mess, but i can bear it: i had 6/7 crashes in 30 hours of gaming: the tragic problem are the loading times. In Fallout 4 they were bad, here they are horrendous. Up to 5 minutes, sometimes. There are glitches and other annoyances, too. There is a lot to discuss even about the content: first of all the enemies are too many. Many times you enter a barrack smaller than my apartment and you find 20 raiders in 50 square metres, is it realistic?This isn’t a f****n Diablo 5, it’s a Fallout! And killing them doesn’t give you enough experience. Some critters, such as the foxes don’t give you nothing at all. A bug? A total waste of time, anyway. Less enemies for more XP, do it, Team Folon. I am an old gamer so i don’t love GPS: but if you use it, that damn thing must work. Here it doesn’t work, in almost every quest you arrive at a point when the signal disappears and if you try to read the diary you will find nothing on it. Again, is it a bug or is it a feature? An example? the quest at the Bank, which is terrible. The map is giant but also weird: you travel through a world of invisible walls, closed doors, dead ends, ruins you can’t climb, lava pools (!?) and you realize immediately that the path is quite linear.You don’t have the freedom of FO4, absolutely: it reminds me of the centre of Washington Dc (FO3), but without the metro system. Ah and the ''super radioactive water'' is a terrible idea, believe me. Probably a smaller and more focused world would have been a better choice. At the current state the game is a 3/5 for me. If something would change in the future i will modify the review.
I admit that i didn’t have great expectations on this one, but at the end i found a great game. First of all, the world is really fantastic: it’s one of the best openworld i ve ever seen in 30 years of gaming. It’s huge, colourful, full of missions, secrets, different resources and biomes. You travel through forests, jungles, deserts, abandoned cities, contaminated areas, villages and it’s never boring. The quests are almost infinite, yet a little bit redundant, especially the conquest of the outposts. The plot is nothing special, you are the generic hero who must save the world but if you want you can play for 30+ hours without touching the main quest, so it’s not a great problem. The battles are interesting, you have a lot of different weapons, armors, upgrades and combat styles. You can craft a whole world of different objects and the survival aspect is important if you play at the higher difficulty. From a technical point of view the game is beautiful and smooth: i had one single crash in 55 hours of gaming at 60 fps FullHD with an old GTX1650, so people who complain about 1000 crashes or stuttering problems either have a potato pc or are trolls. Probably the latter. The only reason i don’t give 5 stars is the fact that some boss fights are frustrating QTE sections, the rest of the game in my humble opinion is nearly perfect.
All in all this is not a bad game, so i won't give a bad review. It has stunning graphics, a good plot, some interesting horror elements and also the crafting/base building elements are well implemented. The game is solid from a technical point of view and i didn't encounter bugs or stuttering. Sadly, it's the umpteenth game here on Gog which has misleading reviews and honestly i am tired about that. Let's see: They say it's open world...false. It has some tiny maps connected by a clunky teleporting system and a small base. The maps are as big as the maps in the first Witcher (2007), so ridiculously small today. They say it has interesting exploration...false. In every maps you'll find always the same enemies, the same buildings and the same resources. The same emptiness. So boring. They say it has important stealth elements...false. Stealth is completely broken here. You can use stealth against human enemies who are very stupid, but the monsters spawn from nothing and you can't avoid them, no matter your level of stealthiness. They say it's not linear...false. You progress through the story only with the help of your wife's ghost. You can do a thousand fetch quests if you want, but it's a terrible way to play a game. Buy this game only if you want a good survival horror in an interesting setting. It's a sort of Resident Evil, plus base building elements and somehow Alan Wake feelings (the mistery of the missing wife). If you are looking for a Far Cry/Horizon/Tes/Fallout/Stalker/Risen spare your time and look elsewhere.
This one is probably one of the best FPS ever. Great plot, great gunplay, and the graphics that even today are still good. Unfortunately it doesn't work properly on Win10, and this is a shame. I worked with the compatibility options losing a considerable amount of time and at the end i managed to get the game started, but it works only on DX9mode, which means no fullHD, no DinamicLights, no very high textures etc. A pity, because many years ago i didn't have a PC suitable for this game, now i have the PC but the game is a mess. But this isn't a 15-years-old-boxed version, it's the Gog version: it's really a pity that Gog, which should be the home of the old games, sells something like that. Obviously the technical support is not able to give me a solution. I don't want to give a bad rate 'coz the game is still great, but i am very disappointed.
This game is very difficult to rate Some aspects are undoubtedly above excellence: the graphics are still great, the plot is interesting, the reconstruction of the Middle Age is majestic, and the NPC are generally very charismatic and well written (my favourite are Hans Capon and Father Godwin). The world is huge and you have a lot of missions and activities. Usually you can solve the quests in different ways, so playing this you feel a great sense of freedom, it reminds me of Morrowind and Gothic 2 somehow. Dialogues and voice acting are ok. On the other hand this game has many problems. First of all, the saving system is probably the worst i have ever seen in a RPG, very frustrating. The combat system is realistic and it works fine for me: problem is that it was clearly thought for 1v1 combat and every time you face more than one enemy (it means the 90 per cent of the times) you are basically screwed because the movement is clunky and unresponsive. Beside this fact for some mysterious reason if you are losing a battle you cannot turn back and flee, because you are locked to your enemy and again, you are screwed. Using a bow could be a solution...theoretically. Because you don't have a f***ing crosshair, so you miss the 9/10 of the shots, it's embarrassing. Other mechanics are just...weird: riding a horse is a chore, alchemy is a disaster, and there are other strange annoyances. For instance, you are the apprentice of a blacksmith but you can't forge anything (a modern game without crafting, are you kiddin' me?), you lived by a river since childhood but you can't swim, etc. In particular I hate the fact that, if you are overencumbered you can't fast travel even if you are riding a horse, does it make sense? No man, it doesn't, and it makes all the hunting quests nearly impossible. All in all, my advice is to play this game: if you have enough patience it can give you a lot of fun. But remember that it's not a game for everyone, so be cautious.
Reading many reviews here i think that the general answer is ''no''. First of all, this game is not a RPG: it's a survival action with some (small) RPG elements. The core is simple: you are a weak nobody in a hostile environment and you need to survive facing starvation, climate, diseases, monsters, bandits etc. You survive only using your gear, yes, because you are not the Dragonborn, the Witcher or some Kratos: you are an average man like us. You need to hunt laying traps, you need potions if you want to fight the biggest enemies and you need to flee if the enemies are far superior than you: have you ever seen real life? Yeah, something like that. You can achieve some perks to improve yourself and they are useful but not enough to win, you can't grind here. The crafting is excellent and deep and the exploration is rewarding (if you are patient and clever); graphics are old but acceptable, and some sceneries are majestic. The plot is not very original but it's not that bad, at least it's realistic and you have choices. For instance, a guy told you that a bunch of bandits wants to sack your village: this is not a Tes, if you don't care about that the village will be really sacked and you will lose your house and your belongings. Thank God you don't have the GPS: you must use the map, the compass and the sun and this feels so real. The only great problem is the autosave system which is too harsh (and some times doesn't work at all): for this reason i don't give 5 stars, the rest of the game works very well. If someone doesn't like the formula, or doesn't have the time to play it i can understand, but it's not fair to bash a game only because you expected something else.
I am an old gamer, so i generally love old stuff. I played this game (the boxed version) when it came out, back in 2010. And it was undoubtedly great for the time. I re-bought it here on Gog because the old version doesn't work on Win10...well I must admit that sadly it hasn't aged very well. Some things are still ok: the setting is very cool, the gunplay is realistic and well done, the graphics are acceptable, the main quest is intriguing (but short): all considered this game has charisma. The problem is that it hasn't the features which are crucial in a modern game: no crafting, no vehicles, no character progression system, no perks, no secrets, no factions, the map is desolately empty (and quite small), the side quests are repetitive as hell (go there, fetch this/go there, kill that...), the looting doesn't exist etc. It's a mere shooter: probably a concept which is too old for today. In addition to that, it has a huge amount of bugs, and frankly after so many years this is not acceptable. I recommend to buy it only on sale for nostalgia's sake, other options don't make any sense in my opinion.
