If you enjoyed old adventures with lots of pixel hunting, sometimes a stuck story where you have to go to ancient save what is already overwritten, because the game doesn't generate crucial things such as oil for purchase, then this is a perfect fit for you. What you will get, broken story, some raunchy moments and no Lary humor. Got is at discount.
Parkour, wow, aside the some things are really broken, late in the game is this even obvious, jumping around is not much of fun after a while. Zombies, wow awesome, well there are some issues there, like kicking, when seems like most of the female zombies having diet contain lead or depleted uranium, then fun with the zombies aiming for sound, when sound is that way and you are in the other, resulting to pursue you, the ones with the radar could be outsneaked the others have auto homing. Aside from that, zombies spawn under your ass as a bonus. Didn't see many things in my life to take head-on shotgun blast unfazed, so perhaps the late game zombies are aside from the healthy diet made from kevlar combined with carbon fibres. I guess thats the increased difficulty they were talking about. Story, well cliche as much as possible with some funny moments like in Farcry when popping pills. Or perhaps a stolen TSW cutscene. There is much much more taken from other games, put that mildly. Remarkable is lockpicking itself, the sense of accomplishment when, after several broken paperclips, repelling attacks from several hordes, you finally open a very hard lock to find out just generic coffee bag reward is truly a heartwarming experience. The final boss fight just made my day, it was hilarious. Mashing buttons was a really bright idea. At the end of the day only two stars because some DLC is fun to play.
The game itself offers story, sailing, exploration, boat crafting with some combat and female protagonist. That's 10/10, right? Well sailing sucks, the wind physics not working, immortal shark always kick you out of the boat. Exploration is all about searching big empty spaces for generic islands. Crafting well, I am afraid that you end up like the rest with something like trimaran to accommodate all three bonuses and crafting options. No upgrades though, so you have to disassemble parts and craft from scratch. Combat is a real piece of work, frustrating to put it mildly, unless you use an OP sling weapon with firebomb, which is not usable for stage end boss fights, where is no place to hide. Every big mob has its own song, what's funny, perhaps it was meant for a different audience. The other remarks, diving, not worth, some bonuses acquired on each stage can ease your pain a little. Food consumption of the protagonist that is a pain of his own.
So yes, finished this and yes it might be worth to buy but only with discount... So as usual the good, bad and ugly. As a short description, then you are diplomatic conqueror what will spend most of the time running around with a native girl with hygiene on level, that she have some tree branches grooving on her head. Good thing is this game looks great, there are some breathtaking moments and sceneries, the skills/talent system is not a rocket science and there are mostly some multiple ways how to get the job done. The places like your residences and palaces are all same for all faction, I found this as a great benefit, coz it makes things more simple. Item, mats and mobs are respawning now. Bad the game engine is laggy as hell, things like some attacks are not executed properly or you are not able to block attack simply coz click wont execute or in most cases it will get executed and will be shown shown after your death. Another thing is that this game meant be played only on two difficulties, easy and extreme, On easy companions are able kill mobs and you dont have to do anything, on extreme the companions will be killed really fast, what will benefit you simply beacuse the AI sucks big time. There are some gaps in logic and order of things, towards to the endgame is getting worse, perhaps caused by money issues, but are bad and broken quest lines really necessary? First city contain a chest with level 3 lock next to your residence, so after you get level 3 unlock, then you found that chest contain only some shitty grey armor and 10 coins. Same goes for most places accessible by intiuition or vigor checks. Items stats are not matching quality. Perhaps there are some ballance issues or I was playing the game in wrong way. Ugly. So most troublesome things for me is the native local accent. Well hate to spoil your fun, but listen to English with really heavy russian accent is something I'll rather pass. There is reason for saying "go woke go broke".
Ever stared into aquarium unable to divert eyes? Well then, have bad news, this "game" is not meant for you then, it felt like being sucked between fishes and water plants. Yes there are some "action" in this game like search for some pieces, boss around found drones and such, but generally speaking is just relaxig experience with great visuals and music.
This game sucks, well yes sucks big time. The good thing is discounted. Is just like that old joke, hey Cossacks we have vodka, uraaa, is poisoned booo, but is for free, URAAAA... Lets get down to business, shall we? So someone mixed few things with really good intentions. Road to hell is paved with good intentions First ingredient was FTL with that random things during travel and way how to travel, next was good old Wing Commander space fight, with some improvments. Next thing was impression by Freelancer where you must have things just to keep up with next area and some of the flight design was added from thsi game here as well. As a final addition was Quake Arena Xaero, guessing from the enemies skill level and precision. Yea there is crafting and blueprint as well. There is slight catch thou, before you even collect necessary materials you be toast and this means that you are starting over from scratch with stock equipment. The outcome of this mixture is bad hangover. Whole game can be split into first part where some "in dont remember flick appear", next you in the space flying some junk. Two three hits will strip your shileds and boom you toast. Rinse and repeat. So if you are hard core masochist, perhaps this game is suided for you, but if you are looking to have some fun then look somewhere else.
Somehow fun game as it seems but with several flaws.There is a reason for all things in the game, so only three save slots, guess first is for assesment, second and third are meant to focus on missed content/choices. The game mechanics is really simple. Every character from each class have same attributes, just different pictures, there are two variants to each class, so for an example fencer is always same except second skill. Look for characters with highest stats in field you need and thats it. No development, no levels, just fixed stats, except main character. Everyone is cheap and can be really easy replaced. In theory, perks scaling from 1 to 5 on each, but you can go over 5 and that's starting to be naughty, so with proper approach every attempt to open a chest is critical success, every merchant encounter have vast inventory and so on. Character with highest score for the action is automatically selected so no need to switch to front. The main hard limit here is a weight of stuff you can carry. Materials weight is visible on contrary no weight information about remedies and so on. As for combat, there is no tactics except beat the crap out of the other party as fast as it gets. The main character can be placed everywhere, but shes only character who cannot be killed, therefore you wont loose equiped item and dont need to get bothered with recruiting. As major flaw I see there is no way how to skip intro/tutorials, the skip tutorial option only cut the chapter 0 where you find the main character, the rest of tutorials and cutscenes you have to suffer over and over again. Dont even try to "escape/ctrl+c" the intro when main character start climbing, there is no escape of this..., but on the bright side you can alt tab and do something else while the game continues in the background. Unfortunatelly there is no escape for the rest, such as open journal for the firts time and so on.
Should be about 3,5 star and yes is worth of money. The good, bad and ugly: Good: open world, yes there is freedom where you go, nice places to explore, collectables and so many nice views. Seems like interesting story from the start, but after a while please see ugly. The early stage where you have to explore every new machine and found the right attack pattern. Some funny and challenging quests like hunting grounds. Bad: Technical issues such as load times, screen flickering after 3-4 reloads, missing textures, all that what you might expect from PS port in early stages. Gameplay issues, physic sucks, where that main character about 55kg is nimble as fully loaded truck whilst several tons robot is nimble as feret. Sometime you get stun locked. Detection ranges are stupid and finally you can hide only in tall grass. The customization is lacking, you just buy better weapons on different areas and thats all, so pretty simple mechanics. Find weak spot and aim there. Quests are generic as usual, get that, kill this and so on, the impact of choices on overal outcome is none. Ugly: feminazi approach. All women are in charge, all strong competent, all males are either evil or incompetent or both even that sun king who governs largest nation in game have several insecurities. Main character from "humbly" stone age background acquired in no time several PhD from various sciences including advanced AI and she know and understand all things like robotics, is able to guess shape of earth from moon eclipse and so on, whilst rest of the world including her foster parent is bound to bows and arrows and superstition when AI outputs are called spirits or devils (guess gender...) and taken as gods where only selected few have access. The russian approach to electronics where you have hammer, pardon me tin can duct taped on pole what does the magic or some bigger hammer where you makng magic on tallneck when adding even some additional hand gestures, so PhD matter.
Tripple A game from the past yeah. Well great story yeah! Nice pics ohh hell yeah!!! Well awesome, right? So then why only one star, right? The problem is in game design, the enemies and in the overall combat experience. If I compare combat mechanics with really old HL today's Black Mesa, for the sake of the argument, then in HL FPS game all things are doable with given things. On contrary FarCry lacks any of that. You will find that in higher diffulties enemies are able see trought walls and headshoot you from absurd distances even with pistol, where you are having difficulty to score shot even on point blank range. So best option is that you go in most easy difficulty and with some invulenrability package, just to go trough cliche like story to see if the doctor evil is put into order in the end and you are able to catch the attention from empowered progressive female. Well bought it with a bundle, so I wont complain for price/value ratio, but this is not an old game where I will return to. Thing is that you might ask the question why this game engine is and wasnt used for MP FPS like good ol Vietcong or classic CS whilst from similar time...
