2 steps back. For every good thing the game does, it does 2 or more bad things. The optimization is great, smooth game, but the story is painfully boring. The characters are so generic, you never feel a drive to save anyone. Also the story is often told in radio connections, that overlap, sometimes 3 at once. You can't even move or another person will contact you and create a cacophony in your ears. Terrible sound design. Hard to even hear where an enemy is coming from. The pacing is terrible, at the start you get a decent shotgun for all of 10 minutes, then it's back to low quality weapons and tedious scavenging. Leveling up is so slow, 3 hours in you're barely level 2. The critics were right on this one. It is bad. The fans, not so much.
