This game plays like most Ubisoft titles: you wander around the a big, detailed world, and get into combat. Combat is reasonably fun but nothing special. Dialogue, choices, and the story do not matter. If you're looking for a game ike New Vegas, The Witcher 3, or other RPG classics, you won't find that here. The game is also really buggy which does not help. Without the bugs, I would have given it a 3/5 instead of a 2/5.
If you're like, you play Obsidian games for the branching plot lines, interesting characters, and dynamic faction systems. Tyranny delivers all of that, and it's wrapped in a refreshingly and authentically evil premise. The game took me through the most interesting mediation on the nature of power since "War and Peace." If that sounds exaggerated or pretentious, it's just that I reallly can't describe any other way. For a setting, the game eschews standard medieval fantasy land for a more bronze-age aesthetic, which I appreciated. On the mechanical side, I personally did not care for the combat system in this game. It runs in real time while allowing plauses, but in no way benefits from its real time component, and relies heavily on pressing ability buttons constantly. Not my cup of tea, but you may like it. Despite the combat, the game's story and role-playing elements impressed me so much that I count this as one of the best modern RPGs.
