To me this game seemed a very serious RPG experience. A lot of games are blamed for too much hand holding. Not in this game. Most of the time you don't know where you should be going or what you should be doing. I guess discovery is part of the fun? The quest log is a mess, doesn't really help. Inventory could use a search function. The difficulty also varies a lot. First you might be fighting some enemies without too much trouble, then you suddenly get a battle that you can't win. Optimizing character skills and equipment is a must. Completing side quests also (but you have to find them first!). If you're tired of glorified walking simulators where you just follow an arrow to eventual victory without thinking, then this game can offer some more challenge. Myself I'm a bit too casual for this game. Might complete it some day, but for now it's too time consuming, not worth it.
You wake up on a spaceship with cybernetic implants and something has gone wrong... The plot is ok with some twists, but where this game really shines is the atmosphere. Even after many, many playthroughs I'm still scared of going to some areas and hearing the whirring of cyborg midwives makes me want to run away. And you're always out of bullets. The game is outdated by now, but after 20 years there's active mod community going, with graphics patches, new campaigns (fanmissions) and balancing improvements. Despite the small flaws, SS2 is one of my favorite games, also today. Good: * Replayabilility with different styles/classes * Atmosphere, genuinely scary * Mod content Bad * Some of the weapons and skills are useless * A bit outdated graphics by now * FPS mechanics are a bit cumbersome (the Dark engine wasn't designed for shooting)
The game is mostly a simplified Settlers with Viking theme. You're commanding a group of Vikings, building structures such as farms and woodcutters' huts, training camps for army, etc. There's no need to worry about production chains - all resources (food, wood, stone etc.) are stored in a global pool. As a real-time strategy, game tempo is faster than Settlers but slower than StarCraft. I really wish there was way to pause the game while moving the camera and checking things at least. Sometimes it feels there's too much going on and no time to react, sometimes it feels like nothing is happening for 10 minutes. Art style is cute, a bit cartoony.
Good: * Story is decent * Characters have personality * Most of the dialog is voice acted, and the quality is good * Lots to do Bad: * Buggy: crashes and missing NPCs. Some quests cannot be completed, but those have all been side quests so far. * Ship-to-ship combat could have been so much better done, now it seems like an afterthought.
I love the Witcher series games, and Witcher 3 has the most content. The world in Witcher 3 is almost completely open with a huge amount of land and quests to explore. The main campaign with side quests took 100h for me, and it feels like I've only seen half of the game world, not counting the expansions.
