Gabe Rea

I came here looking for something that would give me the same vibe as Mutant Year Zero and, although it looked hopeful for a while, this is not the game I was looking for. It’s so frustrating that this could have been great but missed its potential because of some easily resolvable design issues. For me those issues are: - cover: it’s a tactical game and certainly for the 20 hours I played it half-cover made almost no difference, I think I got missed by an enemy shot 3 times in that entire time. This was on the default difficulty, you can change in-game but the easier setting doesn’t change the hit rate, it just makes the game a total cake-walk. - characters: the dialogue and character voices are terrible, this is very subjective but I was not engaged. - game design: the maps are, ok but levelling up characters is dull and rarely had much impact, it’s all very linear. If they had just made the cover work I could have seen past all the other faults. So close.