Jeremy Squire

Let me make this easy for everyone to understand. This is NOT the game it was hyped to be OR the game the majority of fans were expecting. Let me start by listing positive aspects to the game: The side content/missions are fun and interesting; It’s fun being able to go anywhere; the ship building is cool and so is the base building. Now the negatives: The main story is boring and tedious; it’s a copy and paste job of you doing the exact same thing over and over with a couple of interesting missions in-between. The AI has no intelligence. I can shoot one multiple times before it even realises it’s in a gun fight; The procedurally generated POI repeat too often to the point whereby locations are identical with identical enemy spawns; Planets are empty and barren with literally no point to exploration. It’s boring a tedious and there’s not a single benefit to running aimlessly for 10 minutes. If you’re lucky you’ll find a POI that’s another copy and past job from every other planet; there’s no seamless flight between planets and orbit, infact seamless flight doesn’t exist at all. 70% of the game is a loading screen. This is all immersion breaking and it also makes ship upgrades completely pointless. The whole game is an illusion of breadth and exploration but when you actually try to explore that depth and breadth, you realise that there’s no content to keep you interested. I’d sooner watch paint dry than explore one of Starfield’s empty planets. One of Bethesda’s marketing lines was ‘’Unparalleled freedom and exploration’’, what they should have said instead is ‘’Unlimited exploration on empty worlds with limitations on freedom secondary to multiple loading screens’’.

Amnesia the bunker is a FANTASTIC stand alone title that subtly incorporates amnesia lore into its main story. You are a French soldier who wakes up alone in a bunker, after playing a short prologue. You spend your time free roaming the bunker trying to complete objectives that require attention to detail in some cases and brute force in other cases. The whole time you’re fighting to keep the power on because the creature that stalks you hunts more regularly when the lights go out. If there’s a power outage and you’re nowhere near one of the only save points in the game, then good luck and have fun getting back. The creature never stops stalking. However its spawns are randomly generated and can be influenced by factors such as power, noise and campaign milestones. The game reminded me of alien isolation. Very scary game, very fun and 10/10 recommend. My only criticism is that it was far too short and I completed it within 1 day.