river blacksmith

This game has massive potential, biggest flaw though, is that it's like they're trying to rival cyberpunk for glitchiest game ever. I'm currently unable to progress the story because it won't let me talk to Rowe to initiate the tower mission. Randomly falling through the map is another glitch, npcs not spawning, and if you care about the story in this STORY game, you'll have to be okay not hearing 75% of the cutscene dialogue since it glitches out 75% of the time, this is an issue on both ps4 and ps5. The sound in general often won't load. The player menu, like your inventory and map stuff will freeze for a couple seconds whenever you go to the "journal" or "map" tabs. It feels like a new independent studio made this game, the mistakes that aren't glitches are very amateur-dev of them, such as abilities will be unusable, literally, because other abilities have the same button prompt, I have default button settings btw. The upgrading equipment system is a little tedious and lack luster, you'd think collecting the rarer items would be the hard part but you literally have to grind the common stuff like "uncommon trophies" 99% more of the time than the rare upgrade items. The combat is dull and a little clunky. Parkour is pretty fun but also a little clunky. You can also tell they don't really know how to design stealth friendly option missions or areas, like enemy patrol placements and how enemies respond to lures and distractions as well as cover placements and hiding spots. As for the experience, the voice acting is pretty good, the story from what I get to actually hear is very interesting, the visuals are great, however it's the theme and sound that need massive work. It's like their composer quit 5 minutes into development, it's got a very repetitive soundtrack/score, and it doesn't make sense. It's a zombie game, and there will often be bone chilling screams of people in the distance, dying, but that's all accompanied by this tranquil woodlands background music, like I'm fishing on a lake at my cabin peacefully. It ruins the vibe, we need creepier music, more suspense, more intensity in the action scenes, there's no part of this that makes you jump, even if you're playing at 2am alone creeping around a dark building full of dormant zombies that could wake up and kill you, it's soundtrack ruins any sort of suspense or theme setting. In summary, the glitches RUIN the game to the point of it nearly being unplayable, the soundtrack ruins any sort of attempt at establishing a theme, and the combat is clunky and dull. Parkour is fun, genuinely it is, it's story is great, tons of content. It seems most of their effort went into content diversity and quantity which I respect a lot. It feels like they tried their hardest not to copy fallout while copying fallout completely, but fallout was great so if it works, it works.

The rank system is a joke. In team gamemodes, it ranks you based on your teams performance. You could be god almighty but if the game keeps matching you with two terrible teammates, you'll suffer until it brings you down from say diamond to platinum 1, I speak from experience. I've had games where I score a hat trick and have 4 saves but lose and I go down a rank simply because my team mates weren't any good. It's such a stupid evaluation, what a joke. Then the matchmaking is even worse. If you play ranked 3v3 and you dont have a team of two friends with you, it will put you with 2 randoms against a party of 3 guys 95% of the time. There is a game mode called 3v3 solos but nobody plays it so it's pointless. I've never seen a more broken ranked matchmaking system in my life. Playing casual is also cancerous, people can leave the game and they do whenever they get scored on. It's a great game in concept but its matchmaking and ranked eval. System ruins it

This game while having a great story of a campaign, was very disappointing. It was a marketing stunt at best. The games multiplayer is absolutely unplayable, with terrible spawns, terrible map designs and limited quantity of them too, terrible meta balance, terrible hit registration. Every game has its launch bugs and things to be fixed and tweaked, but this game would need more than mere tweaks and patches. This games multiplayer needs a complete overhaul. Onto the campaign, and while it being a good story, it was a very short one as well. The visual design of it and storyline kept me satisfied and entertained while playing it though it didnt deserve the modern warfare title. It fell short of the classic modern warfare trilogy campaigns, which were more of an action packed cinematic experience and less of a action thriller story. The first in the series saw you doing stuff like fighting in a nuclear bunker, taking down power lines, saving the world etc. MW2 saw you running through the streets and on top of the rooftops of favela, fighting in sandstorms, fighting for the White House. Mw3 had buildings being dropped on you, the Eiffel Tower being knocked down, fighting to save the Russian president in a crashing plane. So many epic moments in those campaigns yet this campaign didnt have any real memorable moments other than the opening scene which was very well done. The co-op missions arent bad, they're very difficult but with teamwork and effort it feels very rewarding to complete them. They didn't resemble the old modern warfare co-op stuff though, even the "classic co-op" mode doesnt feel like the old co-op missions. In summary, this marketing stunt I mentioned earlier comes from the fact that if you were to change the characters names from the story and cut out the last scene of the game, it would still be a good story, and the game would be absolutely the same because the story had nothing to do with the actual classic modern warfare campaigns in any way. The multiplayer doesnt resemble the classic trilogy and nor does the co-op. Therefore the title of modern warfare was simply there because everybody would buy it thinking it was going back to the good ole days when the call of duty series was good but in reality this game is terrible. Highly recommend you save your money on this one.