Dave Meredith

As a game based on the movies, the first three...it nails the atmosphere and character. Visually excellent, top,top draw sound representation. Really good quality audio. Now the important bits. AI is very basic. I believe this helps the game feel fun and slapstick but kills the immersion. Combat is clunky, platform work is clunky and climbing is clunky. Animations feel off at times. Now a point that's being missed. Lesbian characters, yes. They are here. If you have sub titles turned on then all the bad guys in the Vatican are named as Fascists...why? It's again, games making a point and pushing an agenda. They could have just given them Italian traditional forenames. Machine games never had these issues in it's two major Wolfenstein games...this is my biggest complaint. It has gameplay issues. It's a decent game, certainly not a 8 or 9...more like a 7.5. it's fun...fun in a game is great but it is massively dumbed down. You're told pretty much everything you need to do via chatter. The political bollocks within the game is my biggest complaint. I play games to escape day to day real world tat ..stop putting it into our games. Near 50 years as a gamer and it's getting worse each year...

This modern practice of under prepared games is a joke. Not all of us are spotty little kids with lots of free time. A job and family commitments means gaming time these days is a battle to find...I was hoping to play some POE2 tonight...never happened. Won't get another chance for a few days so have refunded. Sick if this nonsense. Get your act together GGG and don't release if not ready for the capacity of player numbers.

I will update my view if I see the game out but one thing I won't accept as a gamer who was there at gamings birth is ideology forced on the player because it's something the Devs feel strongly about. I game to be drifted into worlds that are not related to political themes. Never should political agendas be implemented into video games. Video games should be creative and fun. Forcing nonsense and or views onto others is fucking shamboloc. My three stars is due to a very performant and decent looking PC game which does some excellent technical qualities and also decent music.

Final update: PC version. PC version is superior in many ways on good hardware. I can finally appreciate and enjoy this excellent action game. 4K 120 FPS , maxed on with a 4090/7800X3D. Shame I had to pay £70 for the PS5 version..PC copy cost me £33..and it's as I stated above, superior. Image quality far exceeds the PS5 version. Finer detail really stands out...super smooth frame rates and performance. I did grab the small mod that unlocks all bar the FMV cut scenes to 60 FPS which makes a huge difference. The game is actually first class...stunning visually, incredible audio and it's fun to play...all pulled together I'm a way that only Japanese development teams can do . One of the best action games out there...finally.. Update 2: Had a look again a few days back and still the performance mode is rough. Ridiculously inconsistent framerates and camera stutter. It's some of the worst I've seen in recent times. The 30fps quality mode is still heavy and feels sluggish. I played for an extra hour but the section I was playing was both linear and basic. Not sure what happened to this FF title but I would assume Rebirth will put things right. "update" Came back to the game today. Sorry but the performance mode is shocking. Shame, but I have all but given up playing through this FF game. Really don't understand the shoddy performance mode. No way am I playing the sluggish 30fps mode. The visuals are not the greatest either... may pick it up if it comes to PC? Unfortunately as great as this edition to the huge series seems the performance mode stability issues means I have yet to play more than six hours and I am dissatisfied with this and will not play anymore unless the game clears up the performance mode. Yes, the 30fps mode is solid but it's not a great way to play the game and the motion blur is terrible. I will revise my review if and when a patch arrives to clean up a performance mode or when the PC version arrives.

An incredible Ueda shaped video game that blends all variants of emotion, fresh gameplay, frustration and a sense of adventure in a way only Ueda can provide.

Not quite sure why some dick head reviews gave this a one star? The gameplay is excellent. The sheer brutality is tense. The enemy combat in game is some of the best with regards to AI and the context. Whether folks like the choices engaged by the dev team is subjective. I was surprised at Joel's early death but it set the tone for the game. Playing as other characters was fine. The scope and magnitude of this title is huge. Seeing the story from another characters eyes was interesting. Had ND chose to stay close to the original the game would have felt like a version 1.5... Part Two evolves and improves lots on the original. We know what Ellie was, and I don't want to play as gay or lesbian characters but we all knew this going in. People need to relax. These are fictional characters. Go outside and get a real life. Stop obsessing over polygon models. Make real friendships. Games are art...creativity. Don't take them so seriously. A stand out game from ND and I am curious to see it on PC.

I turn 50 this year and I genuinely believed the days of incredible games like Astro Bot were long gone unless Nintendo develops a new 3D Mario adventure. If this game had the red Nintendo logo on the title screen you would play this game and believe it. I don't really need to say much more apart from it has extreme quality, innovation, charm, fun and it's challenging when it needs to be. It's a game that keeps giving, changing and wowing the player to such a high level of detail and care. It's a rare gem and deserves to be in the library of every PS5 owner.

I can see the harsh reviews simply because it's a UBI SOFT video game. Is this justified? No, judge the game on merit, not on agendas. I am not a Star wars fan and I've found it to be one of UBI SOFTS better games. Technically it's pretty bloody good on a high end PC. Gameplay is always above mediocre. It's got interesting design , stealth and exploration and it all comes together quite well. It's a Snowdrop powered game and it shows. UBI Massive are pretty damn good and delivering decent games. Set aside your UBI agenda and you will most likely enjoy this game. It's better than Mirage and I actually found it to be better than Avatar, it's more balanced and more interesting. It is a masterpiece, no. Is it below average, no. It's a solid video game that comes together well in many areas...it's not worth the £70 plus price, no game really is. I paid £38 for my standard copy on PC and I am not offended by that outlay. It's a solid 7-8/10. No idea how it is on console or low spec PC?

One of the very best games I've played in 45 years. A phenomenal video game. Artistic, audio quality,gameplay...and it's fun, engaging and captures your imagination.. it's a true masterpiece. Playing on PC.