Zach Olney

I’ll say that I enjoyed this game more than I thought I would. While it starts off great, it gets pretty repetitive and Grindy after awhile. I’m not compelled to play it hours on end , but it’s fun in small doses. The parkour is pretty cool, and there are some interesting tactics and moves you can unlock. The atmosphere looks great. Techland always produces incredible looking games. The character designs look good. Some missions get drawn out. You look for “person A” and they tell you to go find “person B” all the way across the map. Then that person tells you to go back to “person A” sort of thing. You try to complete one quest and you have to complete like three side quests. Sometimes it feels like your decisions don’t really matter. For example one of the first major decisions you have to make, whatever side you choose you feel like you end up doing the exact same thing. There are no major consequences of your decisions like in Fallout or Mass Effect. The same goes for the dialogue. No matter what dialogue you choose you still have the same outcome, whereas in other games conversations can change completely based on how you respond to characters. Overall it has some flaws, but it’s still a good solid game. It feels like a combination of Dead Island /Fallout. It’s pretty expansive with a lot to discover for a game that’s only around 30 gbs.

It’s challenging and requires a lot of stealth/tactical skills. Feels somewhat clunky in some areas. Like you are standing right in front of something but have to position yourself just right for the button prompt to pop up if you are trying to grab something. Sometimes tasks that you are trying to complete require certain enemies to spawn in the round. But the variety of aliens that spawn in each round are different so you have to play two or three rounds just to get the research data that you need. It can be fun . But it does get repetitive, and eventually you are just grinding for the sake of leveling up the operators.