Garrick Elliott

Already 6 hours in and I am already over this game. Here is my break down of the game. To start, the skill tree is atrocious. All of the parkour skills are locked deeply within the skill tree. Which would be fine except for this game is designed around parkour. And speaking of parkour, I felt like it was very clunky and not smooth as it should be. It made traversal more difficult than it had to be. It is as if the controls aren’t very responsive and they felt bogged down if that makes since. The interface was also atrocious. It was pretty much menus within menus. It was hard to navigate because there was so much clutter. Very poorly laid out. I would often get confused and forget what things were in what menu. I guess I just got frustrated because the menus were hard to navigate and they gave me a headache. The story was kind of bland. I got bored with it shortly after starting the game. But I kept on trucking though. The game play and combat where also kind of boring. I had to force myself to push through. I could only do 6 hours and I had to stop playing and pick up something else because I was literally falling asleep. The game was just too slow. Honestly all of the pointless climbing all over everything, running and jumping from one boring roof top to another just isn’t my idea of fun. Hey look over there another boring roof top. Oh wait it just keeps going. On and on and on. Just running, jumping, repeat. Don’t get me started on the game world. The map was more littered and cluttered than an Ubisoft game. Sorry ubi, I still love you. There is just too much packed in to it. I get that the game is supposed to take 500 hours to complete everything in the game but it gets overwhelming. Especially when every ten feet there is some type of objective, collectible, random event, side quest, NPC needing help, ect. The size of the map wasn’t the problem, I actually like large maps because I like exploring, but this map just has so much stuff packed in to every nook and cranny. I also felt like this game had a lot of pointless stuff in it. For one, the zombies. I mean you could just take the zombies completely out and it would not make a difference. You don’t even really have to interact with them that much. You can just run right past them. I mean that’s basically all you do in this game. Run here, jump there. Fight the occasional bad guy. Mostly just running and jumping from point A to point B. There where several settlements and NPCs but the game felt dead, no pun intended. It felt like a lifeless open post apocalyptic world even though there is so much packed in to it. But there are a few good redeeming qualities about the game. For one, the voice acting is on point. The cut scenes flow very well and you could tell that a lot of work went in to them. Too bad the story fell flat. The complexity of the world building was impressive and the open world was beautiful despite the boring cities. There is plenty to do in this game to keep you busy. It isn’t a terrible game, it’s just doesn’t live up to the hype. Nor does it compare to the first dying light. I guess this game isn’t really for me. I might try to pick it up again someday. To sum it all up, I give this game three stars. It is just an ok game with some good qualities. A little on the boring and repetitive side with forgettable missions and characters. It just falls flat for me but like I said, I might give it another shot one day.

I rarely give reviews, but this game was so bad I had to. Let’s start with the graphics. They are horrendous. Absolutely terrible in comparison to the previous games. The tornadoes look like a four year old drew them with a grey crayon. Enough about that. The gameplay was sloppy and glitchy. The story was, honestly I don’t even know what the story was about. It was poorly written. Don’t get me started on the voice acting. The characters sounded as if they were bored. The extremely noticeable fake accents were annoying. I forced myself to finish the game because I always give games a chance, now I wish I hadn’t. Honestly one of the worse games I have played in a few years. Oh and one more thing, there are very few choices of weapons for an action game. I thought there would of been more variety.

Ok here we go. I put a good 60+ hours in to this game so I can honestly say, as much fun as I did have, the game had some serious issues. To start, the story. I mean it has great potential to start with, but it just kind of ends. Like literally, you just keep going and it’s like ok, no more main missions. What. I was really disappointed with it. The whole game felt incomplete from the start. Like there being an option to collect materials off of downed drones and dead enemies, but the materials them selves being used for absolutely nothing. Like what’s the point. The gear level system was atrocious. You would have to grind for literal days to find better gear. There were so many things that were unfinished in this game upon its release. It was literally an unfinished game. I felt ripped off. With all of that being said, for the most part, the game was somewhat fun. The game was just broken and incomplete. I give it only three stars due to that. (I believe there have been updates since launch, but I’m not sure what they consist of. Maybe the game is better now.)

**NO SPOILER REVIEW* I have played the game from beginning to end, this is my honest review. The game play: 4 out of 5. The combat feels a little clunky. Swapping weapons during combat is annoying, you have to go through a small menu to select the weapon you want. In the mean time you are getting shot to death. A simple weapon wheel would have been better. Other than that, the over all game play is great, improved from the previous game. Graphics: 5 out of 5. The world is amazing. Story: I give the story a 4 out of 5. I think it is well written, I don’t have much complaint about it other than some of the story being extremely slow. Some of the cut scenes felt like filler. I will say there are some very dark elements to the story, I can’t really go into much detail without there being spoilers. This is one of those games that will divide the gaming community. All I will say about it is that you have to just play the game and form your own opinion. I went into this game not really knowing what to expect, but I came out really enjoying it. It was a really fun game. I give the overall game a 4 out of 5.

It is an overall good game. It is kind of short and it has a few bugs. The game will occasionally crash and the frame rate will slow way down. Other than technical issues the gameplay is relatively good. The graphics are amazing. It is completely open world meaning you can travel all over the vast map and explore very unique and interesting places. I thought it was going to be a very poor game but I was surprised. I gave it only 4 stars due to the bugs and technical problems. I’m sure an update will fix some of those issues.