Sam Weaver

i was really looking forward to this game. My issue is this - its not a better or similar make to stalker 1. Apart from bugs and lag - the game, moving around the map. All of a sudden - your shot. where did you get shot from? a secret team hidden in the bushes for an ambush? No - enemy spawn. enemies spawn mostly right behind you. enemies sometimes spawn Infront of your eyes! this sounds silly, but this initially ruined the game - the immersiveness of the game! like - completely ruined it. i go around the map - and i cant seem to go ANYWHERE without this happening. i wanted to explore this massive map. but i cant, without taking continous shots and attacks. i dont want a game where im just continously attacked. it creates a sense of overwhelminess, lots of reloads and no time to 'take it on' breath and think about things. which stalker did a far better job at. what i liked about stalker was the vast open world, where you could see enemies in the distance. you could think and calculate to some degree. this new stalker - although visually stunning, feels just way to overwhelming and unfair. i like a challenge - i dont like unfair. or if its unfair - you should know its unfair. i believe this is a bug - and i dont know if they are going to remove this. once they do i will play this again. i think this game could be incredible. i cant stand the insta spawning. it takes away all realism, all sense of immersiveness. i just cant get over this... the game is ruined. although apart from this - i have enjoyed the game overall although unfinished.

In the last 30 years of playing games i have had a stronger and stronger fleeting feeling. The feeling that games are getting worse. I feel that game designers like ubisoft, bethesda, activision and other such companies have complied to what they believe is what people want. They make games that are 'MASSIVE' but empty, the 'GRAPHICS' are amazing! but theres no solid gameplay. Levelling systems that feel empty, with games that try to be 'realistic' but fail at simple mechanics of a 'brutal slash to the neck', to which enemies turn around and one hit you. Empty shooting mechanics that have not changed since 1999. The feeling that you are playing the same level on repeat, just manipulated with 'slightly harder enemies and different weapons'. I am so tired of overwhelming huge maps with nothing to do, dire gameplay that feels like your doing a choir. In reality, no one wants the ‘most realistic graphical game’. No one wants ‘huge maps that feel like your going to the super massive shopping centre half an hour away because your wife said ‘it has all the best products’. Expedition 33 is not any of this. It is what I have been longing for, for so long. While other games are 3 or 4 stars, this game truly deserves a 5 star rating. This game is so freggin enjoyable, making tasks a desire and longing to do. Fun tasks and an anticipation of what happens next, accessing new areas of the map of what is hidden and the levelling up system is so enjoyable. I desire to level my characters. The gameplay, despite it being turn based is surprisingly enjoyable. They have thought long and hard, sat down and thought “how can we actually make this game fun” as opposed to desiring to ‘sell as many copies as possible’. I cant even know the reasons why this is so good – but it is. It starts out a bit slow, but as you get into you realise this game has so much more depth than you would of ever thought. The story line is good, not amazing. I really enjoy the interactions with the NPC’s. not long and drawn out. I know when they have finished – when they repeat the same thing again. However, one thing this game is not – is realistic. But it works because its not meant to be. This game brings back the incredibly good concepts back from the 1990’s and early 2000’s. This is why this game is a breath of fresh air.