Asa Turner

A pathetic attempt at a revival of the original. It feels forced, trying to add scenes from the movie that no person on the planet Earth has watched and shove them into the ps2 game’s story. As a result, the plot line is significantly worsened. The game design also feels rushed, as if Insomniac just said “screw it, let’s add a bunch of random enemies for every encounter and not care about whether or not it is well-balanced or fun.” Often many projectiles assail your senses from all sides of the screen and it’s impossible to tell what’s going on., so you get stuck in a repetitive gameplay loop of strafing, randomly jumping, and shooting as many projectiles as the game allows you to. There are also several instances of bugginess I have encountered. Mainly enemies will clip inside of objects at random, still allowing them to shoot at you without you being able to do anything about it. Overall this game is a mess, Insomniac is such a better game developer than this in general, and it is a shame that this game just didn’t feel all that great compared to their other titles such as all of the other ratchet and clank games that are better than this.

Subnautica is a great experience, my one problem with it is it’s complete lack of an auto save system. You have to manually save. Combine that with the fact that the game is infamous for inconveniently crashing, and you can end up losing a lot of progress as I have before. If the game auto saved or just didn’t crash it would be a near flawless game, though. It has great visuals, awesome sense of progression and atmosphere, a fitting soundtrack and fun gameplay.