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The game is just okay at best. Ship battles can be fun, but that's like 90% of the gameplay, This game is more of a naval combat game than a pirate game. You also harvest/collect items and resources to craft upgrades for your ship or to sell for silver. Everything about the game is pretty average and just "okay". The graphics, while not awful, aren't very impressive and just looks like an older Assassins creed title (there are random texture bugs, with textures not loading fast and sometimes looking purple and glitchy). Most of the quest are fetch quests or sink a ship/kill sea creature. The emotes are generic and the limited outfits are mostly boring (I'm sure they're saving the best for battle pass). There's no on foot combat, just hub areas you can dock at. The story is non existent, it's just a lot of NPC talk. You can't even get drunk or anything like that. It really doesn't make you feel like you're living the pirate life. With all that said, I did still have a little fun with it for a short while. As I said, the ship battles are fun and similar to black flag (but not exactly the same). It has a alright atmosphere and sailing the open seas can be chill. Fighting sea monsters and ghost ships can be fun. Upgrading and customizing your ship is fine. Endgame you just grind for pieces of eight to go up the leaderboards and that's it. There's just no variety in this game at all, especially for a "quadruple A" game that was in development for 11 years. Unacceptable. Hopefully the game adds more variety and things to do in future updates/seasons, but as it is, it's not worth full price. I'm not going to say the game is absolute trash, it's not, it's just mediocre on every level. A lot of people will get bored of this game pretty fast.

Boring, way too much traveling back and fourth, and soooo much loading. Games like Skyrim and Fallout were fantastic to explore and it had something new and interesting around every corner, and it made you feel like you were on an actual adventure. Starfield isn't like that. You just fast travel from point A to point B, with 90% of the planets being empty, and no vehicles to get around them. There are a few alright quests, but nothing memorable. The only thing to shoot are humans, so not much variety there. Building outposts is absolutely pointless, and while there is a robust ship creation tool, I just didn't see much point in it, especially since the space battles are mediocre. On top of that, there is no seamless transition when traveling from space to planet (No man's sky achieved this years ago). I had such high hopes for this, but I was disappointed by almost every facet of the game. Perhaps I got sucked too much into the hype when people were saying it's going to be "game of the generation", and that's my fault, but in all honesty I would rather just play NMS or the still amazing Mass Effect trilogy than play an utterly boring and disappointing game like Starfield. Thankfully I got a free month trial of Game Pass, so I got to play through it for free. If I had actually paid full retail for it, I would have been quite upset.

Completely lacking content, has very few levels(and those levels are empty and boring), no multiplayer at all, and buggy and unpolished to boot. The control scheme is also not fun at all. If you like the idea of just being randomly dropped into a level and skating around in emptiness, then this may be for you. For most other people who want a FUN skateboarding game, with depth and content, you will have to wait for Skate 4. I really do hate these bare bones skater sims that try too hard to appeal to "real skaters". If developers want to make money, they should focus on making the game FUN for a wider audience, and actually put effort and some content into their game.

Extremely bare bones and unpolished. No objectives, no multiplayer, no music, generic characters, small levels with bad designs. Literally all you do is bike around a generic level (or flop around like you're having a seizure). You don't even score points. The bailing and flopping around gave me a few laughs, but got old quick. The riding physics are interesting, but literally everything else in the game has little to no effort put into it. At least the game was pretty cheap (still not cheap enough though). I applaud them for trying, but this game isn't going to hold your attention for very long at all. Honestly, it's barely even a game at all.

A lot of people expecting this to be as good as the Skate series, but based on what I've played (demo), it's not even close to the fun that Skate is. The good thing about Skate was it was a solid mix of arcade and simulation gameplay, and it had a user friendly control scheme that made it much easier to get into. These guys are trying to be pure simulation, and trying to appeal mostly to "hardcore" or "real" skaters. Infinite Air tried to do the same thing, and you can see how well that game did. As a result, this game has a terrible control scheme, lacks any character, and has completely stripped any of the hilarious, wacky, and fun things that made Skate such a great experience. If you think this game will be the next skate, you are only setting yourself up for disappointment. This game just isn't fun. On top of all of that, even if the game did turn out to be fun, it's only being released on PC and Xbox. So if you are a PS4 player, then tough luck.

It's a fun game in short bursts, but with some more polish and perhaps a higher budget to work with, this could have been a real special game.As it is, it's at least a half decent attempt at making a modern Road Rash game, but it definitely has some issues. For a game that was made by a small team it's a decent game, but it may not hold your attention for long. Still, it's a million times better than that garbage Road Rage.