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Less a same and more a background tool but the visuals are charming and the vibes are immaculate. Fully recommend for just something nice to keep on the screen while you do things while a wonderful curated selection of songs.

It's Metal Slug with Gacha and some Rogue-Lite Elements.

Still It's Metal Slug.

Short and Sweet, Its GTO without all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Free Roam Stripped down to essentials with just enough activity to keep you entertained and provides an excellent Solo Experience. Best in smaller bursts when you got an hour or two to burn.
Its a bit tough for a New player to start up. Money earning is Small, Better hunting equipment is expensive, and some of the better money earning activites (Collector and Moonshiner) is essentially a 40 dollar purchase unless you Really Grind Daily challenges, Which you start with barely any and are Unlocked by leveling.

The starter Weapons are Decent since headshots are Always 1 hit 1 kill.

Some basic tips to any budding frontiersmen
1) Get a Posse,
While the Solo Experience is Great, It IS an Online Game first and is always more enjoyable with friends.
2) Respect your Neighbors.
Unlike GTO, Players are Far more likely to live and let live and are generally Friendly. 2 Passing souls on the road to their own destiny. Unless your in High Traffic areas it's difficult to find other players. Also nice, Noone appears on the map unless they are hunted or you are nearby and I mean very close. Which Is such a nice thing to have.
3)Hunt, Hunt, Hunt
Get used to it, It is going to be the no1 activity you will be doing aside from the Short story mission to get set up with cash until you can afford Some of the other roles.
4) Soft Survival mechanics
And I mean it is Soft, Really the only survival management you have to worry about is what you are wearing. Clothing comes with a Thermal Rating telling you if it is better suited for the cold. So sometimes you would have to sacrifice fashion just so you wont die of heat stroke in the Desert or Swamp, Or freeze to death in the waist high snow of the north.

Overall, Red Dead Online is a great Relaxing experience. Hunting, Fishing, Bounty Hunting, Moonshining, Treasure Hunting. It has Many Things for you to chase while you scurry over the New Frontier.
A Definite must get.
See you out in the wilds, Cowboy.

Ill keep this short as I really don't have much to say on it.

Pro's:
-As a fighting game It is solid.
-Animations are smooth combos are fluid and fast.
-The Fighting styles and characters are Varied and Unique.
-The Quality is beautiful and the stages are nice to look at.
-A Good size of characters to choose from at Base with a good amount of alternate outfits.

Con's:
-Story mode is extremely Convoluted, and is for some reason extremely low quality.
-Most of the outfit choices are just Recolor's so characters that may have "A lot" it is mostly just the same 2 or 3 with different color patterns (like my boy Diego technically only has 2 outfits)
-Obvious favor towards the female characters in choice of outfits (not that I blame anyone as this is usually always the case in fighters or really any game)
-Online only has a random ranked mode, meaning you cant really play with friends (this is subject to change)

I give it my Recommendation to people who are Fan's of Fighters looking for a new Fighting game to play.
It's Solid and In My Opinion, enough base content to hold Most over for a while. Although At current time If you prefer to play online with friends It may be better to wait. And I Wont Sugercoat this but the "Sexual Content" is honestly minimal. Sure you some Jiggly Boobs and Skimpy outfits But they are rather tame and only a very few of the cast even have outfits that can be considered "Risky", at Least at this time. With the rest being rather normal enough to see in the street in warmer climates.

As for the Price. 60 is fine if your a Fan to begin with But for Others I may be better to wait for a 15 to 20USD price drop and at that time new outfits for the characters should be available aswell as any other additions or changes to the game.



Now for the Hot Topic at this time I wish to address.
The Season Pass and Honestly I don't care. Is the Asking Price absurd. Yes, it is. A season pass the costing around 50% More then Base price of the game On day one is absurd.

But here is why I Don't care. It is Completely Optional and Has ZERO effect on the game.

All of it is cosmetic With the exception of the DLC characters BUT they will be available outside of the pass anyway. And even then they do show What the pass will Include. And for me about half the pass I don't want. I already have my handful of characters that I would want outfits for.
Buying the Pass Only means you will have Outfits For All the Characters regardless if you even want them. So really the Season pass will only appeal to a small amount of users to begin with And Most of is content will be purchasable Outside of the Pass meaning you can pick and choose what you want.

Buying the season pass is essentially just a Pre-purchase of all the content before release and May be cheaper then buying all of them now as a bundle instead of Individually later.

If you had to chose to get this game. Don't. Not now. Wait for a sale.

If you want to play a Tomb Raider get Rise Of The Tomb Raider.

Combat is better, It has Far more Content, Replayable Challenge mode with many Multplyers and Buffs to Augment the Challenges and an Overall More enjoyable Gameplay. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is just So far Less content. The Story mode alone is not enough to carry this heavily anemic game. There is no replay value. The Tombs are laughable and the Extra Hard Hard Mode is less enoyable and more frustrating. It doesnt acutally change anything. Just removes Mid-tomb check points. In Story mode this is not fun at all.

Alright it's almost been a year since I written this review. It's time to update and Sadly It has be a a negative.A Year since i played it and I just cannot recommend it. The Dev's have not made any changes I listed in the past. They are pushing forward but not in what can Really make the game great.
COMMUNICATION

This game has a Severe lack of any form on communication with Randoms. This game as it is not is extremly against you acutally helping your team. New people Get destroyed when playing with veterens Or A single veteren is left having to carry the entire team alone because they are unable to simply Tell the team what to do. Missions really should not take longer then 20 min with a Good team let alone a pre-built one. But most matchs so far have been 30-50 min And Lost. And this is Without an Antagonist even in the game. The Antagonist makes things worse for Newbies especially if the Antag is a Veteren.

The game Economy also has taken a turn for the worse. The longer matchs Negetavly effect you with Lower EXP and Lower Score making leveling up For the Weapons and Characters Harder and that's if you even win. I am sad for this. I Want to enjoy this game more then i do. I want to play it more often. I Want to show my friends That this game is worth their time. Even Free they wont bother. The lack of communication makes it impossible to Create new friends and the stress Of people running around not knowing what to do is only making people angry.

This game Has so much potential and So much Obvious and Easy Flaws that the Devs just for whatever reason refuse to adress. I Dont know why.



(this is kept for Archive of the past version of the game)
Game has it problems But what it has so far is great With more down the line
IMO it still rather lacking in content BUT Has to potential for Major growth*

The Gameplay is Solid If a little strange to get a grip with Kb/M
Graphics are Very nice and the Character Design is visually appealing
Story Is Ok---Of course unless your playing first time with friends most players will skip it instantly

The Antagonist mode Rather Alright Im My Opinion.While not always, SomeTimes at the start you and your team will be paired with a Antagonist (basically imagine a Darksouls Invader) They have 1 and only 1 job. To stop you from winning. They have all the Minion and mooks on their side and they will Keep coming back Until you either Win or Lose.
While Cool It can get annoying To have them there Aswell as sometimes either being Too Good at his job(which hurts the fun of the group) Or Too Bad at his job(which hurts the fun of the Antagonist).

Rewards Are rather Split. At the End you get 3 Rewards,
-Faction points(of your chosen charater)
-Character Points(obvious)
- and Gold
Each player gets a choice of what to choose and The Prize is Split for each player who choses the same reward.
So if 4 players choose Gold, It is split 4 ways.
Also at the each of each successful mission There is a chance of reciving various weapon Blueprints(which are stated At the Mission details) Unlike the regular prizes Only 1 player can get away with the Blueprints SO If 4 players choose the blueprint Only 1 will leave with it.

Note i never mentioned the antagonist. Well That is because the antagonist get basically Nothing For winning. Except Rank. Which can Be lost If the Antagonist Loses his match's. Not only is this A Downer But The Blueprints Require you to hold certian Antagonist Ranks to Even build them Which mean You MUST play antagonist to progress aswell as not Lose too much otherwise it will take longer to craft anything

This aswell as the lack of any Real Reward for casual COOP players can leave you hollow. But then again When was it that LOOT is a complete nessesity for Enjoyment of the game.
When i play this game im reminded of Lost Planet 2 and LFD Which i Love dearly.

In The End, The game is Solid if Rather Hollow. It Is a blast to play And more Episodes are due to come out down the line. But Is in a Niche market without Much to hold people over.
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"Other Thoughts"
While on steam the playerbase is rather small It Does Actually Feature CROSSPLAY with ps4, while the Windows 10 Edition is X with Xbone. The Devs are trying to convice Msoft to Enable crossplay With Steam so the Xbone can also connect with the Steam version of the game.

If you are able to run it and run itwell then As a COD game its no diffrent.

Although There are many gameplay choices I have issue with.Such as the inclusion of Division powers and Again with grenades being to easy. Another case where i wish Valve would Implement a stupid Middle reccomendation because while Its a BAD WWII game taking so many liberties it may aswell be historical fantasy and many stupid and idiotic Gameplay choices that I wish, It can still be enjoyable despite what i find stupid and idiotic.

DO not buy this game at release. Wait at least until a 30% or more sale. Not worth the full price As it stands now and DO not pre order.

I like the new Histograph

So far it seems to be a pretty good game. Its like WOrld of Warships Crossed with Guns of icarus.

As you progress with your ships you Gain acess to new Teirs After upgrading your current ship enough. Much like World of warships.

You ship Class determines Your playstyle. small Ambush ships. Extremly fast, Moderate damage, Low sheilds and HP
all the way up the the mighty DEADNOUGHTS, basically the Tank of the ships. Slow, Massive damage, Massive shielding, long cooldown

THe art style is cartoony in the similar vain of Guns of Icarus.

So far It is fun.

Sadly the game has died. But was quite fun While it lasted. Maybe someone can pick it up and continue development? But it definetly aint gonna be me.