Recent reviews by [CPCFF]Big_Adam

Me and two friends have been playing this, this has been our experiences so far.

The starting areas are bit too open and dull. We did a lot of sneaking until we learned that doesn't work great, but planning does.

We're a bit further into the main island now. Generally enjoying running about and shooting robots. We plan, we attack, we panic, repeat.

As a group we're having fun, but solo ... eh. The story is okay to good. The game does a lot of visual story telling, but there are a lot of notes too which hamper the flow a bit.

Still, I like it, pew pew robots.

As Mandalore asked, I shall do.

Long and short of it, its a good game. Don't come into it expecting Xcom, its not. Its very "Talking a lot of ♥♥♥♥ for someone in weapons range".

Very tweakable, very replayable, don't forget to play the hidden mission to unlock more stuff.

Its good, but man did I get bugs ... still keep playing though.

I had one settlement attacked by 7 space whales, 3 pirates, and 2 alien guys.

Then it looped me into a fight against another space whale that I could not escape. Then my Officer died, but not the ship, then I lost my precursor ship.

But I kept playing. 7/10

Single player;

Good story
Nice mechanics
Some fun as heck mechanics
Great world to play around in.

Online;
Welcome to GTA load...
LOADING
LOADING
LOADING
..ing simulator. Where it will hang when you try to join a mission for no reason.

So about 15hours in so far.

What I like;
Art style.
The big wide world to F' about in.
Mining is oddly satisfying.
Worlds all feel diffrent

What I don't like;
Lots of bugs (okay, pre-release. Expected. Nothing ruins the fun, just annoying things like bugged invantory)
Vehicles handle like poop.
There are enviromental hazards you can't really do much about bar "put it somewhere else"
Space is just "click to go there", wanted a big of space flight. Or a base.

What I'd like to see;
Something to move the hazards. A tractor beam. A Acme Disintegrator. A really solid sandwich. Something.
More stuff. I got resources out the bum already, and nothing to use them for.
Quicker / Easier way to move stuff from your invantory to a device. Maybe add "storage" to the air and power system so you have a central storage hub and the pipes move stuff for you.

So far, I give it a 6/10. Its good. Not great. I look forward for more, but until then I think I'm done.

I played for an hour, and requested a refund.

TLDR; There's not that many players. So you end up Vs. bots a lot. What players you do find are bristling with guns and smack you down in all of 3 second due to guns and being 20+levels on you.

Also I fell out of a map.

Full review;

As far as play, its akin to World of Tanks. Things are a bit floaty though due to the "build it however you want" as you can build your car/truck however you want. Want 2 wheels? Sure. Jet engines on a microbus, go for it!

I made maybe 5 diffrent cars in my hour or so. I added guns, removed them, had 2 wheels to see if it would work (it does), shotguns, etc.

Then you dump yourself into battle mode. Its either capture (single point) or base capture (you base, their base, more people on it the quicker you cap). Sadly, every game I was in was 70-90% bots. So it ends up either deathmatch, or you rock around to their base and cap as the AI cars just drive around.

I say give it more time. Currently ... its meh. Middle of the road. But thats only after an hour for me. Rather play with more people, shout at folks, get teamwork going. If you like WoT, you'll probablt enjoy this ... but WoT is free and this isn't.

Edit

Had to delete some of the more ... threatening replies.

It a good solid "walk-em-up" in the same vein as 'Dear Esther' or 'The Vanishing of Ethan Carter', beacuse of that there's not much past the main story between the two main charecters; Henry and Delilah.

The story is good, its solid, it makes a ton of sense in a world of bullplop stories. Its not long (I did about 4.5hours, as I tend to wonder about).

Don't expect big action, just a nice interaction between two people doing a fairly lonely job.

7/10

An intresting one, thats for sure.

I'd say not really a horror game. Spooky, creepy, but not horror. Got one scare out of it (jump scare from a chair of all things).

It is an intresting idea however. Very little story told to you, its just in the world in the form of a childs paintings/drawings and a few bits from your Teddy.

Get it cheap, its about 2-3hours depending on how slow you are. Still an intresting thing to play. Loved the walk at the end as a recap.

Really enjoyed this game. Trip isn't an annoying escort mission, she mostly looks after herself. Her and Monkey have a really nice relationship going. Platforming is mostly idiot proof, combat is fun and challenging at times,

But that ending.

Urg.

Great game let down by a bloody aweful ending.

Its not bad, good solid 6/10.

The controls are bit simple (either X or Y for everything on 360 pad), the story isn't too bad, the world of Neo-Paris is f'ing loverly.

My only real negative, the camera is WAY too close. You got this amazing world and Nil's just there in the middle of the bloody screen.

Still, I enjoyed it. Pick it up cheap in a sale, have your fun, and call it a day.