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game is unplayable without already having a three man stack, solo is unbalanced, there is no duo mode, and no gaurantees that you will even get a three man game to run through match making. overall huge failure for FromSoftware. They should have known better to put out a turd and say they would polish it up.

A masterpiece, a breathe of fresh air in stale play settings. Multiple endings, beautiful graphics, the only thing making this game a 4/5 is the controls. Trust me, the twist is amazing.

A fun game, returning halo players beware; it is still addicting but does not play like the halo you remember, it still has merit though.

This game is the Game of 2020

3-10 people are needed to play this game and if you bring your own friends it is even better.
Everyone is a suspect as to who killed the crew mate(s) and its your job to prove your innocence or damn another.
This game has a learning curve, but once you figure out all the bells and whistles, it is easy to get caught up as the killer and very easy to slip up as a witness. Happy hunting and best of luck finding the impostor.

This game though aged is one of the most exciting spy games I have played in the last twenty years. Yes the dialogue may not be the best acted or best written, but the story is definitely unique. The gameplay may seem stiff seeing as its third person over the shoulder, but the skill tree setup is what makes this game shine. Wanna be a special agent, well pick it as a starting class and it effects the dialogue, wanna play the stiff soldier well then do it, wanna be a ladies man and get all the abroad ladies? do it. This game gives you all the options from go in guns blazing, to stealthy covert ops. The only problem with this game is that the copy rights on the music have expired so they can no longer sell the base game. =( if you find a way to play this game, you definitely won't regret it.

I wasn't ready for the grotesque horrors this game offers, I love horror movies, I love the occult and one of my favorite stories is the Divine Comedy. No one expects hell to be a walk in the park and this game lands you a ticket into oblivion, I expected hellfire, brimstone and demons. What i didn't expect was npc's being tortured, npc's feeding infants their own excrement that they collect from the source with their bare hands, I also didn't expect the vast amounts of nudity that Agony would have and trust me none of it is very nice to look at.

Past my hang ups Ahem, the game play is quite simple, Survive through hell, avoid demons and succubi and solve the puzzles to freedom. For the player looking for replay value, if you could stomach it, this game has multiple endings and multiple stories that can unfold, It's up to you to pick your path through hell.

If your looking for fast paced gameplay this might not be it, if your looking for a horror survival in the most unforgivable of settings this is it, but the game is pretty much a walking simulator through a Crowley wet dream.

This is just a port of the playstation 2 or original xbox with all its terrible frame rates, model collision and bad camera angles. It's definitely worth a play if you can find it on sale, but to pay twenty dollars for a game that can be speed runned in 45 minutes or even 3 hours just casually moving through the game seems hard... different weapons allow multiple play throughs i guess. To find a challenge in the game, i played through the game with a emulator, before this was released and played with the normal sword, even then it took six hours, which included the last boss taking 45 minutes alone. So yes this game is decent, but it has nothing about it that truly shines.

Flappy bird meets Limbo.

Be prepared to keep the what ever you are, thing with wings i guess alive through ever increasing difficult levels. Towards the end of day one I noticed it wasn't exactly that the level was difficult more along the facts that because the level design barely has a back drop, you can't see the level making the game a rinse and repeat frustrating marathon.
1/5 will not be playing again and i feel that i wasted way too much time.

This game is a fun game, lots of strategy, lots of different goals. Where this game falls flat on it's back is the Player to company relationship and teamwork. If you want to play a game where you can be one of the best players in the game, but have someone who just figured out how to turn on their pc and lose the game for you, this game is for you.

The Ranked mode in this game is a joke seeing as there really isn't a skill based ranking system, but more of a how many wins do you have compared to losses. Everyone starts off at 3k mmr, so if you get 3 games in a row of bad players be preparded to be plunged into the nothingness of players who don't know how to play or players that don't even speak your same language.

Not to throw the blame on Valve completely, the player base in this game is toxic to the point of being arsenic. If you do something wrong, be prepared to hear about it for the next 30 minutes about how it is your fault for why the sun rose and gave them a sun burn. If you are like me and hate the toxicity, Valves only answer to this is to mute the player IN A TEAM BASED STRATEGY MOBA. If you leave the game early due to being harassed, you will be punished for it, by being plunged into Low priority settings which means you can only play one game type, your games will take five to ten minutes to search for and the games don't even count in your favor as if Valve is punishing you for getting out of a abusive relationship.

For players who are looking for a competitive scene of game play this is definitely it, but be prepared for the abuse of the player community as well as the games abuse itself for its reporting system which can be tampered with if you join into a four stack and have everyone against you.

For the players that do want to give this game a shot, I would find friends who will fill in the gaps or prepare to have a game of no communication or abuse.