Recent reviews by alteredStateOfTheEast()

55 hours in, I am still in the starting area doing all the sidequests, faction quests and main quests. I have not touched or been to about 70% of the map. I can't recommend this game enough.

The good: Combat, stunning and beautiful world; it's not just vast but it's detailed, diverse and gorgeous. mechanics, things to do.
The bad: The story is terrible, the lore just seems to be pointless and makes me sad because I really want to embrace this world but there is just certain aspects that make me not believe. As of 3/29/26 the indoor lighting and nighttime lighting is atrocious.
The neutral: I wish NPCs were more "alive".

In the span of 10 days, they released two major updates that took care of what were the most egregious problems. Thats very impressive. I don't know what they have for the future of this game, but with more improvements this game could seriously do some damage to the industry because the standard is so high. The best way to describe it, is it's what AC games were supposed to be.

World: The map is breathtaking. It's not repeated and copy pasted assets that Assassins Creed games would be when they are copy and pasting assets across their games. The world is filled with rich forests and different biomes. What is really unique here that other games seem to be missing out on is the absolute vastness of this world. There is certain views and locations that just leave you breathless. I think if PA actually worked on the lore, story and NPC tech more it would do wonders for making us believe this world is real.

I am not sure the state of the game previously but I bought this game on 11/25. This is the closest to "Skate but Parkour" that you will ever get. I have tried now two other Parkour games and I have to say that this one just feels better compared to any of the other ones. highly recommend!

It's going to take years for Ubisoft to ever get full price out of me again after all they have done. However, this game did not include any of the special issues that pertained to 2015 - present. It runs fine, story is pretty good; I am not going to remember it.
for $20 or less, I can't complain. We are also getting a free DLC where we get to go to Saudi Arabia due to Saudi investments, and honestly, I'm pretty stoked.

I have completed the entire game and it was pretty good. This was a DLC expansion and nothing more than that. I do not believe that this has that much replayability but what can one ask for when talking about $20?.

I think everything about this is a wonderful extraction shooter. It looks like it has a bright future.
What I dont understand is why this was sold as something special by all these youtubers about this being different than all other extraction shooters. I dont get it, they're all the same copy but different variations of the same source: Tarkov. Which I don't even like. If you like this sort of stuff, this game seems excellent for that. However, as youtubers out of content are trying to sell it as some genre defying game; it is not.

I want this to work and I can't believe this legendary game has been released onto Steam.
However, this is broken right now. When I last played this I might have been able to take the time to go through the mods and fixes; when I was a child. I am a grown man with a career and responsibilities now. I paid for a product and received a product I cannot properly play.

Fix this Ubisoft, you could at least have it work with modern displays, including ultra wides. You could also have it not crash.

Edit: Their automated system looked for the word "crash" and did some goofy automated response. This game is by all means broken and they sold a broken game. It crashes, it doesn't work with today's hardware well and most importantly, it doesn't have a widescreen fix.

Right now this game is absolutely great and worth every penny.
However to make this perfect they need to:
Rework the night entirely, the night in DLB is useless to be in. There is nothing worthwhile to do and it's just way too dangerous and no where near enough reward.
Bring back the DL1 grapple hook. Current hook is made for the city of DL2 and frankly it makes things slow paced. We want it like it was in DL1.

I bought this awhile ago and enjoyed it but never got more into it due to life.
Heard they were going to take out a lot of content due to the console release. While this game is pretty good, but being a SWAT game is not some sort of moat that other game developers can't achieve. I will no longer support VOID Interactive for their grossly anti consumer practices.

Need optimization is my only complaint.
First time playing this game and it's great. Highly recommend if you never got to play this game

I would like to finish the game, but I cant because it keeps crashing.

I would say no.
Only becauase Elite Dangerous exists. While this game has interesting concepts and the need to take care of your truck is a cool feature. However, when you compare to Elite, this game is just lack luster.