Recent reviews by Xeno

Bullsh*t, previous Hand Simulator games at least worked once you got the hang of it. This one though, you can't even squeeze the trigger ! It doesn't help that your gun will easily fly out of your hand as well...
It's very artificially made difficult by making it unresponsive !

I haven't played COD since the original MW2 and boy was warzone different....
The main menu feels like some social media website rather than a video game with all the visual overload...
It says the game is "Free" but I had to aimlessly browse around the main menu until I finally found something I could actually play for free....
When I finally got through all the BS cr*p the game throws at you before you can even start a round I couldn't even run the game smoothly...apparently you need some crazy expensive computer or something whatever

I will not play this and I regret giving COD another chance by playing this

Pros:
+mutliplayer.
+good UI.

Cons:
-unbalanced: very little time to collect scarce resources across the island + sprinting limited with tiny stamina + taking damage from invisible threats + you need to start a fire at night but the fire dies off too quickly and you freeze to death + bees spawn out of the blue and attack you.
-lack of intuition: twigs are good for starting a fire but wood planks from trees are useless + some trees can be harvested for wood others can't.
-bad situational awareness: must be crouched and staring at the ground to pick up objects making you vulnerable to attacks from other players.
-very poor camera angles: camera will get fixed on tracking your hand sometimes making it very hard to know what you are doing.
-dead community: very few players and most of them will kill each other.
-very little time to prepare for the night !
-lack of options: can not customize your lobby, can not modify resources scarcity or time of day or anything of the likes.
-piss poor animations for the animal models.
-low variety of foods, items and activities.
-have been spawned in a location with no resources at all !
-can not throw items.
-can not text chat.
-no explanation how to signal the cruiser that comes near the island.
-very bad physics: items will fly off or glitch out of the map + enemies will glitch out of the map just to appear again out of the blue and kill you.

Verdict:
Avoid this steaming garbage, definitely must be free as it's not worth any price tag.

EDIT:
worst game I have ever played in my entire life.

The first couple of round felt like a bad b-grade experience, but once I played a bit more it made more sense.
On the technical side the game lacks content: there is only one map, 4 characters, 3 monster abilities and a few survivor abilities. After a couple hours in you'll have seen it all basically.
As for graphics and sound design they're pretty good. However, the animations are not that great and sometimes can feel stiff. A very far fetch from the smooth death animations in Alien Isolation.

Definately necessary for a complete experience !

I have just finished this game and I feel like I have just watched one great memorable movie set in a dark, cold post-apocalyptic world. Very engaging story, you will feel like you're in Artyom's shoes as it progresses !
The graphics are just amazing, astonishing and eye-catching. Specially in large landscape shots. The gameplay is immersive as you'll get thrown in different environments along the way that make you feel like you are living in the metro with those people. Diverse weapons, deceptive and deadly foes, it's just the deadly post-apocalyptic mix I always wanted !
Also, I am in love with this game's music, it just blows me out of the water !
To put it consicely, Metro 2033 is THE post-apocalyptic story I have always wanted to "read" or in this case play. It might suffer from a few technical issues on both the audio and AI's (too hard sometimes) sides. However, the overall experiences just absolutely compensates for that.
Metro 2033 is now officially one of my all-time favorite titles !

Comes a bit expensive in terms of individual plane prices, however that is very compensated for through the realistic feel you get. This game stands to it's name. It is the closest you'll get to a jet sitting in front of your PC. All you need is patience, learning how to drive the jets first is essential before taking on the multiplayer and that requires SOME reading and tutorial-watching. So take it easy and the game will be as awesome as it should for you.

This game is spectacularly fun ! Sure it is a bit undercooked when it comes to technical features such as graphic settings and the cursed unskippable loud intros, but that's all well compensated for with the stability of the multiplayer gameplay ! I finished this game with my best friend and guess what: We had a blast !
The game barely lags, and the whole multiplayer system is clever- no need for a centralized host -making lag nearly absent, and rendering the whole setup phase very simple with the lobby concept.
Borderlands offers a very interactive experience, the more you achieve in it the more challenges the game will offer. I think if I want to summerize the whole experience, I'd say it's very dynamic towards the player(s). However, just to warn you: This game is infected with the DLC virus !
So overall, either you're diving solo or with company in the vault hunt, I can guarantee that as long as you can overlook some technical flaws and occasional glitching and be patient about solving them, you can have a kick out of this game. As for the multiplayer: The more the merrier !

WARNING:
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES !
I have never hated a game as much as I did this one. Terrible friendly AI, sadisticly overpowered enemy AI, incapacitating lack of instructions and tutorials, terrible HUD, worst weapon accuracy in the FPS genre, Terrible story developement, Very Badly designed visuals, even for its date of release's standards, Immense Lack of coherence, No Order in the developement of events, Horrible programming work seen the colossal amount of bugs and glitches.
Overall Decision:
Terrible game, a very bad attempt at achieving a simulation of an exagerated realistic post-apocalyptic radioactive world. I believe this game was made by a bunch of sick ill sadistic people who barely know the basics of creating video games and entertainment. Top it all with the fact that there aren't much mods around to make this "game" into an enjoyable one. All in all, it was on sales, I wanted to get a new game...Bad decision

Really good game ! It simply lacks a fanbase and a few more players. Graphically, it's well designed, not highly detailed but suitable for the majority of Personal Computers. When it comes to audio, the sounds are very pleasing to the ear, everything from the footsteps noise to the big explosions is well done, a little bit more work on the characters' voices might've been better, but still it is not a deal breaker. Finally, the gameplay is very neat, and the experience is in its own way unique. Moreover, the Real time strategy and the First person perspectives and game styles are quite harmonious consequently leading to a better overall experience.
All in all, Nuclear Dawn is a fun experience to be had, specially with friends.