Recent reviews by ICLASSACTI

Did not age well.

A sad cash grab game that is a shell of the Halo we all knew and loved. At some points there are four options to click for their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ battle pass. A predatory monetization method that I 100% do not agree with. I have nothing against selling cosmetics, especially in a f2p game, but do it honestly. New skin? Sure, price it in the shop and go on. There should never be an instance where you buy content, only to be denied said content until you put in real life time, or more money to unlock it. It's underhanded, greedy, and will erode player confidence just like EA.

Multiplayer seems good at first, until you realize what is happening. MMR based matches in casual is poor design. If you want an MMR based experience, just make everything ranked. Why change the formula that has worked for two decades? Casual game play should be just that, not a sweat lobby every match.

Aim assist for controllers is ludicrous to say the very least. Why punish KB/M players for playing on what has been a supported input since CE? There is no world where I should lose a fight to someone because they are being coddled by auto aim. If I was on Xbox then I wouldn't have a complaint, everyone would have the same advantage, but on a game that is PC as well, there needs to be a level playing field. Either disable the auto hand holding for online play, or make it to where you can filter out controller players and vise versa. I've heard the argument of controller needing it to keep up with KB/M...I don't buy it. If you use a controller on a PC, that should just be the breaks. Losing a gunfight not because they are better, but because they had help might be the worst feeling in this game.

Aimbots and other hacks have already started to show up in no small number. You knew this was going to happen. Why after years...YEARS since Halo 5 have you done little to nothing to combat this?

Grenades should be meaningful and not just the spam fest they are. The fact that everyone gets two makes every lobby just an explosion fest. Start us out with zer0 grenades, with spawns on the map just like they are now. Make them non interchangeable {Frags/Plasma/Brute all feel the same} with the exception of the electric ones that are just better.

Weapons that aren't Earth weapons feel clunky or have little to no identity. Why change the plasma rifle to wtf ever that Carbine is supposed to be? It feels clunky, and just bad. Shock rifle is just a worse sniper with the ability to stall vehicles. Why change that from the plasma pistol and not give it any compensation? You're better off charging people than using the Ravager, the Mauler is a worse pistol than the default, same for Disruptor.

Speaking of weapons feeling bad, people are now only using pistols. The AR needs to be useful, not just what you throw on the ground when you find a BR. If I'm shooting someone with the AR, they should in no world be able to take down my shield faster with the Sidekick, however TTK is just outright better in pretty much every aspect with the pistol as opposed to the AR. While I'm thinking about it, Commando should have a better TTK than the pistol as well, but doesn't. It takes 7 shots to down someone with the Commando, by shot 4 you're dead if your enemy can aim at all.

There are a few weapons that do feel good, however they feel so much better I can't tell if they are oppressive, or if everything else just sucks. BR feels good, Hammer feels OP with the range it has, Sword feels OP due to the grapple. On that note, the grapple feels way, way too strong. No other equipment save for the rare Overshield/Camo that sometimes shows up even compares to the utility of this thing.

There needs to be more options to play. Get forge rights or better yet make your own, better version. This should have been done on release, but instead of fleshing it out and making a truly complete game, they shipped this half done MTX generator out and might get around to it if they have time after counting their money.

My final gripe is that in a shooter, it feels more often than not you need faster melee skills than better aiming. I get it, it's Halo, melee has always been a thing. But lately it's just people RUNNING at you with their weapon in hopes of getting their melee in. Melee should be a secondary strategy, not your first option.

Now for the good things. Vehicles feel pretty decent, save for the part where you get grapplejacked every 3 seconds. Gungoose is a nice little addition as well. Maps for the most part feel pretty decent. You can tell they have very defined paths you want to take, but they are big enough to just kinda go and do your own thing if you want.

Game has potential but fails in many big aspects. Feels like weapon skill is second to portals in a shooter. Controller aim support makes aiming unnecessary. Maps are huge and devolve into people camping in spawn through portals. Grenades don't do damage, like seriously? Devs must love campers or be smoking something pretty amazing to have that thought. Give people tools to punish bs like that.

After 633 hours, I finally managed to become back my money.

One of, if not the best Sonic game in the series. My personal favorite along with Sonic 3 on Genesis. Have put in countless hours on this game and 100%'d it on almost every platform it has been launched on. You might need to install Windows Visual C++ to launch for the first time on Steam. Game play feels good even in 2021. There are of course a few bugs here and there but overall an amazing game. Easily one of my top 10 games of all time. It goes on sale often. If you want nostalgia and well built maps, pick it up.

I wanted to love BL3 as much as BL2 but it just doesn't have the same feel. It feels like it took everything good from 2, made it ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and just shipped it. The enemies are one dimensional, the maps feel cluttered, and the classes feel overall worse. The fact that they are pumping out a second pass and trying to milk money out of people that bought the deluxe edition at launch is laughable. They try too hard to meme, which just turns the entire storyline into wannabe cringe comedy. If you like BL1 & BL2, do yourself a huge favor and just pretend they never made this third turd. It's so bad that the next time you launch 1 or 2, you'll just sit there and think "Wow this has lost some of it's epic-ness, simply for being related to that train wreck BL3."

Played for 34 minutes. Multiple bugs, unstable port and Steam refuses a refund. Absolutely worthless company now days.

An overall fantastic game. The storyline is a bit shorter than BioShock 1, and critics will say it isn't nearly as good. I tend to disagree. I loved BioShock 2. I've replayed this game multiple times on Xbox and just like the first one, it is in depth and just an overall great game. There are some things it misses the mark on, and my biggest gripe is the length of the game. They needed to expand the main story and slow down progression. You'll be able to finish this one much faster than BioShock 1, but it is still a very solid play. I would rate it 8/10. Definitely give it a try if you can catch it on sale.

One of the best solo games of all time. Please don't let my time played fool you. I've played through this game several times covering hundreds of hours of entertainment on the Xbox. Graphics and a storyline that stands up to the test of time. If you like shooters and immersive gameplay this is the game for you. 10/10. Now, would you kindly install this game, and experience one of the greatest masterpieces in gaming?

I loved BioShock one and two. They are classic games both with fantastic story and graphics. Even in 2020 they stand up to the test of time. I've played through both over the years roughly 7 times...they are that good people.

This game however, it isn't BioShock. This game is as far from the first two as you can get, while just stapling the name onto it. The storyline is mediocre at the best of times, outright ♥♥♥♥ on average. By around hour 3 I stopped exploring the side areas fully, simply popping in to grab what upgrades there are and moving on. The gameplay also has a lot to be desired. Planning out how to take a Big Daddy down? Nah, rather just bullet sponge your way through it. Big Daddy and little sisters aren't even in this one lol. Carefully deciding to take that plasmid upgrade now, or later when it is slightly less, saving precious ADAM? Nah, instead we have watered down powers swappable at any time with upgrades costing money which is easy enough to farm. Trying to decide which two powers to use for this level? Nah, instead just pick them on the fly killing any strategy needed. Tough part you can't get through? Just run through everything with the shield power up and be invincible with infinite ammo. An ending that felt like they were trying to be inception, with less plot. If you love shooters, give BioShock 1 & 2 a try, they are fantastic. Forget this burning trash pile of a game.