Ready or Not is a masterpiece in environmental storytelling, atmosphere, brutally realistic combat, tactical commanding and by no doubt is one of the most realistic depictions of the horror of living in this modern age in any piece of media I have seen. It's a understatement to call Ready or Not a game!


Ah! Good morning rookies, I am here to tell you all about how to survive as a new member of the LSPD SWAT force, in this hellhole of a city!

In the singleplayer gamemodes you play as David "Judge" Beaumont, the LSPD SWAT commander of D Platoon. You are tasked with bringing order to chaos in high intensity situations.

Since early access Ready or Not has seen a ton of improvements, one notable one is the upgrading to the current graphics set. The graphics are so good that in the right conditions it can look almost identical to real life, even though I am not running the run of the mill, top line gaming PC. So it's great that the developers have been able to make the graphics this good, while also making sure it's optimised for all sorts of PCs! Unfortunately some maps have glitched graphics in some areas even to this day, thanks to the upgrade to Unreal Engine 5. Namely the cave section at the end of the mission Rust Belt. But overall the Unreal Engine upgrade has been beneficial for the graphics though! Ready or not is definitely one of the most real life looking games I have ever played, and I have played a ton of games in my time, so that is saying a lot about how good the graphics of Ready or Not truly is!

After early access there have been a lot of new levels that have been added and also improved. All the levels in Ready or Not, including the DLC levels all have great storytelling that sets the tone of the decaying state that Los Sueños is in, the lore of one level leads into another, which is cool to see unfold in the campaign gamemode. On many levels there are voice recorders you can find around the level and play, you can play them by using the interact key. The voice recorders are key items that reveal a lot to the lore but sometimes just set how characters are feeling. After each level and depending on what rank you got(S being the highest), once you get back the the LSPD HQ you can go into the Evidence room and find all these interactive evidence boxes that build the lore of each level, you can find some very nearly stuff including finding out that Judge is possibly a sleeper agent and that the USIA agents you arrest in previous levels actually knew about you and made you become a SWAT commander in order to make the LSPD do the bidding of the USIA/Shadow government . The levels are all fun to play each rising in difficulty as you progress, you go from dealing with lowlife gangsters, crackheads, drug dealers, school shooters, and crazies to full blown terrorists, crazy feminist cultists, the Russian mob, the Cartel, eco-terrorists, to even USIA(In game CIA) government agents and militias. So yeah, lots of different individuals to deal with and bring order to chaos.

Also something that is very cool is how the hub level(LSPD HQ) changes after every level you complete in the campaign, for instance every time you complete a level you can see usually see the main suspects or characters(It doesn't matter if you killed them or not I think) from the level you just finished in the holding cell, most main ones stay there throughout all or most of the campaign. You can find out why, because if you read the computer on a desk in the holding cell room that a fellow officer is sitting at, you can read the monitor and you can see that he's writing a email about how the LSPD station has a overflowing of the holding cells problem and that they need new spaces for processing suspects, so that's neat! Also after you finish a level you can also find civilians from the former level being interrogated about what happened, you can also find different and new NPCs in different areas, you can also see new rooms opening and construction finishing, some NPCs can actually talk to you too, mostly just the Doc in the Briefing room and Quartermaster Micheals in the Armoury. Sometimes Chief Alvarez might say something in the Chief of Police room or a detective in the Detective Bureau or some random cop you find around the level. Might I also add how I love how different rooms have names that show up on your hud? I like this feature because it makes you feel like your supposed to look around n' stuff! Another very cool feature has to do with the 9-1-1 Dispatch room and how before and after every level, you can see the news talking about the level your going on next or what happened at level you just finished, on the big monitors in the room, very nice!! I have never seen most of these features in a video before or at least very rarely, so it's very immersive to see! Ready or Not is definitely one of the most immersive games I have ever played thanks to it's immersive environmental storytelling!

The soundtrack for Ready or Not is some of the best, as it sets the tone greatly for the depressing and gritty mood this game masterpiece of media is portraying. As much as I love some good ol' metal music, it just does not fit for most of what this game is portraying, the sombre music is here to be serious and I am not saying rock or metal isn't but you don't need it for every game all the time. Just sit in the main menu screen and just listen for like 10 minutes, you'll see what I mean! There are also tracks made for each level that also set the tone for that individual level, there will be ominous music as you first arrive on scene, there is hectic combat music for hot lead going by your head, and there will be horror movie esque background music playing as you uncover the absolute evil of what man can do. All in all the Ready or Not soundtrack adds quite greatly to the whole games media's experience.


You should really buy this beautiful game piece of media and its beautiful DLCs and if you want the beautiful soundtrack too, to support the devs!!!!(But I completely understand if you can't because of the cost don't worry!) VOID Interactive is one of the last remaining western developers I have seen that are actually very passionate about the game they are working on. VOID makes it the way they want, not how some scummy publisher wants it that doesn't care one bit about how good the game can or will be.

In summary VOID is one of the last western developers that are making a great, meaningful, and fun game instead of a micro transaction, political statement, woke, DEI filled slop game made for pushing agendas and checking off lists.

Thank you so much Void for delivering(Death Stranding reference?) such a masterpiece of a game that is super fun to play, that's realistic and that showcases how mental heath and the elite are destroying the world we live in, thank you to the end! <3

This is by far not everything I like, found or that what makes this game so great, so I'll be trying my best to keep this review up to date and to change and add to it when I feel like it!
Thank you all for reading(YOU BETTER HAVE OR ELSE!!) this school assignment ass review lol!! Have a great day and take care!