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A failure so immense it closed half the studio and a 20 year old franchise. The game is at best half baked with no style to call its own besides an attempt at modern minimalism. After escaping the clunky menus you are greeted with dreary racing and brainless CPU opponents. I don’t know why you’d even attempt online racing. Go play GT, iRacing, or the hundreds of fun arcade racers from the past.

Sun's up, another day goes by
Look at, the time fly
Keep up, the different air gives us that
Feeling of being alive

"Meh" is all I can say, it's fun for the first couple hours but it doesn't really give you much reason to come back to it. The triggers and boons builds you get have obvious synergies at first but lack depth to get you to try more. When I was having a good run where I had a fun build with high scoring triggers in good positions it ends early due to beating it, with no infinite mode to keep on playing until you lose. The other modes didn't particularly interest me either, and the pinball one felt frustrating to control the paddles and how the physics interact with it. A pachinko roguelike is a good idea, which is why it feels fun initially, but it doesn't exactly land a lot of fun aspects to keep me playing. I don't think the audio design is great either, it isn't satisfying "bonking" into triggers. I'd give it a 4/10.

Little improvement has been made in the last 6 months since launch and now new versions are being released. If you're a sucker who bought the deluxe edition you are already behind on "DLC." Just keep playing Civ 6 until this game is finished in 2028.

I feel like it's 2005 again, I put the disc into my PS2 and I play for hours. The best arcade racer to release in years, perfect on the Steam Deck.

One of the best easy roguelike games, no need to commit to long runs like other roguelikes but easy to get sucked into one because you want to.

Really fun game, I found that the visuals of the cute animals beating the hell out of one another to make me laugh instead of getting too upset if I get drop kicked and get knocked out as a result. Although, when you get knocked out you can still throw objects at the animals to participate which can prove to be very effective at times. Re-queueing is simple too, only one button press so it's easy to just keep playing.

Works great day one on Steam Deck

Amazing gameplay and fun weapons to use, campaign was a decent 7/10 experience.

Multiplayer is still in beta.

Hitman 3 and the World of Assassination trilogy is a modern masterpiece, a great game in an amazing trilogy, and the centerpiece of any PC gaming library. If you're wondering what happened to fun in modern games, you haven't tried Hitman. There's 20+ distinct maps/locations in this trilogy alone, and each one is complete sandboxes ready for whatever situation and way you to want to play/assassinate your targets.

The new Freelancer game mode released in January 2023 brings this game to another level. The safehouse from Blood Money is back and fitted right into the new Hitman. Freelancer is everything I could ask for on it's launch. An expansive safehouse with many levels and items to EARN overtime. Every item is earned in gameplay and feels very refreshing in the modern age of pay to succeed (Certain DLC weapon packs/ house cosmetic packs exist, but are just cosmetic). Each mission feels tactical, like you're planning each trip of your campaign, picking the destination and equipment in your house and then starting your mission. The gameplay loop really works well and leaves me wanting to complete more and more campaigns (roughly two hours long each). Of course, this is all without bringing up hardcore mode, which I've yet to truly experience.

Overall, I can't recommend this trilogy enough. A real gem of the modern era of gaming. Only negative is the online connectivity. Works well with controller, best played on mouse and keyboard.

9.5/10