Recent reviews by Graag

The little dudes with horns are a bit annoying in hordes. Otherwise solid 4/5. I recommend for FPS fans.

One of the finest RPG's ever.

Like:
- Shooting mechanics
- Sounds and music
- visual quality
- Works really well. I haven't encountered many bugs.
- The world keeps updating

Don't care about:
- The story.

In short: Do I recommend this game? No. Unless you have beaten your other shooters and get this for like 10€.

I finished this game on second hardes difficulty. Battles were challenging, the sneaking was not. You might have a different experience at lower difficulty.

Killing em all:
Shooting mechanics are working as expected, but I would say most of the weapons are largely useless. Biggest disappointment is the shotgun which is a gutless peashooter that sometimes dont kill a soldier at close range even with three shots. It is slightly better if dual yielding and shooting both weapons at same time.

Pistol is the second best weapon. You can shoot it while sneaking and the enemies don't notice you. It's also very accurate and because you always go for headshots, it feels more powerful than the shotgun. It certainly is more effective.

After you get the assault rifle, the submachine gun becomes useless. It is simply too inaccurate to hit anything.

Assault riffle is clearly the best weapon of the game. It is useful at start, but it really starts to shine as you upgrade it with the scope. Scope itself is not useful, but using it makes the hipfire very accurate and you can fire it pretty much as fast as you can keep klicking LMB.

The diesel laucher thingy is good agains the heavier enemies. I feel it is the third best weapon.

I used the grenade/rocket lauching pistol only on few occasions. Because of its area effect explosions, it was useful when fighting group regular troops on close spaces. I really used it only a little. Most of the proper fighting I did with the assault riffle.

Axe. It's like Gordon Freemans crowbar but it kills nazis from 10 meters away.


Straight line labyrinth
The gunplay mechanics saved this game for me. Without them I would not have finished it. Mostly this is due to level design. There are some exeptional bright spots, but mostly they are boring grey tunnels. Most of the story is spent in difficultly traversed remains of ruins of American cities. You are walking a tunnel with one entrance and one exit, but you still manage to get lost and confused with no idea where you are supposed to go.


Stupid
I had read reviews before starting my playtrough. I knew the story will be a poor one. But it's not all bad, there are good moments and depth I did not expect. But as a whole it fails. It tries to be too many things without properly tying it all together. It tells a tale of resistance and persistence, then explores cruelty, and finally tries to be a comedy. I understand what they are trying to do with all this, but it just falls short.

Story also has moments which are there just for shock value. They are not important to the story in any way. I think they are there just to get the headlines and increased sales. Or maybe i'm just too old for this ♥♥♥♥.

Variety needed in the multiplayer servers. They are mostly just Nordschleife and GT3. Otherwise it is a good simulator. Recommended.

I do think that many would enjoy this game. And to some extent I did enjoy it myself. But it functions too poorly for me to recommend. FPS with two-way SLI GTX970 is around 40. Even without VSYNC there is terrible mouse lag. Towards the end of the game it randomly started to freeze for 15s at a time for no reason at all. The game crashed once. And once there was a bug which prevented me to advance on the story which was fixed by restarting the game.

For these reasons I cannot recommend the game.

So far I have been raiding the tombs for 10 hours and I have been liking it. At least for so far the challenge on survivor difficulty has been just right. The enemies are challenging and the shooting mechanics and weapons have been designed in a way that you actually have to properly aim.

I won't say much about the story here except that I find it intriguing and it is a large part of what keeps me getting back in to the game.

Graphically I would give this game full points and aestethically a just a notch less.

Solid first person shooter. It is very much a linear game which I have nothing against. On the second hardest difficulty the enemies are tough and do hurt you if you are not careful. Humans are laughably easy later on the game and offer no challenge at all. For me sneaking was the way to go. Sometimes I got bored and didn't kill enemies at all and just sneaked trough the levels. The shooting mechanics are basic, nothing wrong in them.

Game had multiple assault rifles available. I think the first one you get was the best one. You get silencer, red dot sight and singleshot firing mode later on. That was my main weapon of choise. Second slot I filled with sniper-rifle, LMG or shotgun as I saw fit for the map. There were some special weapons also but I usually found no use for them. Gauss-rifle would have been nice to carry around but you get it so late in the game that there is little use for it.

I didn't care about the plot that much. I found it stupid, a bit silly, full of cliches and offered no surprices for me.

Visually the game looks very good. Especially when you think it is already five years old when I write this.

I did not run into any serious bugs. I think it crashed on alt-tab couple of times, but that was partly my fault.

I would not recommend anyone to pay 20€ for it, but if you get it on a sale certainly. If you like FPS-games, go for it.

This old fashioned dungeon crawler kept me engaged for dozens of hours. I had not played this kind of game before and was positively suprised of how entertaining the simplistic combat mechanics and exploration were. I had some thoughts on what I might find at the end. But I have to say I had no idea.

Nice little bioshock experience. I played it on hard which for me was just the right amount on challenge.