Recent reviews by Larwood

Lots of fun quizzes, and the quiz constructor is very powerful and easy to use.

The roads/track layouts are generally a little better for racing on than in the main map, but that's not really saying much. That is where the good aspects of this DLC end.

The scenery is uninspired, just more of the same from the main map.

Every race is driven with the unrelenting drone of a helicopter that follows you everywhere.

As a rally game it is hopeless, there's no cohesive rally to be raced, just a bunch of one-off stages to drive. The pace notes are utterly worthless; extremely simplistic, sometimes completely wrong, and usually given to you far to late for you to make any use of them.

Simple concept, terrible execution. The simplicity of the game that is a benefit when you're first picking it up quickly becomes a detriment.

Cards and locations often do not do exactly what they say on them, and the only way to learn the peculiarities of many mechanics is to play forever until you get tricked by all of them, or spend your time reading third party websites, because not a single one of them is explained in game.

The lack of card draw control means you are almost completely reliant on the RNG of the draws you get.

Many games play out like simple rock paper scissors, one player has a card that perfectly counters the other's strategy, so they win by default. Similarly many locations decide the match because they suit one player's deck type.

Despite all that the worst part of the game is the UI. Visually it is a complete mess with all different menus and sub-menus all over the place. The game throws endless blinking red notification dots at you, most of which you'll never care about, many of which you've seen before, and some of which are just bugged and there's actually nothing there for you to look at. Even simple things like clicking the end turn button sometimes does not work.

Monetisation is pretty awful as well. Complexity wise it is the absolute worst, the game somehow managed to squeeze in eight different currencies, the combined purpose of which seems to be to make it difficult to work how what is the most efficient way to earn rewards. Pay-to-win wise it's not quite the worst I've seen, if you play a decent amount you will definitely have enough cards to make some competitive decks. But no matter how much you play you'll never be able to earn all the cards you want, without buying at least the $15/month premium season pass.

There are much better games than this, don't waste your time.

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It's better than XIII in most ways, and I liked that game. But this is only a weak recommend because you have to spend a few hours following the guide to patch the game's many bugs, once you do that it runs well.

Compared to FH4 it has a bigger map, some visual improvements and a couple of new features, but some other features are removed and the same old questionable servers remain.

The best autobattler.

If you like brakes that take a year to apply or release, and long distance shunting scenarios performed almost exclusively at 25 mph, this is the route for you.

Ever wish they just made a good sequel after Sonic 3? This is that.

If you want to build a constructed deck, this game is cheaper than any other digital card game. If you don't want to build a deck and you just want to draft, it is *completely* free once you own the game. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.

Draft is the premier game mode for Artifact, it's a lot of fun, it's what most people are playing. Can recommend.