Recent reviews by Phantom_Wolf

nO wOrRiEs TrY aGaIn AnN

Please, no

This is an asset grab game.
I even recognized the enemy soldier model along with most of the guns from Game Of The Year 420 Blaze It.

Even on lowest settings there's motion blur and glare that gives extremely over-exaggerated looks and lags my PC.

Even for 2 dollars, it's more of a frustration than a relaxing experience...

Not as good as I expected, but it's okay pretty much.

It was much shorter and slower than I expected, but there were still a lot of fun.

I bought this game because I liked photography. While I can't say for sure why it was named 35MM, 35mm is popular focal length especially for street photographers. The film camera in game seems to have a 35mm focal length lens, as evident by how wide the pictures are.

Lots of things the game doesn't tell you how to do, such as you're hungry when your screen flashes and that hunger and health is pretty much the same (Because you can use food or a FAK). Also doesn't tell you why your screen flashes and I had to find out by searching.

Quite difficulty without walkthrough, lots of places have objectives that are not very obvious. Maybe this can take your time.

Has trading cards if you like that, and also has achievements which don't seem too hard.

Lots of work has been put into giving a very cinematic feel. It's kind of like Life Is Strange's kind of cutscenes. Lots of selective focus and flare. Graphics otherwise seem good but may look less pleasing up close.

Performance friendly-ish, I did crash a few times and I didn't turn SSAO and motion blur on, but that's about it.

Pretty good story. Not very much re-playability I suppose.



Now, because I like photography, let's review the camera!



Can't use viewfinder.
When you take a picture you cannot preview the composition, your field of view is tighter than the 35mm lens.
No manual focus or even aperture control.
Seemingly 1/infinity shutter speed, but probably because I have motion blur off.
ISO 100 apparently but it's ok, the in-game HDR feature in the options menu makes the picture look very nice anyway.
Not so strong flare resistance, in fact in some shots it's more flare-ish than player view.
When hungry/injured, your pictures get the screen effect too (What the hell?).
And probably the worst issue; THE SHUTTER LAG IS INSANE! The player takes like a second to move his finger to press the shutter release.
Despite being a film camera it has seemingly infinite film though so that's nice.

Edit: Also seems to be f/8 or something, very wide depth of field.



Overall not a very photographer's game as I expected but it's a nice game after all.

Very fine rotor-wing realism.

I'm a skilled when it comes to flying helicopters from Arma 2 and Arma 3, the game developer's 2 other very famous games. I thought i'd be good at this one too, turns out i was wrong.

RotorLib everybody, realistic realism.

I'd recommend you get some flight gear, such as VR goggles and a flight stick.

Otherwise, thanks to it's great graphics, you can actually play Arma 2 and Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead missions on this game when merged, this makes the game pretty much the same but much more graphically realistic.

Pros:
- Realistically hard to fly.
- Good graphical quality.
- Ability to merge with A2 and A2OA, providing a more graphically enhanced platform for the games.
- It's realistic?

Cons:
- Realistically hard to fly, no really, maybe you really should at least get a cyclic stick or throttle.
- With good graphics comes good hardware requirements.

It is THE military simulator!
Or something like it anyway.

It ain't a COD FPS, no not even a Battlefield so much action game, even better, or worse.
Many features such as weapon attachments, underwater ops, oh did i mention aviation?

Pros:
- Very very tactical, maybe too tactical.
- Open world, limited to whatever people can figure out.
- So many possible missions, you just need to find them.
- So much mods, so many many mods, in fact maybe too many.
- Often medium to long range realistic combat which is usually really hard to hit enemies.
- Many features since first game release, such as shooting from vehicles and Virtual Reality.
- Realistic graphics, limited to your hardware or your nerves for lag.
- Many more?

Cons:
- Too tactical? Yep. Sometimes enemy AIs are a step ahead of you.
- With big content and graphics, comes great hardware requirements.
- Modifications that may be too big to download.

Good fun for whatever you wanna do.
Physics, what more can you ask?

Pros:
- Laws of physics that can be broke.
- Broken laws of physics?
- Sandbox, so you can do anything you possibly can do... Or software and hardware limitations anyway...
- Ability for variable game play.
- Many downloadable content.

Cons:
- Maybe you get bored sometimes when you don't know what to do.

Eh, thought it would be an FPS, looks like i was wrong.

Pros:
- I don't know, i don't play it much, maybe it's an open world game or something, i don't know.

Cons:
- Graphics...
- Yep, it's not an FPS.

Overall a very nice game for people with knowledge on firearms and skills on using the mouse.
No really, this game really requires tactical skills on a mouse.

I'm serious.

Pros:
- Various guns, gun parts and pretty much how to break them down and repair 'em.
- Perfect quality, every part is modeled and textured, or at least that's how i see it so far.

Cons:
- Eh, might be annoying sometimes when you're trying to get Sniper achievement.
- Quite hard to get XPs to unlock if you're not so active.