Recent reviews by Zersal

rubbish

is alright.
nothing too serious, it's fun for a few hours.

What a mess, really bad console port of a not so good game. It's enjoyable in a bad movie kind of way but other than that I'd stay away from this.
The weirdest part has to be that different weapons have different mouse sensitivity! The mouse sensitivity also randomly changes after some cut scenes which is pretty annoying.
There's too many weapons that do the same thing and they are all just thrown in one big list instead of being categorised like the first game, this is made even worse that a few weapons have dual wield versions that are listed as its own weapon too. There's 3 different snipers but they're mostly useless since you're almost always really close to enemies. You later get a heavy machine gun but it's kinda dumb since its so inaccurate that the normal machine gun you get a lot earlier in the game outperforms it in all ways, I only really used that on the final boss. You can find a rocket launcher but once again that's just outperformed by the grenade launcher you have from the start of the game and the ammo for it is a lot rarer.
There's multiple grenade types btw, took me half the game till i figured that out since they put the keys to change them on the other side of the keyboard by default...
Many times it's really unclear what you're even supposed to do.

Very fun city builder game with many interesting ideas. Interesting story and great soundtrack to go along with that. Runs pretty good too.
In some parts it feels a bit unfinished. Some of the late stage tech you can unlock seems a bit pointless. Space weather isn't very good explained, some types only affect your station, not your ships. The fire mechanic seem very pointless, i got a fire once in the whole game and then it ended on it's own before I could even build the fire station. But the core gameplay mechanics are very good.
It felt a bit easy to me, so maybe try challenge mode first if you're good at city builders.

Runs pretty bad on my 6700. when i tried to lower settings i just got smudgy artefacts and flickering in fog and shadows. Wish I had more to say about the game, but you have to go back to the main menu every time you want to change the graphics settings which takes a lot of time and my 2 hours are now up.

It's not as good as I expected. There's too much micromanagement needed for your units and workers. The graphics look good, but the scale of units is doesn't feel right to me.

Always online, always glitchy graphics, always crashes.
Braindead gameplay, base building is gone, energy is gone and tiberium is gone. Units are free and there's a unit cap now, it's extremely low, so you're just throwing a handful of units at each other to see who wins.
Units are also separated into 3 classes for some reason, you can only build one subset of all units.
The damage model is confusing, heavy weapons do less damage to light vehicles than light weapons? I don't get it.
The story is so bad it's just taking the piss, just referencing random things and persons from the games without much care about previous lore.

I don't know what it is about this game, it just feels really really good.

God this game loves to waste your time. Your character is slow. Everything has be done one thing at a time, everything is animated.
You have to ride everywhere and to go fast you have to tap A over and over again, for hours. Taping A is honestly the bulk of the gameplay.
There's no interesting, challenging mechanics, everything is doable by a five year old.
Your character movement feels super unresponsive.
Rockstar games launcher required... yikes.

Hangs and crashes in the main menu.