Recent reviews by abbelyn

Decent, worth it mainly because the items are account wide. If you have a character for each faction this means an extra good agent for each and the cosmetics/pet/mount for each. The account wide on the agent is the only reason I bought this (damage based Agent that also gains extra bullet supplies).

Excellent story & multiple ways to progress. Tested TSW out for a few levels when I found out this was coming so waited for this.

Biggest issue I have is the F2P model they currently have is basically PTW. If you got RL cash to waste you can get Aurum that can translate into Marks of Favor (main ingame currency) which can be used to buy everything you need to level gear. Aurum also can be used to buy SP & AP as well.

The paygate can get a bit obscene at points too: aurum for expanding inventory, bank, sprint (required for last 2), not to mention all keys for dungeons, lairs, caches & scenarios cost without the monthly subscription cost.

The monthly sub is well worth the $13 it runs currently, though most of it is wasted if you don't run daily scenarios and lairs (some keys don't stack). The daily cache key alone makes this a steal, being each cache key equates to $1.50. Not to mention 8 hour cool downs on missions is very helpful for completing daily missions for marks, F2P has a 72 hour cooldown....

Funcom has listed that a 64 bit client is in the works, which should fix some of the hitching, however the engine is still old so graphics while nice are still a bit dated. The surround sound in the game is very nice as well, especially for ambients.

All in all, its a fun game I'll likely be playing for a while, hope we see the additional content after Tokyo they keep saying is gonna come next year.

[Update 11/17/2017]
Still going on this, the recent QoL update is very nice making gear easier to upgrade and switch roles if you wish (DPS/Heal/Tank).

Main story is very interesting and can be completed reasonably fast if you only do the quests needed for it (useful for alts).

On the subject of alts, this game isn't alt friendly at all. Special Events (seasonal or 1 time) typically only have enough for you to get all the items on 1.5 characters, inventory slots and the like do not carry over between characters (nor do bought cosmetics). This is partially because there is little reason other than RP or faction choice (which means nothing so far) to do multiple characters as one character can do it all.

[UPDATE 11/20/2017]

Looks like they removed the Aurum from this which makes this insanely costly for what you get.
Shards are easy to farm so no real life cost available, AP / SP can be purchased, but I can't see this being worth the cost at retail. Perhaps at 66% or higher discount.

[ORIGINAL BEFORE AURUM REMOVAL]

Pays for itself in Aurum at retail cost.

Warning though, if you buy this or the other one that you make sure you claim it on the character you want, items in the DLC packs are only available to the character that claims them. Not talking about the individual items in delivered items, talking about grabbing the DLC for the title on one character and the AP / SP / shards on another....that doesn't work.

Also if you buy both DLC you don't get a chance ingame to claim them separately on different characters, one click of the claim steam DLC button locks all items to one character only in delivered items. Only way to separate the items to two characters is to buy one, claim, then but the other and claim.

[UPDATE 11/20/2017]

Looks like they removed the Aurum from this which makes this insanely costly for what you get.
Shards are easy to farm so no real life cost available, AP / SP can be purchased, but I can't see this being worth the cost at retail. Perhaps at 66% or higher discount.

[ORIGINAL BEFORE AURUM REMOVAL]

Pays for itself in Aurum at retail cost.

Warning though, if you buy this or the other one that you make sure you claim it on the character you want, items in the DLC packs are only available to the character that claims them. Not talking about the individual items in delivered items, talking about grabbing the DLC for the title on one character and the AP / SP / shards on another....that doesn't work.

Also if you buy both DLC you don't get a chance ingame to claim them separately on different characters, one click of the claim steam DLC button locks all items to one character only in delivered items. Only way to separate the items to two characters is to buy one, claim, then but the other and claim.

This game was severely misrepresented by the devs. In its current state (after 3 patches) its maybe worth 20-30 tops, not the full AA 60 it sold at.

Like other games that were not what they should have been (Arkham Knight for one) this should have a refund option. This game is unfortunately being sold under false advertising, due to elements of the game that were stated as being there are obviously not. Below is a rather good list of the things missing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4y1h9i/wheres_the_no_mans_sky_we_were_sold_on_a_big_list/

The game is interesting and fun, but way too short. I ws expecting to fight multiple ice lords, not just one.

Nice mix of a few HP Lovecraft stories in a FPS/Adventure game. Stealth is your firend. I haven't enjoyed a story in a FPS this much since the Thief games.