Recent reviews by camXmile

This is a free-to-play version of Quake III Arena that is free no longer... The multiplayer that has actual human players is where advantages of this version start and end. It just feels that the once great game was vandalized, its corpse was taken from the tomb, ripped apart and sewed back together to create a Frankenstein that barely anyone was interested in even when it was free. The cheap feel of menus and lack of gore makes it my least favorite game of the series.

The game is solid in terms of functioning and storytelling. However the story itself is kinda dull.

Decent racing simulator with good racing wheel support. Falling asleep while driving might be an issue 'cause game is far from exciting.

Explore planets with dangerous inhabitants, help fellow marines and enjoy a chat with your sexy 1st officer Aida while you're getting to the next planet.

The concept is interesting and music is quite good. However, developers failed at pretty much every other aspect of the game.
The color scheme is ridiculously bad. Brown filter makes you sick almost immediately.
Weapon handling is even worse than graphics. It feels that bullets just disappear into the thin air even if you're shooting the enemy point-blank. Killing waves of brain-dead cops is repetitive and annoying. Watching how they die is boring and unsatisfactory.
And most maps are badly designed. Avoid.

The plot is painfully stupid. Game teaches you that backstabbing your allies is okay even if they already have a rocket technology (BM-13). The AI is stupid, music is awful and maps are just boring brown corridors.

Planning a cunning attack against unsuspecting Nazis is exciting and watching in X-ray how their balls explode as bullet penetrates it is most satisfactory.

The game is boasting that it's from 2012. Well it was completed that year but don't be fooled! The game can be traced back to Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) a. k. a. Corsairs 2 or Sea Dogs 2 and manages to look and feel much worse. TEHO in essence is a stand-alone DLC for Corsairs 3 a. k. a. Sea Dogs: Caribbean Tales (2006) which also was a huge step back compared to PotC. The developers tried to make a joke with game's abbreviation: PO:TEHO (PO standing for Pirates Odyssey) which looks like a transliterated russian word "fun" but it only makes them look even worse 'cause this game is anything but fun.
The first quest is atrocious. I couldn't leave the starting island for 6 bloody hours! And that's after playing the previous 2 games for at least a thousand hours. In PotC you can complete a similar tutorial and learn all the basics in 5 minutes or skip it and learn the game as you go. In TEHO they make backtracking a key game mechanic. You will be going the same paths for hours in a series of lazy uninspired fetch quests.
Naval battles are ridiculously brutal. You start with such low stats that it may take a couple of hours to capture the weakest ship. And let's not forget about "glitched" ships that you can only sink by aiming manually or by boarding. I'm pretty sure that it was easier to become a real pirate than play this game. It kicks in after about 100 hours once you reach decent skill points in Navigation and Cannons and becomes more playable but those hours will chase you in nightmares.
Music is a huge disappointment. I still listen PotC soundtrack sometimes but TEHO's music is the most generic and annoying thing I've heard in years.
Overall TEHO is a bug infested mess with hugely reduced playability to make it more "realistic" - yeah, good luck making it to another island in time while the wind is blowing in opposite direction. Also you could choose a female playable character in Corsairs 3. In SD: TEHO you can't, which is a pity 'cause you're stuck looking at guy's rear for many hours.

Surprisingly good game where other players invade your singleplayer game to spy and hack you, which is amusing at first but gets annoying very quickly.

I like the concept of this game and I wanted to play it but the deliberately clunky controls make the game completely unplayable and frustrating.