Recent reviews by Pixel

The game itself is insane, probably the one arcade racing game to play if you are into racing games. I do say arcade racer but its not like NFS or The Crew which are hardcore arcade racers. This is somewhat in between arcade and sim but can be more arcadey if you want.

There's a wide variety of cars to choose from so no one is left out (although could use more SUVs). Very in-depth tuning and a lot of performance upgrades for most cars. This time some performance upgrades affect the sound of the car as well.
Visually, the game is insane...if it works on maxed out settings. I have a 3070 and still cannot get it to work at 60FPS maxed out at 1440P (even 40FPS is not very stable) but it looks so much better on Xbox sadly which is a weaker system. Hopefully they optimize it.

I usually don't care about the single player of games like this where multiplayer is an option and in FH5 as well, I don't care about the single player. They tried for a story or dialogue but its just cringey and would be better off with just one person telling everything to us rather than having multiple characters repeating the same dialogues over and over again. But hey its a racing game with multiplayer so for me that's not a downside.

The online is well, its great when it works. The leaderboards are filled with hackers so have fun trying to get a legit score on there. But playground games cannot let people use most of the custom designs because its a kids game and ban the creators indefinitely. Mind you that on kid accounts for Xbox, most of the online content is disabled unless parents enable it. Considering how big tunes, liveries and tracks are in this game its really detrimental for the community. The devs are just on a power trip on banning people.

Even after the patch the performance is horrible for the game (I've reset my PC so that is not at fault here). FH4 ran much much better and looked better too (since I cannot play above the high preset very well). The roads randomly turn into rainbow and black boxes. The foliage is just TV static and tons of bugs like suddenly stopping the car and falling out of the map.

TL;DR: One of the best if not the best open-world racing games but can go downhill real fast if the devs don't patch the major issues like hacking, online disconnects and performance. All they do right now is ban people randomly for sharing a spongebob like livery. I wish I could give a neutral rating on Steam but for now a negative will have to do.

The viking experience:
- Goes on an ocean adventure with friend
- The storm is insane
- Hope that there are no sea monsters in the game
- Encounter a sea serpent
- Shoot arrows
- EZ win
- Would go on adventure again

For real tho, almost 8 hours in one day says something. I barely play a game for more than 2 hours in a day so yeah. Also, watch out for falling trees.

I purchased this just to see how well I could plan out my build I intend to do in the future. And oh boi it worked really well! I played the campaign a little bit and its fun, you fulfill orders as they come in each day. But I mainly use this to see how my builds will look and if they will work or not.

Burning 800 calories per session, having tons of fun and training to be a jedi. Yup I would recommend this for sure. 10/10 Would hit people passing by again

This is a lot like Factorio without the hostiles trying to destroy your stuff. A lot more focused on building than exploration and PvE. If you liked Factorio or just want a new take on industry building games totally go for this one. Or even if you've never played one before, its worth a try.
There are still a few glitches in the game like conveyors clipping through others but that can be fixed overtime.

Even as of now there's quite a lot of content to go through plus there is mod support so a lot more content there as well.

My only complain from the game is that I am getting constant FPS dips even at lowest preset. Its usually 100+ FPS but sometimes it drops to around 20 making it unplayable for a few minutes. I have a RTX 2070 and the game is on a NVMe SSD.

Oh boy where do I start with this one? You may be wondering how can I write a review when I only got 1.5 hours of playtime, well I cannot play this anymore because it keeps crashing. Launch the game, loading completes and crahses. Cutscene ended, crash. Mission finished, crash. Crashes everywhere more than Crash Bandicoot itself.

Graphics:
About the graphics, no wonder the game runs better than JC3 AT LAUNCH, the game looks horrible compared to JC3. I have a GTX 1070 and JC3 runs at around 80-90 FPS maxed out while this runs at 60. The water quality is severly downgraded also.

Gameplay:
In short, a lazy console port. Long story, the grappling hook has some weird lag to it, the vehicles handle awful and the extremely annoying part is that I cannot (don't know about others) modify my grapple with a keyboard. I had to borrow my roommate's controller JUST to modify the grapple as the keyboard controls don't work in the menu. Besides these issues the game is fine (if anything is remaining).

Conclusion:
Buy JC3 if you don't have it and play that instead. Personally, that was my favourite JC even though the map was empty it looked beautiful, one of the most fluid games and really fun. If you wanna buy this one then wait for it to be on sale, having such bad reviews will make this game go on sale early.

Rating: 4/10 They improved a lot with density of the map (although the "missions" are repetitive) and the new grapple stuff is cool if you can use it.

The dedication Hello Games put in this game is HUGE! Not even AAA devs give a game so much time. As for the game, its amazing! The exploration is really relaxing and enjoyable, with friends it would be a whole new experience (I don't have any though).

Seriously, the launch of this game and these updates are something which will be remembered throughout the gaming history.

So far this game has been great! The story of the game is immersive for a city builder. The art style is beautiful and the graphics are amazing! I never really played any city builder before but this one is different. Its really really tough! The temperatures go down to CRAZY numbers!

If you love city builders any bit and really want a challenge this game is a must buy! The developers also plan on adding more content to it. So that's always great.

I do timelapse videos for the campaign of the game, so if anyone wants to check that out here is my channel link :). Any support will be appreciated!
Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoPQ_8q3iktqi3We91q9uoA?view_as=subscriber

jeff

So here's one of my many awesome experiences from the game:
- Entered the Game (totally awesome)
- Started fighting with 4 people
- Only me and one other player remained
- I had nothing and he got a shotgun
- He tried to shoot me and the recoil blasted him off the map
- I won
10/10 Would blast off the map again