Recent reviews by Paul Newman

Лучше игр в по-настоящему кооперативном жанре ещё поискать. Играется казуально, весело и захватывающе. В Overcooked 2 больше вариативности, но в общем так же хорошо и чуть получше, может местами полегче требования по очкам для прогрессии. В этой игре 1 новогодний DLC бесплатный и один платный, оба как дополонительная ветка на несколько уровней и тоже подбрасывают новых сеттингов.

Основная радость для меня в организации, когда по уровню становится понятно оптимальное распределение обязанностей, и выходит новый уровень - новая комбинация кухонного процесса. Возможно и поупарываться в соло, играя за двух поворят, но всё же игра на компанию 2-4 неагрессивных посудомойщиков. Графика и звук - конфетки. Оптимизация иногда хромает, но скручивание настроек не меняет общий облик.

Управление разделённым контроллером позволяет обходится и минимумом переферии, и клавитура и геймпад могут разделиться на двоих. Если брать/играть только одну из двух версий, то вторую больше шлифовали.

This is fine.

Во-первых, это красиво.

Во-вторых, это классика RTS.

It's alive and competetive on top of all singeplayer campaigns and custom scenarios people made over the years (in particular African Kingdoms and Rise of Rajas offer another batch of voiced over missions).

Real monument for RTS genre.

It's a very lackluster DLC, and clan itself is very narrowly designed. If only it had some story or at least special voice over, but there's no extra campaign to back it up. If game had Steam Workshop such amount of content could easily fit in a single-handedly made mod.

Game itself is well made, and many negative reviews point to this DLC. It seemed to be a worthy addition at a glance, but after actually playing with it - meh. It's priced as quarter of a game in here, but it adds 5% content at best. At -75% to -66% such DLC would be worth it.

90 minutes to complete, no replay value, characters are barely animated and have no voice-over. Maps aren't a puzzle, it's way too straightforward and monotonous. Trailers provide good impression, but simplified gameplay takes it away.

* 2d speechless adventure from left to right
* majority of gameplay is micromanagement of the vehicle
+ short (like when you go sightseeing, but don't want to stay in one place for too long)
+ design
+ soundtrack
+ atmosphere
- short (2.5 hours plus walking around aimlessly for me, speedrun acheivement is 99 minutes)
- puzzles break the flow

Cosmetics are stupidly overpriced for already full-priced game, while there's no coop or multiplayer to show them off. At least it's included in Season Pass, but putting such content behind a paywall is sketchy.

For an alpha of Early Access game this title shows a lot of promise. Game concept throws you in one of the more realistic war environments. There's a bunch of stupid bugs and glitches, but core of this gameplay is already enjoyable and makes you wanna wait for more.

Main issues of Foxhole at the moment are balancing and scalability. Maybe AI should be more/less dangerous depending how many players are on the server. Maybe losing team needs some handicaps. There's even no minimap, so navigation is slow when you need to relocate. But behind a bunch of issues there's a great game.

+:
Beautiful atmosphere, art and music form a harmonic picture
Depiction of middle ages, old everyday life, clergy makes you interested in history behind them
Great story on "epic" level spanning through years, with multiple characters to follow
Rare QTEs feel properly done, and no silly Point&Click quest logic, everything makes sense
Adaptation of a good book (if only Game of Thones adventure game was made like this)
-:
Will have to wait for Book 3 for months

It's well made and enjoyable, but you really should play previous Tomb Raider first.

Also don't skip DLC and side missions for later, they are best played as you find them. Collecting stuff after game end is not the same.