Recent reviews by Spacha

Me, 1am: "One... more... turn..."
Me, after one turn: "Oh, it's 7am already. I should go to sleep. Well, after I've finished this building!"

It was quite a long journey. The first gameplay took 70 hours. I love to take my time capturing outposts trying different approaches from "only takedowns" to "absolute bedlam". Mostly silently, though. BUT, aside from capturing outposts, finding prepper stashes and making the story missions, there isn't much to do. The world is full of various buildings, challenges, mini-missions and so on but nothing really fun or anything. And it looks and feels very immersive and beautiful.

PROS:
+ Immersive and detailed environment
+ Peggies play AMAZING "propaganda music"
+ Mostly great gameplay (with some drawbacks), shooting feels great

CONS:
– Opening wingsuit and special takedown controls are often very annoying and unpredictable
– Aside from the very beginning, you don't need money for anything
– You don't really progress when it comes to your weaponry. I got pretty much the best weapons in the beginning and used them throughout the whole play. Of course I tried different weapons but...
– There were not too many different kind of enemies.
– Battles (boss and outpost) were relatively easy.

I'd still recommend this game if you can get a good discount. The world design and music are really something.

I have played 130 hours and haven't launched a single rocket yet.

This is how it goes:
22PM
- this tech looks interesting, I should research it
- ah, it requires yellowscience packs
- ah, for yellow science packs I need to automate processing unit production
- ah, why is this belt empty
- ah, looks like I have no petroleum gas
- ah, that's because I refine all crude oil into light oil
- I need to increase crude oil production
- I need to build a new railroad, this time no deadlocks!
9AM
- ah, looks like I'm late from work, gotta bounce

EDIT: I launched a rocket. Felt great.

I've been walking for hours. At least I think so... I feel like I'm gonna freeze to death any minute. Wind blows icy snow to my face. I have way more stuff on my bag than I could carry. My boots are wet and my right arm has a minor fracture. I had no choice but leave the camp in the middle of night to find more firewood. Too bad I didn't see the cliff until it was too late. Damn!

Finally I find an old house in the middle of a field. I peek in from windows. It's dark in there. I try the door. It's open. I get inside and close the door. It's freezing cold in here but at least it's not windy. I light my lantern and inspect the house. I see a fireplace made of rocks in the corner. There are some frozen chocolate bars on the table. I fire up the fireplace using matches and some old newspapers. I throw few sticks in there, too. I'll have to find some wood to burn. These sticks will burn out in minutes. I get upstairs. There is couple of old chairs and some planks in the corner. I chop the chair in pieces using an axe and throw the parts and planks to the fire place. This should burn at least few hours...

I get my bedroll and set it right in front of thr fireplace. I take off my boots and warm my numb toes. I'm so close the fire that it feels like it almost burns my skin. I put some coffee to a pot and set the pot on the burning planks. I wrap a blanket around my shoulders and start going though my stuff. I fill up my lantern and throw few metres of smelling guts to the corner wondering why I ever kept those in the first place. I drink some water and eat some crackers. I drink the hot coffee and think how lucky I am. I could stay here for days...

Wind is blowing outside, walls of the old house make sounds and the fire crackles as I fall asleep in warm bedroll...


- I tried to put the best feeling in the world, in words. I couldn't. Try this game instead and feel it yourself, darn it.

Ulkonäkö pettää. Yritin aloittaa pelin useaan otteeseen mutta kömpelöltä kuulostavat äänet ja grafiikka olivat liikaa. Onneksi päätin yrittää vielä kerran: totuttuani ympäristöön se alkoikin tuntua omalla tavallaan lumoavalta ja pelimekaniikka oli parasta mitä olen muutaman vuoden pelaajanurallani törmännyt. Haastavuutta pelissä oli juuri sopivasti (eli näppäimistö koki vain muutamia nyrkiniskuja).

15 tuntia vaihtelevaa räiskintää, pulmatehtäviä ja tasohyppelyä. Peli ei todellakaan toistanut itseään ellei huomioida sitä, että kaikki pelin hahmot oli toteutettu vain parin eri mallin avulla (:D). Tarina oli mielenkiintoinen ja odotankin innolla sarjan seuraavien osien pelaamista. Se, että minä, uuden sukupolven pelaaja, ihastun näinkin vanhaan peliin näin syvästi, tarkoittaa paljon!

TL; DR:

+++ Pelattavuus
++ Vaihtelevuus
+ Juoni

--- Tekstitykset puuttui ja puhe peittyi taustaan
-- Eri tyyppisiä vihollisia olisi voinut olla enemmän
- Grafiikka ja äänet (huomioi pelin ikä!)

Suosittelen ehdottomasti ostamaan koko Half-Life-sarjan pakettina.

Beautiful, realistic, fun, addictive... You can mess around with this for hours and still have fun with explosions. But if you want real challenge and real fun, take it to the next level. Take first steps on Mun and put your space station into Kerbin's orbit. Then it's time to go even further and explore fantastic planets and moons!

It's definetly like every wanna-be rocket scientist's sandbox.

P.S. Explosions!

Jokaisen päivityksen jälkeen olen joutunut aloittamaan pelin alusta, mikä on hieman harmillista, mutta pelin ympäristö on upea ja viholliset sopivan pelottavia ja vaarallisia. Pelissä on kyllä mahtavat määrät glitchejä, joista suuri osa ei kuitenkaan häiritse pelaamista. Olen kuitenkin kohdannut mona tosi kummallisia bugeja.

Linnakkeen rakentaminen on jännää, etenkin kun jengi pyörii takapihalla yövaloinensa. Ensimmäinen yö saattaa olla hyvinkin kuumottava jos ei ehdi rakentaa sheltteriä.

Vielä saa odottaa että peli alkaa olla kunnolla pelattava mutta tarjoaa se jo nytkin annoksen kiinnostavaa ajanvietettä.