Recent reviews by MarMata

Released in 2010? Even then there were muchmuchmuchmuch more advanced games than this. This looks like a 2000 game at most. Controls, camera, graphics, playability design etc.

Incredibly bad design (like, able change to an acceptable resolution only after starting the game itself and watching xy minutes of cutscenes?), bad programming, bad graphics, bugs. The only thing good so far was that the first level(s) had things to do other than following the movie's story. Unfortunately, the game does not start anymore, not even after reinstall.

Brilliant, cute, pleasant to look at and listen to. Frequent new skills and mechanics keep the gameplay interesting. Sometimes it can be a bit hard and annoying due to the timing and positioning required, but it is forgiving because checkpoints are usually quite frequent, and it is also very hard to die, if at all you can.

I am changing to 'Not Recommend' for now. May switch back. Also, blame Steam's binary review system.

CONS
- Your vest is lagging a lot, does not move with your body properly
- Browsing items is highly inefficient and annoying, especially the animated in-game store
- No option to compare the weapon stats?
- Accessories are very expensive and can buy only 1 piece per item (game warns you in red letters that it is used on another weapon already. But it seems you can equip only 1 weapon at a time, so no problem here, but then why the warning?)
- No real help for accessory pre-requisites, for example: which rails do i need to buy for the AK-47?
- glitches, glitches, glitches
- no ingame option to view / change controls
- in real life, you can switch fire mode with a thumb or other finger. Here you need your other hand to do it.
- stock simulation doesnt seem to be working
- stocked weapon handling is off, especially gripping with the other hand, it does not align
- how to replay the tutorial?
- TBD and etc

PROS
- Fun for pistols
- Short tasks, so you dont get tired midway and wont lose your progress.

This is a high quality remake, although seems to be too difficult for my kids -- and i admit, there were places where i died too.

This is brilliant, though may be a little too hard on standard settings. Luckily there are a tons of options to make it easier, harder, more interesting. And it is still being supported with daily and weekly challenges, patches etc.

You cannot save, which is bad, because of the tons of bugs. You can reload from the last checkpoint, but the game does not tell you when/where it was. Example: when upgrading the weapon, not the upgrade that i was selected got applied (also, one upgrade seems to have been lost along with the materials?). I walked a little away from the forge, and tried to find out how to open the menu. When succeeded, the reloaded checkpoint was already after the upgrades got applied...
Btw, not a good idea to put the menu button the same as the steam menu, especially when there are unused buttons on the controller.

Then the other bugs, like spells not registering many times (yes, my weapon is charged, this bug has existed for years), hits not registering, the screen going black for seconds when a ghost flies near me (and there are many and teleporting in from many directions). Some ghosts do seem to work together, which is nice.

Graphics is meh (and far less colorful then the store screenshots), and often bugged or the devs just left some very low quality textures in (strange, as the big tower over the city also has this, at least on one level).
Story is bleh so far, your powerful war-experienced superman character often talks like some teenage girl, etc.
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I am giving the review now, as i wont have time for maybe more than a month to play. I will play it through because it is not too bad and did spend money on it. If, in the meantime at least the save or the spell issue or the black screen is miraculously fixed, i will change the review. Too bad steam only allows thumbs up or down reviews.

I start up the game. Black screen. I wait. And wait and wait. So this is it, it is not even starting, like many reviewers wrote before?
But suddenly, black turns to grey, with "Cancel" or similar thing written in the top-right corner in some low-res characters.
Some more waiting and things like that, the game starts. Turns out it wants to connect to my EA account but I don't have, so i wont be able to play multiplayer, enjoy online features, etc.
Helloooooo? Have you asked me for my credentials? How do you know I dont have one? Etc etc.

Nevermind. We are at the menu. Since it starts with the wrong screen resolution, I correct it in the settings.
BOOM! The game changes to a nuclear blast level of brightness. No in-game setting can correct it, the monitor's own settings are the same old too. After some digging on the internet, I conclude it magically turned on HDR for the game which it theoretically shouldnt have been able to, and there is no way to turn it off (except by fiddling with a config file).
Oh, btw, menu is the same lowres font, some 20 years behind design tech and aesthetics).
Nevermind, lets start playing already.

Character selection. Some meh faces, whatever. Name you cannot type your own, but use a randomizer, which selects a name randomly... from a pool of 4 or 5 !!! Select voice. Later you will regret it, because the sample sentence was kind of OK, but in-game it turns annoying very quickly.

First mission, scan freighters. I do what i am told, bush the buttons no scanning. I go online again to check for solution. Turns out it is scripted, and 2 freighters activate on your radar in quick succession, and if you start with the 2nd one, the scanning wont work. So scanning is not a real function, just part of the lame mission script!

You try to adjust your controls. You experiment, push a button, and the game nicely says it is already bound to xy other function, and then rebinds it anyway, without giving you an opportunity to cancel. Also, not all functions are present in the config menu! For example, repair or something similar.

Combat starts, feels wery wonky. Graphics is on maximum, but still feels like you are surrounded by paper cutout models. Lightning, shadow, textures, all poor. Videos dont give it back how lame it feels. Maybe another bug, but I am running out of interest or patience.

It only cost me 2 Euros (I waited a long time to try, I never believed for a moment that it will be the "Star Citizen killer" as people advertised it before release) which is not too much even in Eastern Europe, but I am asking for a refund. Companies should not get away with things like this.

- You don't like that the match ends 20 seconds after the first player finishes?
Too bad, you cannot change that. Or the lap count. Or anything else.

- Your kid is disheartened because the AI agressively and competently uses the missiles and traps and forces them behind?
Too bad, that is even the EASY AI (baby milk bottle)! For some reason, it seems AI difficulty is (also) tied to the map, regardless of the difficulty you chose before. I may not have enough hours to have fully observed the AI, it seems to be inconsistent.

- Sprinkle these with bugs, like the game not wanting to use bluetooth controllers for player 1 ever, sometimes the pickup item graphics not showing, etc., add lazy design like all vehicles using the same model just sightly differently skinned (skin changes attributes of the cars, like speed, handling, etc), low character pool, etc.
An arena mode also would not have hurt. I wasted many hours on Wacky Wheels arena maps some 30+ years ago.
I am downvoting because everyone else is upvoting but it is very far from being perfect. 15 Euros is too much for this. Luckily, you can get it sometimes for 1.5 when on sale, which even us eastern europeans can afford to waste.

Has a few glitches and sillyness, but the story, the actors, the audio, the serviceable graphics is worth it.
Quicktime events arent too annoying either.