SeriousGameFan

DeckNine don't have the talent to match DONTNOD. If they wanted to do a game, they should have focused on a brand new protaganist. Double Exposure is soulless -- and lacking the same art and meaningful moments that LiS1 had. In the end, they compromised Max as a character, along with Chloe, and disintegrating all that came before it, and disrespecting the choices players made, all for a cheap cash grab and potential vehicle to run the series down even further.

I WANT more good games to come out this year, so I was hoping this would be good. Unfortunately, it is not. The dialogue is so cringe and insufferable, that the devs had an option to lessen or mute it, entirely. I don't know why they think this kind of banter and personality type would be a hit to the masses. Gameplay is unengaging and boring; doesn't feel impactful and the enemy AI is mindless. It's simply all flash; and nothing underneath. Hopefully this puts an end to this kind of writing.

Not a very good game at full price of $70. It has a lot of grind in the beginning and several mechanics to extend the playtime. There are only several missions every night, and you need to go back to the belfry to advance a new night for more missions, and then you have to grind for every character. Missions are gated by level. Wait for this to go on sale for $20. This was a quick cashgrab ****, that doesn't hold up to the older Arkham games.

I give it a 1, for just the core. But the game is a pure cash grab, as it does not change the fundamental gameplay in any meaning way. Yes, this is a remaster, not a remake. However, Sony would like to deceive you into thinking they did a ton of work to warrant the full $69 price tag. This wouldn't be an issue if they offered a discounted price for those that already owned previous copies of this game, but they did not. And they didn't do that for a specific reason, and that's to force you to have only one option; to pay full price once again. Very slimy tactics from Sony -- they are going down the dark path here, and gamers need to reject this.

Wow, Volition keeps going downhill. This should have been a new IP -- not used the Saints Row name. Volition discarded everything good about the Saints, and tried to co-opt these cringey Gen Z kids into the franchise. Very poor writing, lame jokes, only filled with chatter about student loans, one-liners, and nothing of substance. We don't get any backstory about how they formed, and they do not fill the big shoes left behind from Gat, Shaundi, Pierce, Kinzie, and the rest of the old crew. The game was delayed 6 months for refinement, and it still releases with many bugs. NPCs doing t-poses, and enemies that spawn in ridiculous places, out of mission areas. Lots of the interactivity is gone from the open-world; you can't do many things as you could before in the previous games. Character creation is also missing lots of features, such as independent body sliders, hair options, no jiggle physics like in SR3/4, no different walk animations for men and women (it's all the same), and it's overall shifted to making ugly characters. Character faces are flat and not detailed. The main story is very short, the game is a ghost town. This was supposed to replicate Las Vegas (the city that never sleeps), but there's rarely any NPCs out. Compared to even it's previous games, the world is empty. The audio mix of the game is off, so some times the sound is really low. Man, there's just so many things wrong with this game. Go watch all the reviews on Youtube that point out all these problems, if you don't take any word here. It's all documented. Volition is playing scared; their recent string of bad games have made them super conservative, and afraid of taking risks, and it shows. Outdated gameplay design can't carry them any more, and they tried to jump aboard the Gen Z demographic, but really failed here.

Shame on Activision-Blizzard. Very greedy people that prey on human instincts to extract money from them in a very insidious way. All to please their shareholders. This product is the end result.

Not a very captivating or engaging game. Unless you already are immerse in the lore of VTM, this is gonna be a slog ****. I don't care about sjw politics or agenda; it doesn't bother me -- I just like good games. To immediately throw around terms like sjw really deflects from the low quality character designs in this game. It's as if the devs plugged in the characters in a random generator and said, "good enough". They have random blotches, or are just plain hideous looking. I mean, some of the nosferato or warlocks look better than some "human" characters. To top it all off, they all have wooden expressions and facial animations. Galeb is the only decent-looking character. Want to make a game people want to play? Have some decent looking character designs. If you don't, then they better have some good personality to win people over. This game doesn't have any of it. And I know the dev can do it, since they made their previous game, The Council, have a decent looking characters (female characters, at least). Now onto the story itself -- it's starts off with a boring investigation about a Code Red that goes off during a Unification party. I don't understand the stakes at hand here, so I don't really care. This is why it's so hard to get into this text-heavy game. Doesn't engage the player at all. There's a lot of politicking going on between factions, but you don't really care about any of it. There's also a lot of dumb things in this game that needed to be cut. The first time you **** someone's blood, you've seen it already. I don't need to view the same scene again every time I drink blood, and to play that mini-game that isn't a challenge. It's such a waste of time. Janky controls add to the frustration. Also, the publisher Nacon is very greedy. If you want to buy the PS4 version, you don't get the PS5 upgrade for free. If you buy PS4, there is no free upgrade which is now normalized, or even an upgrade path. You gotta buy the entire PS5 version. They have a "special" edition, called Primogen edition, that you need to buy if you want BOTH PS4 & PS5 versions. Honestly, the quality of this game is so poor, they really need to be giving out free or discount copies as much as they can. At least they can probably get some word-of-mouth out of it.

Sony has made the flagship race simulator franchise into an online-only, microtransaction-filled abomination. They said: "how can we maximize profits with this game?" And it reeks of corporate design. Say 'NO' to games that require an online connection. Say 'NO' to games that try to milk you with microtransactions, in-game "currency", etc. Pure shameless cash grab.

If you've played the demo, then you already knew this was a bomb waiting to happen. What happened to the once great Bioware? Well, they are no more. Anthem is a game created by a committee -- of EA boardroom execs. It was pushed out before March 31st; the end of their fiscal quarter. But after 6 years in development, is it all EA's fault? Who knows. After Mass Effect Andromeda, we now know the Bioware that we once knew does not exist anymore; only in name (which is now sullied and to be discarded). In the end, this is a good thing. Hopefully this spells the end of these loot shooters, and we gamers can get back to the high-quality single-player experiences we are looking for. Don't buy this game -- don't support this trash, or you will get more in the future.

5 years in development and this is what we get. What a shame. The entirety of the Xbox One generation is a dark, forgettable one. Crackdown 3 is pure trash. Luckily, we can weed out those critics that rated this game too highly, (e.g. Gamespew). Metacritic, don't calculated their reviews anymore. Remove their credentials on the basis of consumer deception. There is a reason why this is a Game Pass game. It's not worth your time, or $60.

I actually give this game a 6 out of 10, but bumped it up to 7 because the Duchess has huge cleavage and a bare back. I saw the trailer for this and it looked interesting --- full of mystery and intrigue. But when you actually get to play the game the whole tone is off. The main character, Louis, is called to a private island of some shadowy nobleman because his mother who was there, had gone missing. The entire first episode 1 'The Mad Ones' has you finding clues and such to her whereabouts. The problem is that there are no hints of grander things to come, and the missing mother is not much of a motivation or lure. You meet with some other high profile people (like George Washington) but there isn't a sense of any conspiracies or happenings to look forward to. The character models for the most part are really creepy (wrinkly faces and dead eyes). Voice acting isn't as great as it could be to provide the tone. I feel that this episode lacked a clear direction on giving the player some reason to care about Louis' story. I'll check out Episode 2, but so far this is a pretty forgettable game. I don't recommend it, but I don't regret it too much. The Duchess Emily is sexy.

The game size is 2.7 GB. The price is full MSRP $60 USD, higher in other regions. I don't care that it doesn't have multiplayer, but the single-player story ****. That should tell you enough.

This game being on Xbox Game Pass was the first bad sign. Shallow content, microtransaction-filled game, typical of Xbox titles nowadays. At least with No Man's Sky, the Sony reps admitted the game could have used more development. The talking heads at Xbox won't ever admit that, and went ahead and pushed out this turd like used car salesmen -- every one of them: Phil Spencer, Larry Hryb, Albert Penello, et al. Don't know why they didn't discount it like they did with ReCore; guess they didn't want too many budget titles in their library. This was the last straw -- I'm off Xbox now and getting a PS4. Just in time for God of War and Detroit: Become Human, and later this year Spider-Man. Microsoft can keep their Gears/Halo/Forza and microtransactions.

I don't know what the hell Sean Murray is thinking. Did Hello Games even playtest this for more than a few hours? Murray is too caught up on his procedural universe as an accomplishment he forgot to design a game. When consumers have to ask the question "What do you do in this game?", you know you're in trouble. I won't even mention the misinformation vagueness that continues from Murray. The game has no story, but there is a reason why Sony was harsh against early leaks and stream impressions from this game -- it was because they did not want the bad word-of-mouth to spread before the hype machine squeezed all the dollars from the **** that buy this game at $60. The game is like an ocean a mile wide, but only an inch deep. Change your studio to Goodbye Games and pack it up.

First of all, you have to ask why they are doing this sort of episodic release, when they plan to release a physical version down the line anyway. The real reason is that all of us are beta testers for the game until the final product is done. And beta test we did -- servers go down constantly, framerate hitches on PS4, audio mix is not good, animations are stiff, etc. This game is not fully cooked. Yet they have the audacity to put the game on sale for us to fix the game for them. That in itself deserves low stars. The other egregious thing that this game requires a constant online connection, for you to keep XP Progress, complete challenges, and gain unlocks like the sniper, remote bomb, etc. The game as it is offline, is super gimped, and a shallow husk ****. For what purpose does this serve? To datamine player's activities? The only reasonable thing that requires online are the Contracts and Elusive Targets, but the single-player main campaign does not need this. This knocks this game down to 1 star automatically. Players and fans of HITMAN alike have protested this and they have not heard or made any changes to accommodate. So if that is the case, then I do not recommend this game to you my friend. Pass on it and don't allow developers and publishers to set a precedent for always-online Internet connection.