I have been playing for 9 hours now, got this on Game Pass or probably would not have played it. The other reviews about UI are somewhat justified its not "great" but I didn't do the tutorial and just worked it out after clicking about for long enough and I was drunk and high at the time so I mean it can't be that bad. I have only played on the slow mode (non accelerated) and wow its slow but you can speed up time so thats fine and it actually means in the beginning not much happens so it doesn't feel overwhelming to me, the slowness of expanding at the start actually helped me get my head around things. Can see myself playing this for a long time yet, I am a fan of games like satisfactory, oxygen not included, stellaris, HOI4, and feel like this game suits me well.
Reviews of games need to be a review based on the whole game experience including updates, price cost, gameplay. This game is fun to play and the graphics are good (for the most part its not without issues) HOWEVER! The price ... this is priced far too high for its age and given the fact its been essentially abandoned in favor of black ops. Warzone is not something I play but I have to download it and install all updates for it. The updates for this game are enraging there is no other word for it, the numerous amount of times I have finished work opened up battle net wanting a quick game after a hard day only to be met with a update which will take so long to download you wont be playing till the next day at the very least is unforgivable in terms of updates. I have had numerous occasions after installing 190GB game where I have had to download 100+gb updates, the last one was 3 days ago for a 5 GB update which took most of my evening to download to yesterdays 32 GB update which is still downloading. The worst part is none of these updates are for multiplayer they are for warzone which I don't play or for black ops crap which I don't own. Also the battle pass is now completely defunk for MW because no rewards are for MW they are all for warzone which is FREE and black ops which I don't own ... so I paid £50 for a game I no longer gett any content updates for but free warzone which I don't even play gets updates? This is the first COD game I bought since early 2000's and will be the last this kind of crap is completely unforgivable and enraging when all I want to do is relax and shoot people in the face.
