mugsy

This is a review of 1.06 version Graphics - 8/10. A good looking game in general, however the graphics are not consistent everywhere. They often look average or straight up bad, especially during free roam outside of scripted missions. Also, there is a lot of popup and plenty of situations where high quality model of an object doesn't manage to load in time when you approach it. Animations are pretty stiff outside of scripted cutscenes. Also lots of graphical glitches like t-posing NPCs, clipping, or animations freaking out. Story - 7/10, however it's very linear. Your dialogue choices don't matter 99% of the time outside of few times when you get to decide the ending. Characters are decent and Keanu Reeves character turned out pretty badass and convincing. His 3D model looks pretty disappointing though, especially considering he's the most important character and highlight of the game. I would expect better. User interface is all over the place. Pretty confusing. The fact that you have plenty of junk to pick up on every step doesn't help. I ended up collecting everything and then selling stuff if I ended up overweight. I picked the best armor and weapon based on one statistic. Didn't bother with modifications etc. Didn't buy anything, just used random stuff that I picked up. And I completed the game easily. Gunplay - average Vehicle handling - bad. Vehicles handle worse than Watch Dogs. Much worse. Physics - bad. They are 2005 tier. Car crashes have no weight to them, like cars are made of rubber and the behavior is often ridiculous, like you crash into a car and you drive under it. And running over pedestrians feels like they are weightless. Also it glitches out, pedestrians and objects often go inside your car and you drag them with you, AI - dumb. NPCs have barely any AI. And enemies go straight under your gun. They also get stuck all the time and you can shoot them easily. And there are NO police chases. It's not programmed. Police just appears out of nowhere. World - city is decently sized however it looks basically the same everywhere you go. There is very little variety. Pretty boring. I'm not a big fan of the art direction. And very little to do there. Those who say that this is the biggest and most immersive and alive world in video games are straight up LYING. It has literally nothing on games like GTA, Watch Dogs or RDR2. Pedestrian and car density is good enough, however since they have no AI they feel artificial and just there for decoration. Also, pedestrian and car density drops to nearly zero when you drive a vehicle, but it goes back once you're on foot. Overall, if you expect a detailed and immersive open world sandbox action game like GTA, Watch Dogs or RDR, you will be very disappointed. And if you expect a detailed RPG where every choice you make matters, you will be disapointed as well. This game does bad in both. This game is a big disappointment considering it's budget, years in production and how much hype it generated. CDPR tried to throw down the gauntlet to Rockstar and Ubisoft, but they failed miserably. This game definitely doesn't deserve a score higher than 8/10, no matter how you look at it. The whole game feels plasticky, wonky and unpolished/unfinished if I had to describe it shortly. I personally gave it a 6 because I'm not a hyped CDPR fanboy and I see things as what they are. It was not a HORRIBLE experience, but far far away from a masterpiece. All 9 and 10 scores are ridiculous.

Story and characters - 7/10. It's good but not great, you can find better stories. Also, this is probably the longest story I have played in any game ever. It just goes on and on and NEVER seems to end. New missions pop up on the map constantly. It's too long even, and the pacing is VERY slow. I feel that Rockstar has overdone it. Storytelling - 9/10. The game does a very good job to immerse you in the story and world. Graphics, world and gameplay mechanics - 9/10. It's a beautiful game. Some areas look and feel basically like real life. The map is HUGE and has a wide variety of landscapes. Incredibly detailed game in every aspect. World is very alive and NPCs act like actual human beings instead of being there just for decoration. Best open world game to this day. Only the next Rockstar release will be able to top it. Music, voice and sound design - 9/10. I'm not a big fan of the Western music genre, but it fits the game very well. I even managed to find few songs to add to my playlist. Voice acting is top notch. Now, there are few flaws that annoyed me a lot and made the game boring and tedious too often. These flaws alone stopped me from giving the game 9 or 10: - Basically EVERY mission begins with several minutes of riding/walking to your destination. During this time characters only talk with each other and nothing else happens. And these sections often happen MULTIPLE times during a single mission, which means plenty of time is being wasted on boring the s*** out of you instead of doing something fun. And what's worst, those trips are unskippable. - You can't run inside camps, most buildings and when the story doesn't want you to. This is super annoying and slows down the already slow game even more. - There is fast travel but fast travel checkpoints are placed very sparsely on the huge map, so you usually still have to ride few minutes to your destination even after you teleport to the nearest checkpoint. This is slightly helped by the fact that there are random events happening often during your trips and they can sometimes made the trip less boring.

Great and very enjoyable game. Plenty of references to real world technologies and corporations like Google, Apple, Microsoft etc. Good graphics, fun gameplay, and very alive and believable open world based on San Francisco with all major landmarks of the city recreated. I dare to say that the world created in this game is better than in GTA V and feels more alive and realistic. Gameplay mechanics are not quite as polished as GTA though.

What's with the hate on this game? It has great atmosphere, good story, alive and detailed open world, good graphics and gameplay. Sure, it's not the best game ever but very enjoyable experience overall.

Nice graphics, there are different beautiful landscapes. Deserts, mountains, forests, jungles, snow lands, rivers, lakes, swamps, etc. There is a lot of boring running around though Characters are uninteresting Main plot is pretty average and predictable, side quests are boring I don't get why this game is so acclaimed And PC port is bad. Graphical glitches and stuttering all the time.

Great surreal and fever dreamish atmosphere and great sound design, like all Cosmo D games

Great surreal and fever dreamish atmosphere and great sound design, like all Cosmo D games

Great surreal and fever dreamish atmosphere and great sound design, like all Cosmo D games

The gameplay mechanics are clunky as hell compared to later games, BUT when it comes to the story, atmosphere, soundtrack, mystery, it's easily the best of the trilogy.

Repetitive, archaic and boring shooter. Don't get where all the hype comes from.

The graphics looked photorealistic back in the day. Like a real tennis match. Gameplay-wise it's very arcadey but very fun.

Too hard and confusing for me. Interesting art style but that's really it. Uninstalled quickly.

Mindblowing graphics and tropical open world at the time, but gameplay was nothing special really

When compared to 0 and Kiwami 2, this game has the least amount of content. Still pretty fun to play

So far I played Yakuza 0, 1 and 2 (and Kiwami versions too) and this one is definitely the best out of them and has the most content. It took me like 90 hours to complete the game and every substory. Of course doing all of this was very tedious at times, that's why I won't give it a 10. The feeling of Japan in the 80s was awesome

Better than Kiwami 1, worse than 0. Has more content than Kiwami 1. Majima Construction mini game is a nice touch.

Horrible cashgrab. Previous 2 games were great, but this is just a boring, repetitive abomination

Best in the series and scariest too. Needle in the eye thing was intense. Part 3 was an abomination

Great game. Not very scary, it just relies on jumpscares all the time and after a while you start expecting them and they don't scare you anymore.

Plot is confusing and the gameplay itself is too. Too much going on on the screen and you lose control over what's happening.

Better than original GTA 4 and Lost and Damned. Fixed most things that were wrong with the original and added bunch of cool new stuff.

This DLC was meh. The Ballad ofvGay Tony and original GTA 4 were much better

Better than Rayman 3. Interesting, dark atmosphere and plot. Graphical style is nice.

Probably the best Sims game in the entire series. Later games had too much bizarre and unneccesary stuff going on. Sim creation system was very advanced for the time. Graphics are nice even today.

Slightly worse than Crash Bandicoot 2 IMO. CB2 had better atmosphere even though it didn't have as much gameplay variety. Still a great game.

Waaaay overhyped game. This game is basically a huge wall of text. Full of meaningless, confusing and pseudointellectual text on top of that. If I want to read, I will get a book.

I remember this game for the mindblowing battle animations for the time and especially for a handheld console

I completed this game and never got the appeal and hype. There are plenty of better adventure games from around the same year or even years before it.

This game was a graphical monster back in the day and required a monster PC from NASA to run in max details. Every PC was sweating at hearing the word "Crysis". It was the ultimate benchmark for years. Of course it still looks good even today. But gameplay wise and plot wise it was pretty generic and nothing to really get excited about.

The huge empty world and atmosphere of solitude and mystery really does the job. The only complaint is that the travels to find the next colossus get too long and boring sometimes. It's also hard to locate them using the light from your sword

As a fan of Dark Souls series I expected something similar. But I played it for a while and bounced off of it fast. It's quite different from Dark Souls. I'm not fond of the feudal Japan and samurais theme

Better than DS2, worse than DS1. Too bad that it's probably the last game in the series, but who knows.

Definitely the best game in Dark Souls series (and the hardest!). The atmosphere and mystery was unmatched by later games. It **** that it ran only in 30 FPS though.

The game felt unoriginal and kinda like a repeat of Dark Souls 1. Still a fun experience, but definitely the worst game in the series.

This game had big problems with the timing. I could never keep a good Flow and score. But the songs and animations were funny and catchy.

I played the original SNES version and it **** me in. I completed it many many times to see all different ending and outcomes. One of the very best RPGs of all time. Awesome adventure through time.

I played it several years after the release and the variety of gameplay still blew me away.

Just like Unreal 1999 + more. You could play it today and still have lots of fun

Legendary FPS that set the standards for other games in the coming years. Better than Quake 3. You could probably play it in 2020 and still have fun.

I don't know what to think about this game. I like the tropical atmosphere, the graphics were great for the time, Tidus **** as a main character (but some other characters make up for it, especially Auron who is badass), plot is confusing. This is a good game but I feel FF7 and FF8 are better.

Maybe not quite as good as Galaxies or even Mario 64, but still a great game. All this sunny vacation with focus on water was very relaxing

Why only 7.9 user score? This game was revolutionary. It's a simulation of everyday life. It's fun to create yourself in-game and even recreate your own house.

This game was absolutely mindblowing and revolutionary for 1996. The graphics might have aged but they still look nice for the eye because they are so cheerful and colorful. But what's best is that gameplay and controls haven't aged and they are still perfectly fluid and responsive, even for modern standards. You can still play this game in 2020 and have lots of fun.

This and San Andreas are the best GTA games to this day. GTA 5 might have better graphics and technology but it's boring

The best Grand Theft Auto Game to this day. 3 cities, plenty of side-stuff to do. I think we all have fond memories of playing this game. GTA 5 is boring compared to this.

Legendary and revolutionary fighter. Yeah, I know that there were Tekken 1 and 2 before, but Tekken 3 was something else. The graphics, the music, the characters, the movesets, the game modes, the movies. It pushed PS1 to it's limits. I dare to say that there is no better Tekken game to this day.

First change of Resident Evil formula to more action oriented TPP. And it was a damn good one. What's even better is that it wasn't only action oriented, but it had it's fair share of scares too (Regenerators, Iron Maidens...uhhh). I can't think of any obvious flaws in this game.

The historical leap of GTA franchise to 3D. It was probably the most anticipated game in my life. And it was a damn good game too. It was not perfect, the graphics kinda **** even back in the day, but gameplay-wise with its open world and realistic detailed city where you can do anything you want it was unlike anything we have ever seen before.

In general this game is less fun to play than GTA 5, but in many areas it is better and more detailed. Also, PC port is bad.

This game is definitely not as bad as many seem to think. Sure, it's not on RE4 level, but it's at least on RE5 level, if not better. I had quite fun playing it.