It is kinda cool, but on the other hand I am just so fed up with all the superhero genre. We have seen this from all aspect and this does not extend it. It is an interactive cartoon.
I think it is a fine game. Very cliched story, but at least it moves around interesting parts around the globe. There are some very frustrating campaign segments e.g., jumping between trucks,destroying the tank, run around with the rocket controller. The truck part seems mostly buggy, but the others are more like simply very very difficult. The other interesting part is that most of the time everything is so scripted that you have little freedom how to solve sg and if you do not exactly as the developers imagined you can not get further in the missions.
It is the best a video game can ever get. Huge map to explore. It teaches children even to go through the traffic. Content everywhere.Just chill to go around. I wish there was DLCs or at least some content or events that is generated randomly and you just simply cannot finish. It simply works with two controllers. Runs on potato PC, still the graphics is great.
We played in on PC, but there is no section for that option. Anyway, it is a great game, no stress, just stress relief. Even the NPC-s naming are funny. Works with two controllers in local coop. Children can spend their time exploring its world and the interactions between its elements. Apart from the final boss, they can solve nearly all challenges alone.
The concept is nice, the visuals are nice. The positive side that it works with several controllers in local coop. Though not everybody is super fan of it, and after a few tries find it boring.
The environment is unique and beautiful. The game mechanics is easy to learn. The AI is super simple. The only issue with the enemies is their sheer number and the lack of ammo. It is nice that there is a company with us for the whole game,even if they are only bots. Also very nice as the plot unfolds, the battles are getting bigger and bigger and we get even bigger company. It seems massive. The end is a very abstract and getting exhausting visually.
The visuals are unique. Everything else has nothing new and have been seen and played elsewhere usually better. For me it really feels like an Unreal Engine tutorial, how to make nicely looking environment and some characters with the engine. But it feels like nothing has been added to or customized in the basic features. There are very few NPC around the tunnel maps, everybody is hostile. The enemies are usually just varied by size of shield and health, but you do not need to do any unique with them. It feels like most of this has been seen in the original Quake. Everything seems to feel absolutely scripted. You have to do exactly the expected maneuver or the NPCs get stuck. No choice in the dialogs at all. So the shooting part is fun, but soon gets repetitive.
It is the same as Zero Dawn. It is not bad just it does not add too much to the previous game. Mechanics are the same. The all time wood looting for the arrows are the same, which made it super annoying in the first episode as well to move around, because you cannot move straight line between two points, but you must collect all bushes along the way to have enough loot. Some new challenges appear which are some labyrinths that you cannot quit if you start. I hated those, but fits well into the whole game being a platformer with some extra jungle around it.
Everything is super slow. I become afraid of skirmishing of any appearing creature because it was just so slowing down the story. The hidden things are really hidden as you need to go with the old pixel by pixel thing to find sg just in 3D and constantly rotating the screen. The dices make you feel that you have some chance to solve anything but it just won't happen every time and if you don't save before every dice roll it makes you take extremely difficult paths compared to that if you simly had luck.
Some good story, mechanics and beautiful environment. What is difficult to understand how sneaking is intended to work, if there are only enemies in the map and they are re-spawned behind you. It is easier to just run through bases and trigger the missions.
This game really did the best to combine the best of the game mechanics of Witcher 3 and Horizon Zero Dawn. All the 3 game styles, assassin, melee, ranged are valid options. The Greek world is astonishing, the map is huge, it is good to see people from Greek history. The story is interesting but not at any level as deep as Witcher 3 provides. Most of the decisions have very little impact on the outcome. After the first ~20 levels, I think you have seen everything the game can offer, even it is becoming in a way easier as you start to ramp up skills that are more lethal than the basic levels. For me the bounty hunters appearing cheating in the middle of the fight and follow you to the bush your are hiding into resulted in that most of the money I earned went into clearing the bounties even in the middle of fights. Apart from this it is a brilliant game!
It is difficult to compare to Witcher 3, probably not even fair. That has so many established background and builds upon a common tale and story background that Cyberpunk can not build upon. The whole setting is different, it is a very dark future utopia, with the litter everywhere and the missing animals. There are so many perks in the game that the same quest can be done with various ways. One play through can just exploit one of the many styles you could try. The shorter story resulted in lack of established bonds with the other characters, so I could not really care in a way as in the Witcher. Also the plethora of weapons result in that you do not bond with your weapon neither as in the next corner you will find one with 0.2 dmg higher stats and you dismantle the current one for ammo. The weapons have unique features but it is interesting that the sniper rifles has nearly the smallest damage while the revolvers have the highest. Driving the car felt difficult and I always hit somebody that resulted in cops so I switched to motorcycle instead soon. Though it was buggy as hell and always teleported under cars, you could go into a car with it, so that part is very unpolished. The side quests had also lot of bugs, so instead of stucking at a wrong point I missed most of them. The melee weapons are difficult to use in close combat as some enemies are superfast and you just hit the air with them. It was absolutely worth to play with it. And the good news is that the engine is ready, now it only needs to be exploited and fill in with various contents from now on.
I played with Flatout 1-2 much earlier, and it is still the same feeling. Really varied cars, their physics differs, the paintings and customization is meaningful and funny. The events e.g., go with a 3 wheeled car against 25 school buses are really awesome! I did not expect to be so entertained with this type of game. I thought I have seen everything in this genre already.
I played with Witcher 3 before this game and in some sense in felt similar in some it felt like the complete opposite. Withcer 3 is a melee based game and you an deal very little damage from the distance. HZD is absolutely focused on ranged attacks, otherwise you are overrun in close combat by any machine. The huge difference between the two games is that there is practically no impact on the storyline on your choices. The main story line is interesting, and nicely done. Most of the side quests are boring and stupid, really mostly about grinding. The interesting part is that most of the skills can not be used ever really. You can not get unseen under a watchmen and hunt it from below, or going on a rope. These seem like map design forgot about them. It is interesting that you practically need to redress in a suitable outfit, change your weapons and ammo for every type of robot encounter. On the other hand there is not so many items that you an choose from, and most of the items can be purchased nearly anywhere. Getting a horse is tricky, keeping them is tricky, moving with them is tricky and you can not loot from them for a long time. So I walked most of the time and used fast travel. That you need to purchase time to time, as though you can fast travel from anywhere to the plethora of camp fires but you need travel pack, or need to purchase the unlimited travel pack for which you need fox skin that I was impossible to get throughout the whole game (I know I need to shoot it from long distance but still had not got, just bones). Also I played a lot during dark which I hate. This could be solved in Witcher by relaxing a few hours, but in zero dawn I just keep going and sometimes I see the world, sometimes I do not. In the first few hours of playing I felt it is a very bad game compared to Witcher 3 just in a very interesting set with robots and tribes in the future. After it I realized that it is a hunting game mainly which is funny as Witcher 3 is called the wild hunt but it has little to do with hunting. And so it felt very good in those terms. For me the most annoying stuff is the constant need of looting for ridge wood and metal shreds, medicine flowers and to craft ammo during battle. That put me off the mood so many times. But anyway it was worth playing with it definitely.
The graphics are fantastic. The atmosphere, the control is great. The gameplay is dull. You have no other option than use the final kill move all over and over again otherwise your resources deplete. The final execution move is the same all the time. It just get boring right after the first level. It is like a short cutscene that you have to see 10000 times ti finish the game.
