Recent reviews by Anubis [NoeS]

played it since the incorrect patch launched..atleast for a bit... and they should fire who ever made the trailer for this because it really looked like the baja expantion labeled as rally but i'm thankfull that was incorrect, to me this is the first and only forza expantion i've really enjoyed playing.
60% due to the added style rally tracks 40% thx to adding anti lag to make the rally cars actually work.

now it's not perfect, i've taken to ignoring the co-drivers and just making a call based on what the race line does. and i would have liked a more rally style MP rather then 12 people chaos but..shockingly it's been good online people have been suprisingly civil (for now).

if you've always felt every horizon game has 1 decent rally stage this dlc is for you as it's been non stop rally fun (i have cars now that top out at 240/260km/h rather then 370 because downhill mountain sections...it's amazing).

and with the blessing that is anti lag for turbo's you can now actually drive rally cars like rally cars and not worry about it dropping out of boost.

started rough crashing every 5 min with a memory could not read error...which was odd, but patch 1.02 seems to have fixed that.

amazing port appart from the initial hickup's no issue's to report ran fine, game was great (was my first god of war game) here's hoping ragnarok will continue this trend, though it hasn't been announced for pc yet...now i gotta hope it eventually (hopefully quickly) gets over here :P

wile RE:7 wasn't really my thing, this is somewhat more in the middle of 7 and other RE titles which i personally liked a lot. quite a interesting setting for a resident evil game and it ties in nicely to the rest of the RE universe.

it can be really short (a achievement is to finish it within 3 hours) but my first playthrough with some back and forth for looting and exploring took about 9 hours.

runs really well but seems to suffer from a memory leak causing your framerate to tank after 30-90 min, the more area's you run through the faster it seems to pop up so it starts to become a frequent issue later in the game so for a good time i'd wait till the 1st or 2nd patch adressing that is out.

looks great, has some nice modern additions, and fantastic no QTE cutscenes

at launch i could not recommend it now....if your a die hard gundam fan sure.
otherwise i'd grab it on a deep sale or you'll probably be left dissapointed.

performance seems fine btw my pc's not cutting edge but it used to be pretty good and game just runs brilliantly at the highest settings at 1440p (i5 4670k with a gtx 980ti)

pro's
-gundam on pc finaly
-at time of writing 250 suits to collect and mix in to neat custom creations.
-after the last patch the lockon system became useable (stretching pro's but lockon was the pinacle of useless at launch)

con's
-debatable as a con but reminiscent of a dynasty wariors gundam with gunpla and skills tossed in which doesn't tend to have the longest legs in terms of entertainment.
-multiplayer, the solution to those long legs, no idea what it's like have never been able to find another soul online when i'd like to try it.
- the campain, from what i gather previous gundam breakers had atleast a gundam themed story where this highschool drama in a gundam obsessed highschool is verry difficult to get through (because of theme not difficulty) and makes it damn near impossible to recommend with the multiplayer being hard/impossible to do and the story dressed up as a highschool drama thing.

not quite a pro not quite a con
i wouldn't describe this game as good looking but for the most part i wouldn't call it bad looking either, wile it generally looks pretty oke there's moments were it can actually look pretty good

If you ever wonder how a game can almost kill a franchise look no further, the driving model is a joke compared to dirt 2/3 even when free this is a waste of your time, go play carmageddon for more realistic car handling

Recommend a steering wheel but it's playable with a gamepad (cannot recommend kb).

the gameplay is exciting and there's a unique thril of speed in the cockpit mode.
as any racing game the game starts you off in relatively normal every day cars but quite quickly expands in to interesting car terretory, once you start tuning you will find out that you can be faster with the assists off and some select tuning, but the driving will become very challanging if you just tune for power (a wheel makes it easier since you have more controll).

with assists it can pass as a pc version of forza, higher fidelity less cars.
without assits and a wheel it's a fantastic experience if your in to racing games.

a perfect balance between arcade and sim.

note :
there is a issue with the launcher, steam versions cannot play well with origin / disked versions (cars warping all over the place).
the fix is... in a gray legal zone so how to obtain it i will leave up to you.
if you use a disk version of shift 2 to launch the game without installing it (just having it installed in steam) the game will launch with no online issue's.

it works fine with other steam versions out the box though.

if you plan to play this game multiplayer do not consider buying it...ever. for any price.

the game works up till the 1500's when it all slows down for no apparant reason, turns take 1 min to process, frequent stops to the loading screen wile it does... you tell me are included in the purchase.

game is built like garbage do not buy, your pc specs mean nothing it's optimized like a crappy port. (fps great, turns just take 1-5 min to process lategame because... optimization)