Recent reviews by Marcelo

Best Football Management game, easy to play, hard to master.

Only thing I don't like about this game, is traffic is a mess, always. You put a 4 lane avenue, but they decide to just use 1 lane, forming huge jams.
Luckily, there are mods to help there.

Still the best city management game

Great game, easy to learn, and simple UI.
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Great game. Simple to learn, hard enough to master it.

★★☆☆☆

What I liked

• The Story
  
• The Character Building

What I didn't like

• The UI/UX
  
• The Gameplay
  
• The replayability

In Orwell you are an investigator, you need to investigate what might be a terrorist attack, and find the culprit(s). You can check people's background, access their emails, listen to their phone conversations or access their electronic devices. You can choose not to inform what you find to orwell or frame someone so he or she goes to jail.
There are a couple of different endings, for both the story and the characters (including you, of course). Not all are happy.

Why I liked

• The Story: Is really rich, and depending on your choices, full of plot twists.
  
• The Character Building: All the characters are really well written, how they interact between each other, and their personalities. I in part, what makes the story rich

Why didn't like

• The UI/UX: You have an annoying companion, that cannot be disabled, that makes annoying comments about the data you upload. The uploading process could be faster also, I understand it tries to simulate a real computer connected to internet, but still it could be faster.
  
• The Gameplay: Even though your choices matter, there are not a lot of choices you can make. All the data-chunks get highlighted, and the only options you have, are either uploading the information, or not. There's really no challenge, and probably by the third episode, you'll just be looking for highlighted text.
  
• The replayability: I got all the Achievements in about 28 hours, and completed the game 4 times in that time, exploring all the endings.

I thought I bought a cheap copycat of hotline miami, and boy, I was really wrong.
The game play is excelent. You need to work your stealth and tactic die after die, and prepare to die a lot.

GK AI Sucks
Half of the time, my players wont tackle the other players.
I can't do any action, white going up and left (not pass the ball, not cross it, not shoot).
The gap between amateur and regular, it's huge, either win 6-0 in amateur, or lose by 4 goals in regular (and the other team scoring 75%+ of their shoots)
I'm deleting this right away

When I first run this game, I saw something familiar, memories from the '90s, playing PCFutbol (the 3 versions, Spain, Argentina and PCCalcio). The UI was really similar, and I hoped the UX was better.

Unfortunately, the UX is even worse than PCFutbol. And don't get me wrong, I've been playing football manager games for the past 20 years, but this game is simply unplayable.
The AI, should be called AS (Artificial Stupidity), a striker shoots from mid distance, my keeper tries to get the ball, but it ends up hitting the post, but don't worry, I have 4 defenders, the 4 just wanted to see the 2nd striker score. I was using the Clearance instruction, which of course, I was not able to deactivate before my players moved the ball, and since the clearance was still an instruction, the shoot right form the center of the pitch, scoring and awesome goal.
I lost most of my games, but 6 of the league Best Eleven Team, were part of my team, not sure how that can be possible, If I conceded an average of 3 goals per game.

You need to look for a player for a specific position, just scroll through the whole transfer listed players, and try to find that players you need, and of course, you cannot filter, and you can order just for 1 criteria, either position or value.
You need to find a new doctor or assistant, don't worry, you can choose between this only excellent doctor, with 5 stars rating, or hire these other crappy 1 star sating doctor.

You want to create your tactic based in your players, no problem, but the game will show you just the starting eleven, so you pretty need to create your tactic, not knowing if the team will be able to fill the positions.

I don't regret buying it, I wanted to give it a chance, but I'm really disappointed, the trailers and screenshots make it look a lot better. I don't care it I play with Maurizzio, Nicolao and Alvarado, or Messi, Neymar and Sanchez, I care about playability, and this game lacks of it at this moment.

I really hope the game is still work in progress, and FX Interactive can detach FX Football from PCFutbol, the game has a lot of potential, but until I see some improvement in the AI/AS I'm not going to recommend it