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Honestly - it's quite good.

Don't mind the upgrade costs and the few bugs I've encountered.

Do recommend.

Very fashionable, indeed.

I am rather suprised by the large number of negative reviews the game is receiving as the gameplay demonstrations had made very obvious what kind of game this would be.

Personally, I found the game a bit rough for the first 1:30 hours or so with lots of story related breaks, however afterward, especially when fighting the first world eater I found myself having fun and persistently so for the other 3:30 hours I've played until now.

Personally, I find the combat well done. I assume most would miss that there doesn't seem to be much in terms of "hard hitting" or "chunk 50% of an opponents health" attacks, but even if there are only "small" attacks the fights don't feel drawn out (especially as you progress in the game).

After 5 hours I think I am around 15-25% done with the game, however with the different choices (though I can't say how much of an impact they actually have yet) there does seem to be some replay value.

If you watch some gameplay it should be quite easily possible to get a pretty good grasp if this is the kind of game you might be interested in, though I would recommend it, for sure.

I am writing this just as I have completed my 50th climb and retrospectively I must say that this game is truly a masterwork in design.

If I had to describe the game in one word, I would choose: "fair".

I am sure this is not what most people would expect when thinking of Getting Over It, however, I do feel that this encapsulates the game perfectly.

The game itself is rather simple, you control the hammer of the man in the pot and push/pull yourself through the stage, however, this is what makes the game so unique. Throughout the entire game, there are merely 4 moveable objects, 3 of which will usually only provide a one-time hindrance before being pushed out of the way, the 4th needing to be used to further your progress. This makes Getting Over It a game with perfect information. Every single movement on the map is caused directly by the player and never any outside disturbance. This I feel is core in why this game perfect and why I would describe it as fair, be it good or bad, all that happens is directly caused by the player and is always the player's merit.

When the game description says that the game was made for a certain type of person, I feel that it might be about the person who does not accept their own doing, their own failure. In most other situations you can always push responsibility elsewhere. However not in this game.

And this I feel gets most noticeable when you decide to play the game more than once, quickly your time needed to complete the game will dwindle and you will notice yourself getting better as you become more and more acquainted with both the stage and controls. What might have taken hours the first time may only need minutes if not seconds later.

If you decide to play it, play it more than once.

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Quite a wonderful game. A game which would be impossible without VR and as such being a great demonstration of what the tech is possible for.

It's quite good.

I recommend this game to anyone, its one of the best

Please note that this Review is reflecting my personal opinion on this game. I have also been reading other reviews and will go over how I feel about topics other reviews have touched on.


So I have been enjoying Raid a lot since its release 4 days ago and am in no way disapointed in how the game has turned out and is developing.

The game has been labled as the 'spiritual sucsessor' to the game Payday 2 that was also published by 'Starbreeze studios' but programmed and developed by 'Overkill' while at the current stage of the game I do not think it is as rich in content as Payday 2 is right now, but I still think that it has the potential to reach or even pass the sucsess Payday 2 has had, if the Developers do everything correctly.

A big thing I have noticed is the Developers have been extemly active in communicating with the playerbase of Raid, if its in the Steam forums, subreddit or discord they have been everywhere fixing issues and taking feedback. One thing I am extremly supprised by (as I have never seen another studio do it) is the weekly livestream the Devs are hosting, it has a long Q&A section, information about new content and community polls about what new content should come first. While I am not sure if the Livestreams can countinue to be held weekly, until now they have been and I think its a great sign that the game is making big progress.

As for gameplay the game is mostly made out of you slaughtering nazi's while they storm at you (sometimes you will also encounter tanks and other special enemies), while the game does feature the possiblity of stealth in certain missions. Stealth is extremely hard to do, but possible if you think you are up for a challenge. The game has a rather limited amount of weapons as of now, but they have already announced 3 more comming soon, personally I don't feel that the limited amount is a bad thing, until now I've been fine playing with one weapon and working on unlocking all upgrades for it (upgrades are unlocked by completing challenges such as 'kill 250 enemies that are 20 more meters away from you). The weapons feel balanced and have a very good/fitting ammo capacity.

Many have said that the graphics look horrible, I disagree. While the graphics can be better I think that in the stage they are now they are fully acceptable. The graphics also fit the atmosphere and time very well.

The Game runs of a class based system, there are 4 classes to chose from: Recon, Assault, Insurgent, or Demolition, you will need to create a different 'profile/character' for each class. That means you pick your class and then you pick one of the currently 4 characters. The profiles you create all run on their own level, so bringing all 4 classes to the current max (level 40) will be a very hard to do challenge. Each time you level up you can chose from 3 different upgrades (except for each 10th level, then you can only chose 1 upgrade) and the upgrades will make your character stronger. The devs did mention that they might add a non-character based leveling system.

The game runs very well with very fluent FPS, I've never encounterd any kind of 'lag-spike' and until now only 1 chrash that happend when I tried tabbing out of the game when I just completed a mission (that was the first and only time it had happend).

And the game featues a 'borderless-windowed' mode... thank you

TL;DR: The game is very fun (especially with friends). While there is room for improvement with the current rate of developement I am very certain that the Devs will make it even better as time goes on.

I definitly recommend a buy.

A nice game
After updating the game today (11.04.17) I randomly got 18 achievements... I guess thats cool