Watch and see for yourself.

https://youtu.be/-eJdJeMVnRA



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If you are considering this game based on reviews and review scores on steam, first consider looking at the accounts making the review and gauge their legitimacy for yourself.
Many seem to solely exist simply for Vendetta -Curse of Ravens cry and it's publisher (with the rest of their account games untouched and never played)

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561401367


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Note: This game was already released around 10 months ago as "Raven's Cry", one of the worst rated games on Steam. If you are new to this title, please take that as warning as the store page for "Vendetta" makes no mention of this. If you would like to see what the original release was like, please see the video linked below (which I made for the original release which has since been Deleted).

I feel really bad for this developer. They try so hard to fix this mess of a game, but it would have probably been better to just walk away. Instead, they decided to re-release Raven's cry under a different name and try to pretend it's a different game. Well, it's not.

There have been improvements made, which is great, but these could have easily been applied as a patch so it does not justify being renamed and released again. So why try and release this as a different game? It's simply a way for them to try and erase their past and all the extremely bad reviews the original release was bombarded with. Now that all the old reviews are deleted and gone, they have distanced themselves from their failures and are trying again.

The game still screams "Budget title" with poor vocal talent, terrible animations and glitchy NPCS. Quests are still boring and the only redeeming feature it has is the ship battles - Just like the original release.

Changes:

Changes have indeed been made, but nothing that warrants a new release.

* NPCS now all have full voicing and don't just go silent with missing vocal tracks.
* Quests (that I have played so far) are no longer broken and causing the game to be unfinishable.
* Islands are no longer barren and void of content, and now have random animals to fight
* Animations have been changed too, but not for the better. In fact, it seems worse. Instead of the characters being flat and boring when talking, they now flail their arms around like mad men, over emphasizing gestures to a laughable degree.

But again... all of this could have been (and should have been) added in a patch. There are still many bugs with NPCS getting caught on objects and clipping through furniture, twice I had to reload a previous save game and lose my progress, all because I was pushed behind an object that I couldn't get out of.

I might amend this review at a later date, but at 5 hours of gameplay I could never recommend this game to anyone. If you are oblivious to all the warning signs and really really want to give this a try, then MAYBE wait until the price drops by 80% during a sale.

Maybe.....


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My experience the first time this game was released: http://youtu.be/pI_SvrECKIk

I actually liked this game. it has a good and engaging storyline, a decent melee combat and good ship combat system. Unfortunately, i am giving this 2 out of 5 stars. This game had the potential to be the best open world pirate game, but falls considerably short due tothe many bugs and the lack of any substaintal gameplay content. You just have the main storyline, ship fighting and trading and thats about it. If i thought i could get a refund, i would ask for one. Definitely not worth $50.00.

DO NOT BUY THIS.
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I rarely speak out against DRM, and when it's done right it sits in the background doing nothing. I also don't complain if a game is "collecting game data" when it really is just game related data. The GDPR forces these companies to be transparent with what they collect and in most cases it's pretty innocuous.

But this? It's over the top, and it lies to you repeatedly.
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Here was my experience trying to start the game:
https://youtu.be/o0b01GwIM2Y

First it tells you that it "won't collect any personal data" and then immediately requires you to enter:
Name, address, date of birth, gender, email, phone number, fax number.

Well, that certainly looks like personal data to me, that you just told me you wouldn't collect. So, I go back to the previous page and it states that registration is optional and implies that the only reason to do it is that the registered user will have "instant access to bonus material and other benefits" so I figure that doesn't sound too bad, maybe I'll do it later, let's skip the registration for now.

And? Well, you choose activate later and it tells you the game will only work in "demo mode" so I'm thinking OK, you just told me the point of registration was to get bonus material, but not registering is demo mode? Fine, let's see what demo mode is.

Nope, demo mode is this, that's it, just the menu. You attempt to start the game and it tells you that it must be activated, and to activate you must enter all of your personal info that it told you it wouldn't collect.

Every step of this game start tries to collect personal info or lie to you. If it had let me start the game and made registration optional, maybe I'd have done it eventually, but this is a single player offline game, you don't need my name, address, date of birth, gender, email, phone number, fax number.

No, just freaking no.
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So, how much of the game can you actually see if you don't hand over your life to them? This:
https://youtu.be/-YRexJPuRfw
That's the opening cinematic.

Graphics look like they are from 2010 (game was released in 2015), the story telling is minimal, doesn't really get me all that exited to play and the voice acting is cheesy. This is your first impression of the voice lines? That's the best you got to show off? Not impressed.

I took a chance on the game while it was on sale, I can tolerate some DRM and optional registrations, but not this forced garbage coupled with multiple lies on top of what looked like a cheap mediocre experience to begin with. I was hoping for a cheap cheesy night of entertainment, not an interrogation into my personal info.
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Bottom line: There's nothing else to say, I want a refund.
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Still a bad game even today after a few years!!
Vendetta - Curse of Raven's Cry is a RE-RELEASE of -Raven's Cry- which was so bad.
Vendetta - Curse of Raven's Cry is a bit better but not with much, game stil crashes, runs between 22-40 frames not matter what settings you have.
Vendetta has improved Voice Over with alot and Quests but animation of lip-sync is stil bad, combat is not great.
If you want a better Pirate game just buy AC4 Black Flag.

Over-all I can't recommend Vendetta, too expensive,not too much improvement, they could just patch Raven's Cry to this stage easily.

Mixed. The performance is bad, and the interface and controls are awkward. However, I enjoyed playing through to a point. I never experienced a crash-to-desktop or hard freeze and if the performance was better, I could have played more.

Many animations and the voice acting are funny-bad, which adds some unintentional entertainment.

Exploration is consistently rewarded, which is expected in open-world games. I also really appreciate an open-world game which allows manual saving. Apparently this technological breakthrough was lost to the world in more recent years.

Had I not hit a major bug (unable to leave San Juan tavern without immediately getting sent back in), I would have continued playing through and dealing with the poor performance. Considering at least 2 side quests lead to this tavern, I have decided I am done tolerating this game.

When you take a year off to retool and rebuild a game, make sure that you don't do things to guarantee quality and stability like excising your bugs (note: Most dentists and doctors don't actually get rid of infections, they just graft skin over it) instead just add a few character animations and contrast your environments then slap a new price tag on it while shutting down your old store page to make sure no one can see those naughty old unfair terrible reviews.

The sad thing is it's not actually that much worse than Risen 2, maybe not much better, but not much worse, so maybe those silly little details they ignored such as game "infrastructure" and "optimization" might have actually made this a playable game. Instead those crafty devils at Reality Pump got up to their same old japes, slung a ball of dung at the wall like those new monkeys they added, and insisted a title that could barely run at the same time as Steam's overlay was a high quality masterpiece that you should definitely buy while enthusiastically stating in their forums that things such as a stable framerate are only required by entitled gamers that don't know what they're talking about.

It truly is one of the most competent incompetent video games I've ever played, I should know because I've played both Ride to Hell and Golden Axe: Beast Rider and it's at least better than those games. But then so is getting my ♥♥♥♥ smashed by a legal dictionary. Don't judge and don't knock it until you try it. Do judge this game though, I think it's kind of a scumbag move you would bury your old reviews then inflate with a bunch of new reviews that insist you got it right this time when half the challenge of the game on the user end is just trying to get the thing to run. I guess I at least gotta give it credit for its juvenile humor that was cool to all of us in high school. Haha, ♥♥♥♥ jokes. Mine's not a joke though, it's pretty huge. Pretty good game, five outta five.

Still the same ♥♥♥♥ as the original release.

SO we all know original Raven's Cry was a mess - let's forget about it and do not take it into account.

Vendetta is supposed to be a new much better version of the game. So far:
- started it for the first time, BOOM CTD before I even see the intro.
- Second attempt after steam local cache rescan - game tells me it has to disable steam overlay to continue. Ok, I get to the menu. I adjust AA (nothing else) - CTD.
- Third time I start the game without messing with settings, game crashes during the intro.
- Fourth attempt I have lowered all settings as a precaution (I am on Skylake/980ti, there is no need for that just FYI) - crash in the menu...
- Fifth attempt I skip the intro to get into the same boring naval fight - only for the game to crash in the next cinematic.

Honestly, have no idea how such steaming pile of brahmin drek made it to the surface for the second time...

STEER CLEAR - this is Ride to Hell: Retribution with sails. and I have never before insulted a game so much to compare it with Ride to Hell...

Vendetta: Curse of Raven's Cry is a rebranding after minor bugfixes of the abysmally terrible Raven's Cry. While the developers managed to successfully make the game less shockingly horrible, they didn't manage to make it good in any way whatsoever. The ship battles are cool and remind of, yet completely lack the dynamic feeling of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag. The combat system has parrys and dodges but feels like the characters and their animations are going forward on rails... really really slow rails. It's possible to board enemy ships after they have been mostly disabled, yet there is only a minigame instead of actual combat to overtake the other vessels crew. On top of that, the minigame is horribly boring and after the dozenth time it becomes so much of a hassle that I personally just went and sunk every single ship I wasn't required to board due to the quest goal forbidding to add the wreckage to the other several hundred ships which sank into the depths of the sea over the course of my playtime.

Main and side quest design is very often bugged, doesn't register quest progress, some quest details don't update, there's no markers and the entire gameplay is highly repetitive. Animations are lackluster. The graphical quality jumps between actually quite atmospheric and an abysmally lighted scene with a plastic look several times within the same minute. The voice acting is terrible, the writing is even worse and truth be told it is so bad that it actually starts getting ridiculously funny at times again.

Then there's the ability to do other things than missions, killing random people or attacking random ships: Trading. There's literally no reason or incentive to ever buy any resources, because just boarding a single random ship will already yield more material than most ships could possible get into their hold. That is, if you still are willing to bother with the boarding minigame, although between having to walk to each individual trader on every port to be able to buy and sell wares and the boarding minigame, I'm not entirely sure which of those two is wasting more of the players time. I probably spent 50 hours alone walking through ports just to be able to sell enough wares to get the achievement for making 100.000 in trading income. It's just horrible.

As for the interface, it is minimalistic, but sufficient. The inventory works most of the time, but equipping new items often doesn't update character statistics without having to close and reopen the inventory. There's a severe lack of items and customization options in the first place, the character progression skill tree is a bad joke and I could actually ramble on for way longer but I don't think there's a point of wasting more words and time on reviewing this game.

Can't recommend this even at 80% off which is when I bought this game because I'm a huge fan of any games that features pirates. I'd rather play the original Sid Meier's Pirates on DOS again instead of ever touching this.

Oh and if anyone thinks that if I spent nearly 250 hours within the game, it can't be that bad: Much of that time was idling because the game annoyed me so much on a regular basis that I alt tabbed out of it and did something else for a while. That time probably added up to close to 75% of the entire time it took me to grind my teeth through this completion.

One of the games that really makes me question my compulsive tendencies to try to 100% every game I play. Just skip this and play Black Flag instead. Or Risen 2. Or Sid Meier's Pirates Gold. Or any other game on steam, really. Statistically speaking playting literally any other random game will most likely be a better experience than this one.

A lot of the 'playtime' was trying to get the game to play correctly, My computer meets all the maximum requirements to play. I have had several crashes occur when starting the game and it adds to 'time played' even though I didn't play 2.7 hours of the game. I gave it a fair chance to improve whilst I played and it didn't .

I didn't realise this was just the game 'Raven's Cry' under a different guise which I never bought due to the bad reviews and I can see why now. The game isn't what it made out to be and the controls are poor to say the least , you spend more time messing trying to get camera angles right to make certain turns, especially trying to get up stairs and facing opponents. The combat system in both land and sea are awful and slow. I don't get the 'Blur motion' aspect when you turn and it didn't seem to improve when I changed this in the options menu, why would that be a thing?

The game overall is very buggy and bad to play, I found that conversations were clippy and sometimes went silent even though other reviewers have not had a problem and music in taverns disappeared when you turned in certain directions. I have seen people fall through walls ... and beds xD. I expect it would have been better with more time and instead of just re-realising an already existing game , put this back into early access and improve it as although I am not happy to play it at the moment, I can see potential.