One of the worst abortions of a game I've ever played. Completely missing the appeal of the previous games while failing to be anything of its own. The open world adds nothing positive, its the most soulless empty landscape with random groups of tigers, wolves, and bandits. That's it. There's nothing to discover in the world, all the towns and castles are the same layout with only slightly different skins. I think the highlight of my exploration was seeing groups of bandits on the coast with half of them in the water drowned.

Voice acting/voice pairing is abhorrent, but not in the charming camp sort of way like dw3. Combat is incredibly shallow, even for a dw game. You have the 4 "skills" you can use; stun, uppercut, knockdown, and 1 special for the character. They all do pretty much the same thing though, they cc everything in front of you and you can follow up with some light attack spam.

Graphically you have pop in happening all the time, ugly billboard trees a mere stones throw away, horrid aliasing on everything, melted and muddy textures, mountains that are barely a hill, and plenty of glitches along the way

The more interesting scenario battle events and strategy from the old games seems to be completely missing.
The whole thing feels like a failed mmo at times, not that that could have ever worked since coop has so much desync it feels like you're not even in the same game world.

And take a look at that DLC page for a wild ride in disappointment, including characters signature weapons that were taken away to be resold.

Just an absolute mess, there are no redeeming qualities here. I came in with my expectations at the floor willing to squeeze out any little bit the game could offer but even then left drained.

It was entertaining to make fun of it with a friend for a few hours. That's about it.

DW games have been floundering for awhile now, its really sad to see. I've been replaying some 3/5 recently and they are still great fun. So much potential lies in this series especially with modern hardware backing it but we get this slop instead.

garbage

Very fun