you can tell the devs clearly have a passion when it comes to working on the game. so far i'm very impressed with whats available, especially for early access. here's to hoping it only gets better with time.

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is good

I'm not normally one to play/enjoy Early access games for reasons that've been mentioned 1000 times before.

This game is a genuine surprise for me, and a welcome one to be sure!
Review contains surface level spoilers and references, but nothing narrative based.

+ It's beautiful graphically & level design wise for a start. You can tell that intense attention to detail has been paid in set design for main areas, whether it be fine sprinkling of atmospheric story telling, or designing how a functional facility should otherwise look, it almost always makes sense.
+ Guns have weight to them but handle nicely, I prefer arcade/Modern Warfare/Battlefield style gunplay & this is a nice balance between MW+BF & Arma for example.
+ The game has 2 main campaign missions that cover a few different SCPs, some being obvious faves within the SCP universe, others being a little more niche. The levels are set out into chapters that flow seamlessly together. It essentially feels like you're playing 1 mega level, instead of individual chapters of a level which is fantastic for immersion into the SCP world.
+ Even with a gun, things will still catch you by surprise, the horror element of SCP hasn't been lost. You're always on the backfoot & you'll know it.
+ Levels require you to explore & puzzle solve, use your brain etc, but this can also be a drawback which I'll cover later on.

-/+ Voice acting is either top grade, or 0 effort. Some of the VA is professional & the actors clearly love what they're doing, then you get a few moments like the SCP guards where they sound like they hate speaking at all & are ready to fall asleep bored at any moment. It isn't a major thing, but I couldn't help but laugh at the manic jump between the two.

Now for drawbacks.
- About the levels, sometimes the puzzles or objectives aren't explained properly. You'll end walking halls unlocking doors & switching power on, just to realise none of that was necessary & you needed to backtrack to progress. Or you'll end up doing absolutely nothing related to the text of the objective, but find yourself at the end of the level leaving the objective unfinished?
The whole, "if you go where enemies are, you're going in the right direction" isn't always applicable here either, as sometimes they just spawn to mess you up because this is the SCP universe & F*** you that's why.
- Crashes out of nowhere, but it's to be expected in testing phase. You can reload after every chapter to maintain progress, but it doesn't save progress mid chapter for example.
- Very barebones amount of SCPs in the facility based chapters. Narratively it makes sense for there to be only 1 or 2 unique SCPs in non-facility based levels, but within the SCP facility, it'd be fantastic to have way more to worry about and potentially avoid. Generic example: Get chased by 682 through a car park, closing bulkhead doors behind you to hold him at bay whilst you escape etc.
- Audio. Audio is generally pretty good, but positional audio can be iffy. Something sounds to be right next to you, but it's miles away, something sounds miles away, but is actually right next to you, a fair bit of inconsistency there. Especially with ally gunfire.

7.5/10 Worth the money IMO, a good investment if you have friends to play it with, this game has a bright future & the dev team should be proud of their work.
This game could very easily reach 9/10 for me, which for a more "Tactical" shooter, that's rare in my books.