Recent reviews by Dagrond

This is my reminder not to install this a third time. I remembered everything I didn't like about it in a few minutes - best not to waste the web bits getting it again.

No bugs or crashes
Good story / sci-fi
Pace is steady, moves along well
Fun combat, no stupid boss battles

WOW ( a very old version ) with spacesuits
Cheesy (Not the high level of Bioware story-telling)
Bloated (90GB DL)

Good time sync if you are stuck at home

It's been seven hours according to Steam and I have yet to get in the game. Not a great installer,

Played finally, crashed twice when changing settings. Hung up the PC where a power off was required.

When I do play, its a good story. Combat is ok. Interesting enough to keep trying. But don't get it until they get the bugs out of it.

I HATE BOSS BATTLES

OK, I take it back.
Seems they were two levels above me and I just missed that having come in through side quests. Will recommend.

As much as it annoys me to go through a boss battle sequence (cuz I like the story thanks very much I don't want to work at a game) they do still give a nice challenge. The play is immersive. The visuals and sound, stunning.

If I take out my pet peeve above and look at the rest of the game, it is solid. It has breadth (lots to do) and depth (lots to think about and invest in).

Best thing I can say about this game is - IT IS NOT A BUGGY PILE like so many modern titles tend to be. One of the few studios left worth investing your future dollars in without reservation. Of course, it would really be nice if I didn't have to end-task it at the end of every session but that might be my PC clock.(Update: fixed a couple of days later)

And hat's off to the team and leaders that put together the historical walk through. Really paid it forward there.

I love Blaskowiecz but I hate the boss battles. Then there is the save corruption that makes me play 40% of the game over again cuz it decided to puke just before I got done. Not worth going through that again. Wake me when its over.

I played this a lot before they moved to the Steam platform. We met every week. It was a mess, but we laughed. Then we finally gave up, it was just too hard to play. When it went to Steam I thought maybe the dropouts and odd behaviors would go away. This is still broken.

But even then, it used to be fun until they nerfed all the DNA oddities. Now it's just buggy. Uninstalling again.

Five years later review: After not playing this out of frustration five years ago I thought I would give it another try. Lots of improvements in the new player guidance - but not enough. It is still an absolute struggle to learn how to play this game. When it does try to tell you something it flashes off the screen before you can read it. After pig-headedly clawing my way through the first quest-line using lots of outside searches, I spent 15 minutes trying to fiqure out what to do next. I couldn't. So I'm not gonna, got better things to do than reverse engineer what might be fun.


Original review: The quest system is just to hard to figure out. And then it breaks where you have to drop the quest and can never get it back again. Sure its fun to just shoot for an hour or so, but forget about following anything to make sense. Very disappointed in them not following through. Could have been really great.

WORST keyboard port ever.

Lara Croft with a light-saber: minus crafting and that tight ...

Hat's off to EA for some decent QA for once. Keep raising that bar. I didn't particularly enjoy the game-play that much, but I'd buy another title from ya.

Story is good, unfolds well. Going in-and-out of cut scenes was not actually bad. I was fearing the worst when I started. Combat works good enough to get you involved and become the character. If you want a challenge, turn it up to eleven I guess.

The skin gathering, leveling tree and weapon/tool upgrades are really just handed to you. You can't make a "Build" per se. Just play it out. At least that is what I saw on my play-through.

Map levels are good. Interesting hidden and hard to get to areas. Decent puzzling involved in getting around. The general UI and Story Directorship could use some clarity back to the player in a couple of places, But you can make it through using what is at hand. Eventually.

I'll say its worth a play. Unless you're a fanboy, don't pay full price.