Recent reviews by Soup Hands

a didactic, clever, and deeply unsettling game. nothing is exactly clear, nothing is grotesque. while at the same time both characters feel very real. so distant and contorted, yet uncomfortably relatable. there are thousands of different people you could make either of these people all with different meanings and different motivations. and i think thats what makes it so effective. while i dont think unique original exists in this lifetime anymore, i cant recall playing anything quite like this.
well done devs, very well done.

To me, this game holds a similar summary i have for Cyberpunk. It should not have succeeded. It was a huge failure right from jump street, shoddy management and shadier business practices should have rightly buried this game in a coffin of its own making. Because when you feed a niche audience crap, then you very deservedly have earned any outcome that occurs. But i gotta admit, im glad it didnt.

While L4D may have invented the new genre this game lives in, they are the very definition of "function vs form". Much like we are all experiencing with Payday and Crime Boss. Idk what decisions were made, exactly what conversations and developments were made but i think this game is slowly crawling its way out of condemnation. For the minimalist, play L4D, the grand mother of this genre. For the maximalist, play THIS. The hotshot risk taking cousin with a car.
Hell yeah B4B, i sincerely hope you stick around.

under no circumstance should you support ubisoft.

2k is and always will be the second biggest losers for not reviving what would be not only a fantastic game, but a cash cow in this day and age.

Heres the thing...
Not many of us are unfamiliar with the concept of using a "formula" from a game that came before. Everyone knows that, every reasonable person expects that. What really matters is putting your own winning spin on the idea that came before you. Just like every ding dong that went for an easy explanation, yeah, this is very much in the same vein as Payday. the "pve heist" is no longer a new idea. What separates this from payday is a long list of quality of life improvements, little details that give this game more life, more believability, changes to the gameplay loop into a roguelite esque agenda, etc
When it comes right down to it. Id say the differences between this game and the only real representation of a heister pve shoottemup is personal preference. Which shiny wrapping paper is better to you personally, what similarities are significant enough to separate this title from a much bigger title with a longer standing pedigree? Star power, lots of voice acting, a more digestible loop, little smackerels of detail here and there make me feel liker im walking into a place ive been before, for the first time. Plus, all DLC free at launch for a reasonable amount of time? Thats ballsy, real ballsy.

Personally, i think this is a more successful natural progression of "the payday formula". I love it, what a phenomenal first couple of steps. Way to go Ingame, fantastic work.

Feels like i bumped into an old friend unexpectedly.

GW is so contentious and stingy with their content. It almost seems like they purposely license things to fail in an effort tyo generate false interest in their overpriced mini figures. Rarely do we ever get to see iconic things up close. You hear the term Titan Knight, Land Raider, Thunderhawk, etc in books you may even see them in different manners in other media. But its always in a limited capacity. Top down in an RTS, cutscenes and the like.
There is a unique wholesomeness to cleaning in general, so getting to see these machines up close and to scale was *really* cool and satisfying to me. Cleaning them brought a certain level of intimate detail that really made me appreciate a franchise ive come to enjoy so personally. My only criticism would be that Power Washers witty "emails" do not at all fit with the tone of 40K. But that didnt take anything away from the DLC. This was REALLY cool, and its even cooler to know that Power Washer Simulator is now canon in 40K. The Ordo Sanitarius will clean any filth.

i really really REALLY enjoy this game. the cute little bird friend is a big pull. as a skating game? its too floaty and stiff. its hard to get a flow.

a buggy mess. a huge list of small quality of life issues make this game such a M.A.S.S.I.V.E. irritation. Buttons stop working, enemies randomly spawn, your grenades blow up while on your belt, falling through the environment, crashing every 15 minutes, the one and only vehicle will blow itself up if you aim to the right, people not participating in orders all because of memes and internet content, out of the giant list of weapons and strategems only about 4 are worth a damn because the rest either dont function or because they are so inexcusably weak there would be no reason to ever use them. the list quite literally goes on and on and on and on. the game has a huge appeal ill fully admit.
but this game is a migraine, in its current state its held together with glue and even with a reasonable price i cant recommend anybody be yet another beta tester for this obnoxious over hyped PILE.

greedy, vile, corporate slime.