I almost pity this game.
Imagine being Bend Studio, working as a support studio mostly doing portable titles for years, and when you finally get your chance to put out a big, AAA game with years of development behind it, you put out this wet fart of a game that's endlessly derivative of much better works, taking every boring idea from the open world scrapbook and doing them all worse.
The general level of presentation is also just laughable. Scenes cut at weird intervals and dont tie well together. Animation is weak (especially when it's blatantly copying The Last of Us' death animations), and there's just nothing good here. Even the biking, which i have to imagine is the one draw this game has, is fucking awful - the physics are way worse than those in, for instance, death stranding, and that game isnt even remotely about biking or biker culture.
This whole thing is pathetic. It doesn't have an original bone in it's body and it's execution of every element is at best mediocre. Shooting? Bootleg TLOU. Stealth? good old crouching and hiding in bushes with no feedback and dumb AI. Story? Boring post apocalypse.
Even if you limit yourself to literally just first party PS4 games you have so many better options for literally everything this game is trying to do, and there is absolutely nothing remarkable about it beyond maybe an opening which is so jarring and abrupt I thought I accidentally skipped a cutscene.
What a waste of everyone's time.
Imagine being Bend Studio, working as a support studio mostly doing portable titles for years, and when you finally get your chance to put out a big, AAA game with years of development behind it, you put out this wet fart of a game that's endlessly derivative of much better works, taking every boring idea from the open world scrapbook and doing them all worse.
The general level of presentation is also just laughable. Scenes cut at weird intervals and dont tie well together. Animation is weak (especially when it's blatantly copying The Last of Us' death animations), and there's just nothing good here. Even the biking, which i have to imagine is the one draw this game has, is fucking awful - the physics are way worse than those in, for instance, death stranding, and that game isnt even remotely about biking or biker culture.
This whole thing is pathetic. It doesn't have an original bone in it's body and it's execution of every element is at best mediocre. Shooting? Bootleg TLOU. Stealth? good old crouching and hiding in bushes with no feedback and dumb AI. Story? Boring post apocalypse.
Even if you limit yourself to literally just first party PS4 games you have so many better options for literally everything this game is trying to do, and there is absolutely nothing remarkable about it beyond maybe an opening which is so jarring and abrupt I thought I accidentally skipped a cutscene.
What a waste of everyone's time.