I finished this over a week ago and literally didn't want to write a review because I'd have to think about it again.
Legitimately the only credit I can give this game is that looting with the magnetic hand thingy is very satisfying and the setting is interesting. Oh, and I had fun in some of the linear sections when I was able to delude myself into thinking I was playing Bioshock.
Otherwise, it's a 50 car pileup of ideas and mechanics. It doesn't know what genre it wants to be, so it tries to be all of them and fails on all accounts. Don't even get me fucking started on those "open world" parts. The game even jokes several times about how frustrated the protagonist is with having to do boring shit, but as the player I don't find the humor when I actually have to do the boring shit.
Speaking of the protagonist, he is the single most annoying and unlikeable one I can think of. His decisions make no sense and his character depth goes from Sahara desert to a kiddy pool filled for 3 seconds with a garden hose. Oh, and that doesn't even happen until about the last hour, at which point the game tries to throw the entire narrative it's been trying to create in the trash with an epic twist. Why? I don't fucking know, probably just to set up for the 4 DLCs they have planned.
Legitimately the only credit I can give this game is that looting with the magnetic hand thingy is very satisfying and the setting is interesting. Oh, and I had fun in some of the linear sections when I was able to delude myself into thinking I was playing Bioshock.
Otherwise, it's a 50 car pileup of ideas and mechanics. It doesn't know what genre it wants to be, so it tries to be all of them and fails on all accounts. Don't even get me fucking started on those "open world" parts. The game even jokes several times about how frustrated the protagonist is with having to do boring shit, but as the player I don't find the humor when I actually have to do the boring shit.
Speaking of the protagonist, he is the single most annoying and unlikeable one I can think of. His decisions make no sense and his character depth goes from Sahara desert to a kiddy pool filled for 3 seconds with a garden hose. Oh, and that doesn't even happen until about the last hour, at which point the game tries to throw the entire narrative it's been trying to create in the trash with an epic twist. Why? I don't fucking know, probably just to set up for the 4 DLCs they have planned.