Dropped after a couple hours so not bothering to rate.
Shows a (very) slight glimmer of promise to be like a small open world dishonored type game at the opening section but its really really not and even that was very surface level. Like Cyberpunk is given some shit for being surface level with how you handle shit with different approaches but that shit is actually interesting especially compared to this.
Open world is not that big overall yet very barren outside the land marks that are kinda spread out anyway.
Shooting feels like shit as with other Arkane games but hey it wasn't front and center in those. Not to mention some really shitty enemy AI. The groups of enemies you run into aren't even that big to make up for it unless you're in one of these landmarks and still that sucks.
Stealth? Technically its there. Barely. Which fine, its a shooter but as already said, shooting is shit. It has no depth so only so much reason to use it.
Graphics are fine I guess. It's stylized so its not going for photorealism anyway but boy does the human characters look off and have weirdly big hands. Not even talking about the vampires but the actual human NPC's. That's just me being nitpicky at this point given I hate everything else I guess.
Performance on PC...oh boy. At first seems fine. Like as can be expected for a current game on a 3080 at 4k. To the point I'm questioning why the Xbox couldn't do 60 at launch. Got past the tutorial section, started going through the town, and then look in the wrong direction and the fps drops like a rock. Oh that's why Xbox is 30. Not to mention shader and traversal stutter that is ROUGH.
The abilities the characters have? Fine I guess? Why the fuck would I care given everything else. Maybe combat is better later??? Yeah not sticking to check.
I'm out. Huge disappointment. I was actually looking forward to this and I thought at worst it'd be a "low 7" I'd be able to get some of what was liked in their last game, Prey, at least but none of that here.
Shows a (very) slight glimmer of promise to be like a small open world dishonored type game at the opening section but its really really not and even that was very surface level. Like Cyberpunk is given some shit for being surface level with how you handle shit with different approaches but that shit is actually interesting especially compared to this.
Open world is not that big overall yet very barren outside the land marks that are kinda spread out anyway.
Shooting feels like shit as with other Arkane games but hey it wasn't front and center in those. Not to mention some really shitty enemy AI. The groups of enemies you run into aren't even that big to make up for it unless you're in one of these landmarks and still that sucks.
Stealth? Technically its there. Barely. Which fine, its a shooter but as already said, shooting is shit. It has no depth so only so much reason to use it.
Graphics are fine I guess. It's stylized so its not going for photorealism anyway but boy does the human characters look off and have weirdly big hands. Not even talking about the vampires but the actual human NPC's. That's just me being nitpicky at this point given I hate everything else I guess.
Performance on PC...oh boy. At first seems fine. Like as can be expected for a current game on a 3080 at 4k. To the point I'm questioning why the Xbox couldn't do 60 at launch. Got past the tutorial section, started going through the town, and then look in the wrong direction and the fps drops like a rock. Oh that's why Xbox is 30. Not to mention shader and traversal stutter that is ROUGH.
The abilities the characters have? Fine I guess? Why the fuck would I care given everything else. Maybe combat is better later??? Yeah not sticking to check.
I'm out. Huge disappointment. I was actually looking forward to this and I thought at worst it'd be a "low 7" I'd be able to get some of what was liked in their last game, Prey, at least but none of that here.