Recent reviews by acgn

It's Call of Duty, go into it expecting that. The guns are pretty good. They pay homage to old games, and its a fun time with buddies that turns into a sweatfest from time to time. Suspend your realism for a bit and enjoy the twitch shooter, or just don't play it.

My only regret is having but one life to give for Super Earth.

Roblox, with more PTSD and jihad.

Quality first person shooter, tight controls, and consistent at what it does. There's a reason it's a foundational e-sports game.

An absolute blast. I wish that there was a GTA with the gunplay of Max Payne. Red Dead's gunplay is similar, but still just not quite the same. There is something about the gritty over the top gunfights mixed with Max's ridiculously self-deprecating narration that just makes this game a super enjoyable masterpiece. If you enjoy good shootouts and semi-cheesy action movies, then you will enjoy this game.

WOOOOAAAHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Overall, I enjoyed this game. It feels decently well made and well intended. There were a couple gripes here and there about the names of things (such as magazines being called clips, and even the revolver's cylinder being called a clip.) but the disassembly is a blast, the rebuilding and repairing is fun, and the customizing and creating your own furniture for firearms is really interesting.

Disassembly / Reassembly from a game standpoint is a little janky at times. There are times where the camera kinda freaks out, as well as times where you can disassemble a part on the table, and then other times where it makes you pick the part up just to unscrew something. All and all, seems to be relatively minor things that can hopefully be buttoned up before full release.

The firing range is super cool as well, although I would like to see an actual player model of some sort, even if its just some arms and hands. Maybe some weapons inspections as well.

I certainly hope that they lovingly update and release DLC for this like they have with Car Mechanic Simulator, as I could see myself investing hours and hours into building quirky guns and repairing old war relics.

Game was / is a good time.
Story is aight, nothing recordbreaking but they clearly tried.
The ending I got was kind of lackluster. Left me hanging with a few unexplained ends.
Overall? It's worth the buy in my opinion.
New Game+ is there to keep the zombie slaying going.
7/10

Got it for free, streamed over discord. Nice ♥♥♥♥ bro.

This game is pretty dope, not going to lie. It plays well for the price and definitely shows a lot of promise. However, as to be expected with an early access games, it has its flaws.

Pros:
For the purpose of this review, I'll compare this game to what most everyone is going to compare it to; Rainbow Six Siege. However, I feel that comparing this game to Siege is not allowing this game to really stand out for what it is. This game feels more closely compared to the Rainbow Six games of yesteryear. It brings back feelings of R6 Vegas and playing Terrorist Hunt with the boys.

The game is easy, as long as you play slowly. AI is not setting any next records for intelligence but they do the job. You can even attempt to arrest them, and interrogate them if successful! Gunplay feels decent and the overall fighting is enjoyable. Movement leaves a little to be desired, but isn't too terrible.

Gadgets are what you would expect from an old R6-esque game. Small breaching charges, and under door camera's on the attacking side, and door booby traps and sticky cameras on the defending side. I haven't had a chance to play too many online games, but I'm sure playing against a well organized team would be pretty enjoyable.

Cons:
Unfortunately there are quite a few, but given the price tag, its easy to explain them away. Some of the main ones that bothered me the most so far are as follows.

Sometimes there is a disconnect from what you see, and what your teammates see. There has been times where I am watching an AI mag dump into my teammate, and my teammate doesn't even know there is an enemy there. As well as vice versa, my teammate was spectating and an enemy that appeared to be doing nothing to me was mag dumping on his screen. So I'm not sure if that is a networking issue, or what, but it could be an issue.

Movement is clunky, and its easy to get stuck on things. Overall, the inertia in the game feels good, and its nice to not be able to run and gun. But there is a lot of times where I found myself getting stuck in door ways or unable to get past a teammate when getting shot at. There also seems to be a inconsistency as to when your gun goes into High Ready (points up to avoid shooting something) and that can sometimes lead to you shooting the ceiling when you should be able to shoot forward.

Another glaring issue is limited to the AI mode, and is honestly a pretty huge one. I know games like this don't tend to focus too heavily on the PvE modes, but its a great time killer, and I think if refined, this could be a great one. However, there was multiple times playing where we would get down to a couple AI's left and we would just be unable to find them. I know that Siege mitigated this by causing the last 10 AI to rush you. I'm not sure if this is the route Zero Hour would want to take, but running around the map for 20 minutes, or interrogating a single arrested Terrorist isn't fun.

All in all, this game is a great deal for $6. I have put 7 hours into it, and I intend to keep playing it. It has quite a few creative concepts that I have seen in very few if any other games. I feel if they handle it properly, it could be what R6S should have been all along. Give it a shot.