Recent reviews by Deoptimize

Look, this game has good bones.

BUT, there's massive desync issues, which are CRITICAL for a rhythm game. For one, any lag (which for some reason there's a noticeable audio lag every minute or so) will make the background music desync with the music of your Ratatan/army, which is absolute hell to deal with. Then, there's desyncs in multiplayer; and also terrible desync on every drawn frame (i.e. screen tearing due to no vsync options)

If they fix these issues, this will be one of the greatest rhythm games out there.

I am copying and pasting my review from Euro Truck Simulator 2 since SCS copied and pasted that entire game to make American Truck Simulator.

God this game could be so much more than it is.

There seems to be a massive gap in quality in major areas of the game. The attention to detail on trucks and their interiors is absolutely fantastic, probably 3D scanned down to the millimetre. Meanwhile, every city is literally 3 intersections with a cardboard cutout of a famous building (so no actual city-driving to be found here), there's about 10 different types of non-truck car on the road, the only mix-ups in gameplay you find are randomly closed exits and 1 lane being closed for construction. It all feels like the focus of the game was put into adding a million tiny DLCs for new areas and truck customisation. Meanwhile every single quick-job is the exact same thing; pull out of this lot, drive on a highway, park it in a different lot. Why aren't there some unique objectives, like "take this construction equipment to this point on the map where there's construction" or "try and navigate this awkward trailer along narrow, sloped city streets"? It gets boring quickly and just doesn't change in the slightest as you progress. Progression is just longer routes and different things strapped to the back of your truck.

Maybe the game's just outdated at this point.... but it's still getting updates to this day! Can't some of these updates go towards actually expanding the gameplay, instead of just expanding further and further east on the map?

God this game could be so much more than it is.

There seems to be a massive gap in quality in major areas of the game. The attention to detail on trucks and their interiors is absolutely fantastic, probably 3D scanned down to the millimetre. Meanwhile, every city is literally 3 intersections with a cardboard cutout of a famous building (so no actual city-driving to be found here), there's about 10 different types of non-truck car on the road, the only mix-ups in gameplay you find are randomly closed exits and 1 lane being closed for construction. It all feels like the focus of the game was put into adding a million tiny DLCs for new areas and truck customisation. Meanwhile every single quick-job is the exact same thing; pull out of this lot, drive on a highway, park it in a different lot. Why aren't there some unique objectives, like "take this construction equipment to this point on the map where there's construction" or "try and navigate this awkward trailer along narrow, sloped city streets"? It gets boring quickly and just doesn't change in the slightest as you progress. Progression is just longer routes and different things strapped to the back of your truck.

Maybe the game's just outdated at this point.... but it's still getting updates to this day! Can't some of these updates go towards actually expanding the gameplay, instead of just expanding further and further east on the map?

Skyrim is a timeless classic. I could (and will) keep coming back to this game forever. Every time I come back, I find out things I never knew were possible. For example, did you know that Camilla Valerius in Riverwood will send you a letter praising you if you kill Sven/Faendal (whichever one she ends up disliking) after her miniquest?

Really solid single-player FPS, a perfect sequel in every way to DOOM 2016.

An excellent game. If you're a fan of the HITMAN series you'll thoroughly enjoy this installment. The challenges are fun, the elusive targets and maps are brilliantly designed. The game looks beautiful and the dialogue among NPCs is really well written.

I hate to see that the score is so low because of the way the game is distributed. I think episodic releases are fine as long as each episode is loaded with content. Trust me, each map is hours of good times.

Pros:
- Amazing story: Had me reeled in from the start
- Beautiful visuals: The aesthetics are very well put together, it's even fun to just have a look around.
- Interesting mechanics: Using the map with a compass to navigate is an interesting task.
- Solid voice acting

Cons:
- Kind of short: The game took me 3.8 hrs to complete, pretty short for the price.

Overall, I highly recommend this game to anyone who likes thriller novels. This game is the video game equivalent of a page-turner, you never really want to put it down once you start.

This game is absolutely fantastic, get it during a sale though, as it's a bit expensive. And make sure to get the complete edition, the vanilla game is quite broken in certain aspects. Great game to play with friends too!