Recent reviews by SnprR

I'm not a veteran STALKER player by any means.
But after playing a bit from the original three games, I became a fan of STALKER, and STALKER Anomaly/GAMMA is one of my favourite experiences I've had on PC for a very long time and still play it today.

This game is incredible and fully lives up to the massive hype.
The story and cinematics are really engaging, and the guns and animations are awesome!
The graphics are the star of the show here, UE5 and it's best features are at play here including the lighting system, Lumen. Because this feature is not hardware based, it makes it available to all PC configurations, but it definitely effects the performance and it's hard to run.

I'm excited to see what GSC has in store for any DLC or updates to S2, but I cannot wait for what the community has in store for this title and this engine.
The makers of Anomaly and GAMMA have already said they are working on mods for the game so it's only a matter of time!

I really like this concept, has huge potential.

It's like Metal Gear Solid meets extraction shooter, but instead of playing Snake, you're playing some low life rat and you're only objective is to scavenge off of an ongoing conflict.

The graphics and atmosphere are really nice. Performance is stable but very poor at the moment so except low frame rates, but I didn't experience any crashes from the games I played and only one stutter.

The nice thing is that this game has already been heavily tested before the release day today, so the devs already know what needs to be worked on, so I have faith that they will deliver with the performance and the polish, because that's all this game needs right now.

To conclude, I do recommend getting this because the price right now is a steal as this will only go up in price once the game comes out of early access, and there is plenty to enjoy right now.

This is a tough one. The exploration is something I would recommend this game alone for, but the lack of Test Drive DNA makes me not want to play anymore until major updates.

I want to recommend this now, because what is in the game is quite good.
I have seriously enjoyed exploring, it's the best part. Seems maybe not as unrestricted as Forza Horizon 5 and 4, but the places you visit seem way more real, Horizon feels surreal, but this you feel like you're exploring a real place down to very minute details mainly in the way the roads work. I really liked that, I've taken loads of screenshots and thoroughly enjoyed just driving around.

The very disappointing part, is something they have mentioned will come at a later date, but it's just their word at the moment and there is no proof.
What I'm talking about of course is the lack of Test Drive DNA.
The parts that made Test Drive Unlimited 2 so great, are very simple concepts. Buying and selling property, licenses and that feeling of having a "life" around racing and driving, it was great but extremely simple to implement and for some reason many games haven't done or even tried this, except for GTA/GTA Online, the difference is the purpose of GTA is very different.

If they do what they are promising, and add the simple yet proper Test Drive DNA into this game, it will be thoroughly enjoyable, but right now, apart from the exploring it's just another racing game.

Final Fantasy games have always had great RPG elements, and great stories that are easy to follow.
Final Fantasy 16 is no exception.
Looks great, runs great, satisfying combat and so far I'm loving the story!

Absolutely brilliant.
I would recommend this to people who enjoy Dark Souls games and Elden Ring.
If anyone is on the fence about Elden Ring, this gives it a bit of a twist on Elden Rings formula; Black Myth is much more linear but it doesn't feel restrictive, I would call this game Open-Linear, similar to how Metro Exodus is described.
Black Myth allows you to explore a bit but without guidance.
The graphics are top tier, I can't name anything that looks better, it's incredibly dense with enough scale that you are forced to explore, similar to Elden Ring but not to that scale.

There are two negatives to the game so far that I can see and are of course my opinion and from my experience and related to my setup.
The two negatives are: No native 32:9 support, this obviously won't affect many, but very disappointing for a top tier Unreal Engine 5 game.
The other is the optimisation. There seems to have been a lot of effort into the first chapter for optimisation, it runs great on the highest settings. Chapter 2, I almost halved my fps from 120 capped to about 70-80 fps. This hasn't bothered me too much, I went down from Cinematic settings to a mixture of High and Very High and the game still looks great and runs better, just a shame that there is such a significant difference, this probably wasn't down to laziness, but down to lack of time, but time management probably wasn't great here.

I would still highly recommend the game even in it's current state, unless you have a game hovering around the minimum or recommended specs, in the other chapters you may have an experience you're not comfortable with.

Brilliant game.
Combines everything I liked about New World, with survival elements and really good building.
Gameplay is well made. Everything feels solid.
Just like New World, it feels like a AAA MMO.
The only thing that may make people sceptical, is the strange story.
I compare all of that to Death Stranding, it's hard to get your head around the story, but still very enjoyable.

After completing it on Playstation. It is still my favourite Single player game of all time, probably my overall favourite.
I am so happy to find out performance is flawless on PC.
Super happy the co-op mode seems to be working flawlessly too.

This forced Playstation sign-in requirement is disgusting.
What they have chosen to do is not exactly a bad thing, but forcing this 3 months after it has come out, and forcing 100+ countries to not be able to play something they have paid for is criminal.
Hopefully other companies will see this situation and think twice about pulling a bate and switch.
Can't refund as I bought a key externally, but doing what I can by putting a negative review.

This is something I want to see more of; easy to use separate software with loads of options and technologies available for anybody with all types of hardware.

So far, I really like it, they've built a great foundation for what seems like a niche target, I don't mean target audience but target of the type of game they are making.

This is extremely similar to Tarkov, plenty of systems have been taken from Tarkov and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. If a game has great features, why not take them and bring them into your own game.

I was instantly interested in this game the second I saw "Singleplayer", having an extraction game with looting and realistic elements that can be played offline and it's designed that way is what made me buy this without a second thought.

It feels great, the recoil with attachments is a bit unrealistic but nothing tweaking couldn't fix.

It plays well and looks really good. Unreal Engine 5 so it has raytraced elements like Lumen baked in so looks better than tarkov and runs better even though his is an alpha which is crazy. It is tough to run with everything cranked but not surprising as it's using multiple UE5 technologies. The gun models aren't on par with Tarkov but still plenty good enough. Probably one of the best running and looking Alpha's I have ever played.

The AI seem to be okay, they will definitely kill you if you aren't careful, but they seem a little gullible if that's the right word? You turn a corner and they will continue looking at the same place they saw you last, so they are very predictable. But saying this, I've only tried one difficulty, there aren't many AI in games so I'm hoping higher difficulty increases the amount.
The fact they have different difficulties is awesome, meaning multiple types of players can play how they want, this should be kept and possibly even customised in the future, something similar to Ground Branch would be awesome to see.

You get given a GPS which I think is great, shows the whole map, but you can't see it all the time, there's no mini-map, barely any HUD. It creates a more gritty realistic game when it's minimalistic and I'm here for it.
But because there is a GPS with the objectives and your location shown, this is a game far easier to jump into compared to Tarkov, which doesn't hold your hand at all and almost needs help from other people to get started. I'm all for a game that doesn't hold your hand but not to the extent of Tarkov.

Overall, really solid platform, I would have paid more for this, it's probably low due to the amount of content, but the foundations are well worth the money, because they could build a Tarkov competitor if they played their cards right.