You can decide to switch ammo types and attachments, which is useful, but once you’ve made that decision it doesn’t stick. Some items must be attached to weapons manually. The mouse cursor icon and the way it drifts might be a cute homage to 1989 computers, or it might be something that needs to be patched, and the fact that I can’t tell the difference is illustrative. Your teammates can deploy field radios so that you can fast travel to their location, but these radios are few and far between. You can revive yourself after death if you have the right item, but once your adrenaline shots run out or your teammates can’t save you in time, it’s back to a spawn point miles away, or ten minutes in real-time from the rest of your team. The safe houses and menus were the places where the game got in its own way the most. While the world is often stunning, the textures on the characters look like they haven’t popped in yet.įurther Reading: 40 Games You Need to Play in 2019 The game takes special care with sound, and gunshots echo differently depending on where you’re standing in relation to them. The isolation of play contributes nicely to the horror: watching red lights crest a hill through fog as the four-legged Runner robots crept up on me was effectively beautiful and chilling. The wide vistas heavy with fog are beautiful and ominous.
To be frank, I want to like this game so badly, but it’s just not very good.įirst, the good: the ’80s styling is delightful, the costumes are fun, the collectibles (dala horses!) are charming. But even playing as Generation Zero is meant to be played, out in the wide world with a team of hunters, the experience is a slog. It didn’t help that a bug prevented me from crossing out of the first area until a merciful soul from Reddit solved the problem.
Reviewing games is always a race against the clock: I needed to experience as much as I could in a short amount of time.
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Release Date: MaPlatforms: PS4 (reviewed), XBO, PC Developer: Avalanche Studios Publisher: Avalanche Studios Genre: Online Survival Shooterįrom the moment I first saw the footage of rusting robots stalking through farmland, I was eager to play Generation Zero, Avalanche Studio’s experiment in bringing moody sci-fi to their native Sweden, all wrapped up in an ’80s aesthetic.
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