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4 people found this review helpful
11.2 hrs on record
My buddy showed me this on his Xbox late one night thinking it might be up my alley. It definitely was, I bought it the next day and played it through almost in entirety (with a few beers.) Just awesome.

Super fun and crunchy gameplay, set up for speed-running success and quick resets. Cool and varying map design, memorable soundtrack, and a pretty captivating story. Incredibly satisfying once you figure that perfect route out on a level.

It is MUCH easier to play on Mouse and Key than a controller. It took me 11.2 hours to 100% the achievements for the game. I really like the lore honestly, although it is hardly believable. It's not even believable to the enemies haha. Talk about a one man army.

I would recommend this to anyone who likes a challenge, especially those who enjoy Superhot, Titanfall 2's gauntlet, or trial games that combine movement, aim, and precision presses. 10/10 experience for me.
Posted November 25. Last edited November 25.
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11 people found this review helpful
12.6 hrs on record
One of the shortest and sweetest games I have ever completed. A superb campaign mechanically and conceptually. Multiplayer achievements that are easily doable over a decade after release. Super crunchy gunfeel and familiar gameplay that is leagues smoother than Infinite Warfare, Apex, and any other similar title. This game is just super fun to run through. Enjoyed every moment!
Posted November 10.
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2 people found this review helpful
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1.8 hrs on record
One of the least enjoyable video game experiences I've ever had. It reminds me of games that Freshman students in University make for a project. The pacing is TERRIBLE. While they give you a sprint button, it is only usable during "walk to work" game play, and the entire pacing of the game is slow as hell. I legitimately felt like the game was running in slow motion at parts. It would be fine if there weren't two endings you have to repeat the entire game to accomplish. What could have been a 40-60 minute experience turned quickly into 2+ hours. The horror aspects are soft, and the game play itself is repetitive and weak. The game plays as unintuitive and annoying, and it's is either too dark or too bright at all times. The jump scares are cheap and unfrightful, and the story line is lacking in intention. I like Chillas Art games, and I love a good quick indie horror gameplay, but this may lie within the top 5 worst games I ever played. It just falls short of a quick horror game and quickly transforms into an annoying, lackluster mess. It's bad gameplay with forced repetition and terrible aesthetics. I recommend you play other games instead, like Boba Shop, Night Bus, Bloodwash, Mouthwashing, Iron Lung, 8, or any other game that follows this trope. This was a hair-ripping experience that took almost 2 hours for what is 30 minutes of actual content. Cheers
Posted April 28. Last edited April 28.
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3 people found this review helpful
2.5 hrs on record (0.1 hrs at review time)
Call it like it is... shovel-ware for achievement boosting. I thought it was actually some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ (in a fun way) sidescroller until I bought it and realized the gameplay is worse than 90% of games on Miniclip. It is, like many achievement shovelware games, likely a front for achievement based donations for profile enhancement. You don't even have to play it... just idle it for an hour on the menu. Get this if you want your total achievement count to go up, don't get it if you want to play an actual game.
Posted March 25.
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12 people found this review helpful
0.0 hrs on record
Got this after Ubisoft dropped achievements on Steam and was hoping that the reviews weren't an accurate reflection of the DLC pack. Turns out they were quite correct - much like the reviews, this campaign was overwhelmingly negative. A glitchy, buggy nightmare that is palpably rushed. Conceptually it is ingenious... combining the underlying mechanics of Wildlands with more loose and fun gameplay, like drifting, racing, precision challenges... but it plays like a untested version of an early saints row. Some of the side mission ideology even seemingly stems from saints row, like "driving live untamed animals." The only redeeming aspect of the story is the "twist" at the end. The character building throughout is weak and embarrassing to play through.

You do not get companions, so if any sort of mishap, bug, or tragedy takes place you instantly die with no chance of revival and have to restart from a poorly built checkpoint. Overall the difficulty to complete is based entirely in tedium, as you have to grind side missions to gain followers in each of 4 regions of the map. It took me about 6 hours in totality, and I had some serious hair pulling and cringe inducing moments throughout. Avoid this if you aren't going for 100%.
Posted January 2.
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3 people found this review helpful
1.2 hrs on record
Short and sweet - a unique and creepy game unlike any other liminal horror I've played. There were a few anomalies where I really got spooked. One of those games that will punish you if you try to rush things... take your time and it is a fun playthrough and 100%.
Posted November 29, 2024. Last edited November 29, 2024.
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16 people found this review helpful
4.8 hrs on record
This game doesn't oversell itself... it is a pile of dookie. But you probably know that already going in. I had a steam coupon for 75% off and snagged this game for .34 cents USD. It plays janky, it can be infuriating and hilarious in the same moments. Overall, I say it is worth it for less than a dollar. At the end of the day, I have payed more to play equally trashy arcade shooter games with quarters.

I bought this because it was super cheap, looked nostalgic, and seemed easy to 100% complete for achievements. It turned out to be all those things. Took me about 4.8 hours to finish everything in one run.

I think it is worth a play for achievement hunters and people who want to play some sort of poor graphic version of a stripped down Battlefield that slept with Gears of War and Spec Ops the Line. It is visually boring, and incredibly repetitive for the midsection of the game. I think there's a mission where you get in a car and then it crashes three separate times in a single mission.

Here are a few tips before you dive in:
- Friendly fire is OFF, so don't worry about spraying the hell out of West.
- If you are close enough to an enemy that you are "blind firing," just melee them. They WILL beat you up.
- Stay back from shotgun enemies, they are unforgiving.
- Try to follow the teammate as closely as possible. It's one of those games where they designed it to be played in a very specific way, and if you falter off path, you can easily get lost and never find the objective door.
- There is a fun Silenced variant of the UMP .45 on the mission with the guards in suits. Second floor.
- Save the UMP kill achievement for last, because you will end up using it for the last 4-5 missions of the game. It is the best overall, with high fire rate and great ammo capacity.
- You cannot do much while sprinting. Don't try to melee or swap weapons mid sprint, it won't register.
- If you drop some guns, they will disappear. Like swapping weapons. Especially the rocket launcher.

Good luck homies
Posted September 5, 2024. Last edited September 5, 2024.
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No one has rated this review as helpful yet
15.3 hrs on record
This game was a lot of fun! It is really true to the form of the film. Combat is fluid and engaging, with some over the top gore and explosive capability. There were also quite a few hilarious dialogue lines that caught me off guard and had me laughing.

The "free roam" portions in the city are kind of tedious, as you can only run so fast as a giant robot. It felt like they intentionally made the character slower than other games so that the quests aren't super fast.

The story was a lot of fun, even knowing pretty much what to expect after seeing the movie. From an achievement perspective, the majority of them come naturally and none of them are an annoying grind. Some of them take some research or premeditation, but I found it simple to wrap them all up in one playthrough.

As far as replay ability, this game is low on the scale for me. I probably won't ever play it again after playing through and enjoying it fully once.

I played this game entirely on Steam Deck, except for the purpose of getting one achievement (250+ on the shooting range) where I had to plug in a mouse and keyboard to make it happen. The game crashed 4-5 times total, and ended up freezing once, but overall it was pretty seamless on the Deck.
Posted November 24, 2023.
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9 people found this review helpful
30.3 hrs on record (29.9 hrs at review time)
Plot wise and physically, a timeless masterpiece with excellent replay ability. Would recommend to anyone and everyone who has not yet played it.
Posted November 27, 2016.
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58.3 hrs on record
Pretty good game! The story was good and fun, and it kept me engaged until the end.

Now, disregarding the story, I will describe it from an achievement hunter's perspective. Many of the achievements are unmissable and go along with the storyline. This covers the mission achievements as well as many of the ability ones.

With a little bit of time and persistence, all of the "do this 50 times" or "collect 20 whatevers" can be done easily.

The only hard ones were the distance achievements (I just rode the bike and ran around the courtyard for like 30 minutes IRL) and the playtime achievements.

The problem with the playtime achievements is that you have to be IN THE GAME. You can't leave it open and go to the internet, you can't even pause or sleep your pc or anything. You have to be actively standing in the game for 40 hours. I left it open overnight with the lowest quality settings running like twice and that took care of it.

Other than that, it was fairly easy to 100%, and it was enjoyable to play.



Posted February 8, 2016.
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