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11 people found this review helpful
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3.9 hrs on record
Early Access Review
While the game had a lot of hype, controversy and following; the delivery fell short. The "random building/neighborhood" generator which promises each play through to be different than the last is a novelty that gets old quick. The AI is brutal and sometimes outright ridiculous with reaction times and volume of enemies. There's not much of a player population to speak of which for a game that requires teammates; is a bit of a death knell for replay-ability and survivability if you try to play on your own. There's no Campaign; and the missions that are available once you've played them a time or two; show you just about all the game has to offer. The voip is also a neat feature; allowing your open microphone to be your players voice and then a radio to long range communicate with teammates. Until someone on your team has a lot of background noise or other people in thier home. It takes a bit out of the immersion to hear someones wailing baby from their voicebox.
Posted October 16, 2024.
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104.8 hrs on record (55.6 hrs at review time)
This is the most fun in gaming ive had in years.
Posted March 19, 2024.
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4 people found this review helpful
61.3 hrs on record (42.2 hrs at review time)
This latest entry in the CoH series is such a deviation from what made it beloved. Gone are the narrative driven SP campaigns, and replaced with a Turn based, Map based Campaign where you "skirmish" with Grandma Conti across the same 4-5 scenarios over and over and over again until you get a "story mission" that is slightly different.

MP is Alright, and the only reason I keep playing. We'll see how long that lasts.
Posted July 20, 2023.
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85.6 hrs on record (22.8 hrs at review time)
Early Access Review
The spiritual sucessor to the SWAT Franchise. As it continues its development cycle Ready or Not has grown from untextured levels and buggy mechanics on the initial alpha release to what has become a very well thought out and methodical tactical shooter.

My only complaint is I cant get my friends to play it more often.
Posted January 7, 2023.
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813.9 hrs on record (288.7 hrs at review time)
This is my favorite paradox title. Its a little difficult to get the hang of with all of the different mechanics and statistics; but its super fun once you get into it.
Posted November 20, 2020.
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28.5 hrs on record
Ive played the Metro Series since its release of 2033 in 2010; And in my opinion, this has been the weakest in the series. The 6 year gap between Last Light and Exodus didnt really do it much justice. The story was why I played all the way though; but it was honestly a chore. The AI driving the enemies is just awful. Humutants never were more than a passing annoyance that most of the time I just ignored them; watchmen? you can straight up sprint by them and they dont even notice you. Same with BogShrimp. Bandit/Human AI? Laughable. They cannot fight you in any reasonable manner. Not using cover; missing wildly or just making nonsensical breaks from the few times they did use cover to just sprint out into the open for me to shoot them. In the Tiaga level; I straight up walked into the pirate camp; and non stealth melee killed the entire camp just to see if I could. I encountered numerous gamebreaking bugs, such as the camera locking when I opened a map while driving in the Caspian sea level, camera pov failing to shift once I got into the boat in the Volga and occurred again in the Dead City that required reloads or outright desktop crashes upon reaching an autosave checkpoint, which would "corrupt" the save require a reload of a previous save file. I manually quicksaved often because I crashed more than 10 times at checkpoints. I love the story of metro and the setting, the worldbuilding that has been put into this post WW3 world; Artyom and Anna's story captured me and pushed me though to the conclusion and I would love to see more; but there really needs to be some under the hood work done to (hopefully) the next title in the series.
Posted June 30, 2020.
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