You're a shooter bro being tricked into playing only the worst parts of an MMO.

It gives the impression it may be like a Borderlands game, but you don't get any of the fun story or interesting characters. There is a lot of NPC dialogue (including from playable characters), though they all feel soulless. Skippable cutscenes are a huge plus. As far as gameplay goes, yes!, the characters are very different and interesting. Abilities are very meaningful and change the way you play. Movement in every game can feel different, but the movement here is oddly unsatisfying. Generous movement abilities and ample fast travel points make traversing the world very painless.

Outside of the primary gameplay that you will be doing for at least the first few dozen hours, there are hoard-style missions where you defend against waves of enemies, and there are "colossus" boss battles. This seems to be most exciting part of the game and the goal for building your characters. I can tell a lot of work has gone into the colossi specifically in making them unique and memorable.

However, ultimately you will be spending the vast majority of your time running around essentially slaying endless waves of mindless goblins. It's an MMO for the elfphobic. You're being force-fed slay, fetch, and escort quests, and while it may be marginally more interesting to go collect 5 shiny components than to go collect 5 chicken eggs, you will find yourself grinding your face away at the exact same collect, fetch, and slay quests again, and again, and again. You most do this to farm a fat stack of materials for crafting or buying items, or worse, to get that one special drop from the 1.5% drop rate. Yes that's right, they at least tell you the drop rates, but you can see you need X shiny thing so you can expect to run this 15m mindless quest 100 times to get your one shiny. Oh wait, you actually needed 4 of them. Get to work.

But fear not, they have made it as soul-crushing as possible to grind these meaningless pixels to make it that much more enticing to just BUY what you need with that sweet, sweet USD. I think it's like 10 bucks to skip a 12 hour grind for a standard character, and it is over $50 to buy an "Ultimate" character. What's an "Ultimate" character? It's a copy of an existing character that is just better in every way. Why would you play the normie version, peasant? Another tactic to make you feel bad about a character you like and to know it'll never be optimal unless you put in the grind or the cash.

But what if you like the grind?? Back to it being the worst parts of an MMO. You have the micro transactions that are shoved in your face and the endless grind of materials on the same missions, but you don't get the redeeming factors. There is not character customization outside of the store items that can only be purchased with IRL monies, so you will be going through the fields next to 14 other players all playing a character named "Bunny" and they all look exactly like you. Spending money on skins is fine and a great way to support the developers, but that's the ONLY way to have any character expression in a game where players are meant to play cooperatively and interact. Maybe I've hit the skip too often, but there are some unskippable cutscenes as well, and I have to say I have never cared about a story less. Evil space guy uses evil space magic to make a master race or something. Let's kill everyone that doesn't look like us. Hmmm. At least for me, there are no stories or interesting characters or even waifus to salvage the slog.

Also I have a non-standard keyboard and I rebind my keys for every game. For every shooter game I play, my reload is on "Y" (where T is on querty). I cannot bind anything to "Y". Why? Having certain keys unusable is really terrible.

If taking down the epic bosses with the crew is appealing, then you may like this game. If slavery and being paid nothing to work for hours on end seems like a cool way to spend a Sunday, this game is what you need!

This game would be cool if it was on PS2.
It feels like a PS2 game. It looks like a PS3 game. It wants to run through your wallet like an Activision Blizzard Game.

Seriously though, it's a grind and sometimes we just want that mindless grind to wind down and work toward something achievable. It's much much better with friends, and the quests are open world so you're rarely doing anything alone anyway. But make no mistake, this game is at it's core a grind for the sake of grinding and still making you feel like you didn't grind nearly enough. That's the point. That's the business model. It HAS to be painful for the purchases to make sense. So to play devil's advocate, do you want 12 hours of your life, or $10? Obviously 12 hours. BUT, now what? It's just a jumping off point for MORE GRIND, then the same question is presented again. The best way to play this game is with your wallet, and that should make you question if you are really even playing a game at all.... or are YOU the game that is being played.

Any money you spend here will be missed this time next year.

Absolute banger. I have bought 12 copies for the gang. 100% approval rate. It's highly recommended you play with 4, 6, or 8 players. It'll be a featured game in a tournament I'm running this years, so it's great to see the new updates!

Bubbly and refreshing.

This game is based on the "what if" scenario in which some poor individual is tasked with cleaning up the messes the protagonist of a violent FPS or fighter game leaves behind. In Viscera Cleanup Detail: Shadow Warrior, it is your job to clean up the spilled blood as well as to incinerate the left-over body parts, weapons, and debris, from a previous battle whilst searching for wads of cash amongst the carnage. This game is good for a quick laugh if you can tolerate the game's gore-saturated humor, and the two achievements the game offers are very challenging. As the game exists primarily as a joke, it is quite shallow; there is only one level to play, and there is little replay value. Overall, I believe the game is enjoyable and accomplishes what it set out to do.