Recent reviews by Cray

trash.
-removed from steam
-new 3rd party launcher/anticheat added
-features 'seasons' bs
-has 'battle pass' system you can pay for

imagine buying your toddler a puzzle and it comes with seasons and a battle pass to find the pieces you need in reasonable time. then starting next week it also requires a login to use.

this is why i'm not buying games any more. purchases provide no ownership nor guarantees.

just don't pay for games, people.

Bestest shooter / tower defense hybrid I know. It's fun, it's flashy, it's cool looking, you're cool, everything's cool.
Map design, sound effects, music, voices, art style, graphics, it's all done very well and combines into a game that's just.. a lot of fun to play.

You have an array of cool weapons to unlock, and ditto traps. You're also totally free to choose a playstyle. If you don't want to rely heavily on traps, you can go with projectile or melee weapons, or you can go full no-touch mastermind and use only traps and maneuvering, this is left up to you in the most organic way possible - you just pick the equipment you prefeer at the start of the round and that's it.

It also beats Orcs Must Die 3, which is ok, but can't quite compare to its predecessor.

There's some mouse acceleration, which becomes noticable if you're playing with high DPI. Not a game breaker, but can be a little annoying to get used to.

Wish it had workshop/addon support :F If it did it would become the stuff of legends.

meh. Kinda fun, but doesn't quite capture the magic of its predecessor. Sound/music/effects/looks/animations just don't feel right, lack oomph, lack pizz'ass. It's ok, but OMD2 is way more entertaining. This nerfs all the fun stuff and tries to force a particular playstyle (less focus on traps and tower defense, more running around shooting). War scenarios had promise, but they don't seem well enough thought through, so you usually end up grinding everything in a tight space inside and ignoring what's outside.

Also lacks ingame text chat, basic lobby control features, etc. Stuff that could've been easily implemented, but they're too lazy to add even after years of requests.

Doesn't quite seem right to recommend it when OMD2 is still available and shines at what it does.

A gem of the genre with some fun quirky humor. Works perfectly on linux as it does on windows.

The music's really cool, the levels are fairly numerous and varied, and the same can be said for the enemies, characters and weapons. It's got good gameplay and game mechanics, and of course it also appears to be rock solid and bug free, haven't had a single issue.

Visually nice, and somehow manages to also stay visually manageable even when there's a ton of action, which is something a lot of games can't get right. You know where you are and where to go and what to get at all times.

And the way it plays is pretty engaging, you have to stay active to stay alive and recharge your battery, which gives it a good kind of tension. It offers a fair challenge, too.

After I started playing, I couldn't stop, had to finish the whole thing. Then I went to unlock new weapons and play the infinity drive mode, which I still pick up to play from time to time years after finishing the game.

Really love this, it's both fun and pretty, and a very replayable thing to come back to.

Fantastic game. Feature complete, great artwork, incredibly detailed and full of content. Super fun to play, rewarding, and it keeps you playing. Replayable by design, and very much so. It's also properly developed; I've played for 86 hours, not a single bug on linux or windows. Not even a glitch.

They've put a lot of effort, planning and straight up creative work into this, and it shows.

Additional points for:
+no dlcs bs, you get the game and you have everything, and it's darn good.
+you don't need a powerful system to play it, almost any old box will do, but it looks great.

Rarely been this pleased with a game. The people making this really know what they're doing, and prove that you can still make great games without involving nonsense.

Fantastic lot of action packed fun with great graphics that hold up well. If you ever wanted to live in a reality defying, but still entertaining action movie, this game is likely for you. Think; Michael Bay Movie: The Game. Except better.

Amazingly, it wraps a huge and varied world with a ton of equipment, NPCs, buildings, nature and landscape, all sorts of vehicles (ground, water and air) and huge landscapes into a mere 5GB of disk space. Compared to modern games it's puzzling that so much, done so well, can fit into such a small size, but it does.

This open world 3rd person shooter is a classic, and one of those games that make you think "man, it's hard to believe this was released in 2010" (14 years ago now).

As with any good open world game, you can go anywhere pretty much right off the bat, steal and hijack anything and do whatever you want. You're rewarded with progress for blowing stuff up and causing mayhem, to the point that it's a requirement (but not a grindy one) that you blow things up to progress the story. Any self respecting gamer will meet the quota simply by following their instincts.

As mentioned, the graphics are great, and performance is good despite being a console port (I even thought it performed well back in 2011). It will fly seamlessly on max settings on any modern rig, and even works flawlessly on Linux, possibly with a minor adjustment required (check protondb.com for the protontricks tweak if it doesn't work out of the box).

Gameplay wise, you have your trusty grappling hook, great for messing with stuff, and combined with your ever available parachute it's also a fun and flexible way to get around in the world. Controls are quite good, very customizable, and you have loads of equipment and weapons at your disposal, and no shortage of enemies and bases to seek out.

My only real misgiving about the game is the (fixable) negative mouse acceleration, which becomes very noticeable on some sensitivity settings. This can be eliminated with the "Just Cause 2 mouse acceleration fix".
I can't post the link, but you'll find it by searching (the one I got checked clean on virustotal.com as of sept 2024 with hash 1414c41b3aa53d9828eba0bb550011ae2aba2f3b043c9d3d0627fe966aef24b6).

There is also a slight auto-aim, but you can override it, and it doesn't interfere much anyway. Even though I have FPS type flick preferences in general, this one doesn't bother me noticeably.

Fun, huge world, good graphics, small disk size, lots of gameplay hours and good replay value. Well worth the price.

Great concept & fantastic combat with an unstable engine.
Bought this for myself and several friends because I thought it was just such a great idea. Underwhelmed.

The good:

+great combat, atmosphere and concept
+the story is pretty engaging
+big world
+very good looking
+lots of customizations and content
+great audio, models, lighting and visual design
+they're active and still update it as of 2024
+they added new content and free dlc for those who bought the base game

The bad:

-buggy since launch
-still lots of bugs after 5 years
-crashes a lot

Examples:

-Crashes. Game just straight up dies out of the blue, randomly, every now and then. Autosave or not, it's especially annoying in multiplayer.
-Robots randomly disappear, just vanishing into thin air during combat or after dying.
-Follower unreliably engaging enemies, many times it will just stand there and do nothing, regardless of whether you attack the enemy or the enemy attacks the follower.
-Follower kills you. It teleports while running, quite often, and sometimes comes crashing into you at full speed, sending you flying to die from fall damage.
-Desync in multiplayer. You see a dead enemy, your teammate does not. You hear it making noises, your teammate doesn't. etc.

There's more, but these are the ones I've personally experienced often. The devs are updating and patching the game, that should be said. From what I can see, though, it's still a bit of a "too little, too late" thing. Users also report that updates have broken something else several times.

And the DLC racks up to about 3x the base game price. Pretty hefty when the base game isn't properly finished.

The game is now ~5 years old, and still has several unfixed issues. Console and PC players alike are reporting bugs and crashes as of 2024.

It's been released as a 'working product', and several fairly big DLCs have been released for it since. I'm sure they're great, but it doesn't hold up to release new content before the base game people paid for is working properly. Yes, making a big, complex open world game with multiplayer is hard, no doubt about it, but if that's what you're selling you need to make sure you're living up to it. It's really that simple, at least when you've had years to get it right by now.

I've played this on windows and linux. It works on both, and it features bugs on both. Searching various forums reveals a pretty steady trickle of bugs ever since the game launched, from players on pc, playstation and xbox. It seems like if you have just the right hardware and system, you'll be fine. Some people have no issues except, maybe, a few minor bugs and some known issues that won't crash it. If you're on one of the problematic systems however, you're out of luck.

I could endure some bugs, that's to be expected I guess, but not more than a few of them, and not when some are so game breaking. I'd even be generous enough to let it mature for a year or two if it was broken at start, but I think it has passed that limit by now.

It's a very good looking game built on a unique and awesome idea, I've had a lot of fun in it when it worked right, but after a while it gets tiresome because something could go wrong at any moment, and it breaks the immersion. Fighting a high level enemy for minutes only to watch it and the loot disappear right before/as you kill it, being launched to your death by your companion, or simply seeing the game freeze up and crash to desktop - this gets old after a while, and you just lose interest in the game. 85 hours in plus some unregistered offline time, I've just about given up on this even though I want to finish the story. It's just no fun when it's this unreliable.

Too bad. At this rate I guess it'll be a stable, playable game somewhere at the 10 year anniversary mark. If they learn to fix what's broken before making more, that is.

Doesn't even launch, just goes "not logged into steam" and crashes.

Neh.

so bad they gave me a refund and this link:
https://steamproxy.com/steamstore/app/440/Team_Fortress_2/

"hi sorry you hate our game because we suck, but here's the game we copied overwatch from instead, try it. ps we have no souls and our eyes are dimly lit."

Technically a great game, but requires uplay signup. Uplay signup is broken, so the game is unplayable. Can't even launch it. In addition, if you do manage to launch it, you'll have to work around a "blood dragon servers unavailable" error. Thanks a lot, ubisoft, you broke a perfectly good game.

Played it when it was new. Used to work just fine back in the day, until the idiots publishing this had the bright idea to try and become a steam store clone. They retroactively added uplay as a game requirement and broke it. Sorry ubiguys, you're not steam and you never will be, you're just ♥♥♥♥.

If you can be bothered with yet another single purpose account signup, can make uplay work, and can endure a few issues, then this is a good game, or even a great game if you like 80's, retrowave and old school scifi.