Recent reviews by Dagrond

Well, decided to reinstall and give it another go. Played all the way through from start to finish in one sitting.
Good story, no bugs, not a fan of the respawns but knew they were coming so it didn't actually but me.
Was gonna complain about the ending but it wasn't actually the real credits - played for another hour before it was done. Good ending afterall.

Def buy, especially on sale.
ORIGINAL REVIEW RETRACTED
Compelling but the game-advancement is annoying. Everything re-spawning all the time in a single player game is just tedious at best. If you like killing stuff over and over again, go for it.

I finally feel like I'm not being ripped off by a gaming company again.

Absolute disappointment. Can't figure why this is rated positive at all. Just a bunch of endless dialogue drivel and interrupted cut scene insertions so you can't actually play the game.

Got friends that love this. Can't stand the physics myself.

Haven't played this after finishing it when it first came out. Tried to play it today and it just chokes on the keyboard inputs - trying to be a controller game. Totally munted UI now. What was great is now garbage. Maybe they will fix it with the upcoming update. Doubt it.

What kind of a moron makes a driving game that doesn't support the most common wheels in existence? EA.

It's unfinished and the things they do in updates have yet to bring this to a release level. Game-play is poor, leaving out FSX features. Base airplanes held back so they could up-sell you later. They ones you do get are poorly flushed out, missing functionality, and/or have incomplete check-lists. 100GB needed to actually run this and the internet footprint that it makes is massive. What a huge disappointment for what - in its day - was the shining example of technology in computers.
I would look into competitors like xPlane and such. I'm stuck with my purchase, don't make the same mistake.

Every time I start liking this game, it does something to tick me off. It has redeeming qualities and they pulled off some pretty nice technical advancements to make this all happen. Its not enough however. I've been trying to play it through calmly forever. Quit for two years. Thought I'd try again.

It's always something else though. Hitching graphics, t-pose AI running around, flat out bugs, goofy UI that is hard to navigate and use, always something. Then, I find out that there is absolutely no way to skip dialogue and cut scenes, so when you get in a spot where you have to restart a mission, you have to go through all that slow, meandering, delay-filled conversations that you no longer care about.

I wouldn't recommend buying this even on discount. It will just make you salty.

Update: Tried to play it again and see if the updates improved things. Turns out it won't even start now because my second card that I use for the other monitor doesn't do ray tracing. Nice job. Hot garbage on a new level.

Update 1.5yrs later:
Tried to play it again and see if the updates improved things. Turns out it won't even start now because my second card that I use for the other monitor doesn't do ray tracing. Nice job. Hot garbage on a new level.

It is as bad as Far Cry 5, the one redeeming feature being that it is shorter. Stupid boss battle at the end. Trite. Seriously poor plot. At least they came to their collective senses in Far Cry 6. Go play that. You won't miss a thing with these two junkers.

I thought I liked this, but during the free weekend I just got a bunch of arcade driving experiences. I guess if you have a controller and a few hours to kill its OK.