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Don't buy this game. Saber Porto abandoned it and will no longer develop fixes for it. Steam ought to de-list it from sale.

It's a shame because the gameplay is fairly solid, despite the fact the AI literally cheat in order to be competitive.

Mechs are slow, yet do not feel hefty. Guns have no punch and are boring.

Mouse sensitivity will break your neck even on lowest settings, and you can't use the mouse in the settings menu, KB/controller only.

Tutorial is over an hour and the NPCs won't shut up.

You're expected to only shoot foot mobiles; they cannot be stepped on.

You're also expected to shoot those tiny foot mobiles with guns that have terrible spread or high precision, making a lot of encounters needlessly long. I spent 90% of my earned Scrip on a grenade launcher schematic I was lucky enough to find, which made most encounters a lot more bearable, but took over an hour to do.

Originally I was mostly annoyed at the lack of PVP, but now I'm annoyed they revived the IP for this nonsense. It almost seems like a mobile game that 505 decided to adorn with a Hawken skin.

People will tell you "this isn't Hawken 2", but this isn't Hawken at all. It would've been better off as a Hybrid Wars clone, which I unironically enjoyed more than this.

G27 buttons on the steering wheel are unbindable. Clutch is totally unnecessary and you can just shove it into any gear at any RPM. Separate high/low range binds are pointless, and selecting the next range while you're in-gear makes you automatically be in whatever gear is in that gate.

Constant pop-ups in a tutorial are infuriating. Devs, go play or watch a video of the Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon tutorial, because you did something that annoying, but for real and not as a joke.

Who are you kidding with lessons 19 and 20?

I would love for there to be a real competitor to ATS/ETS2, and this looks mildly promising, but I'm not sold at all, especially with no headtracking support and with a totally unrealistic shifter layout.

UPDATE: I tried this again after the developers replied to this review.

Major kudos for the axis input wizard, seriously.

Almost all of the other issues I mentioned still are relevant, however.

I played and beat OG Crysis on Bauer/Delta difficulty on a Q6600 with an 8800GTS 512 and 4GB of RAM.

I also played OG Crysis on Bauer/Delta difficulty on my current rig before trying this remaster.

The AI in this remaster are broken; they are straight out of Far Cry 1 and will instantly spot you when you're uncloaked but fully behind cover.

Speaking of cloaking, you cannot use the classic nanosuit middle mouse control while crouched; you'll just stand up if you try, which is counter-productive and has gotten me spotted.

Pressing spacebar is how you get up from prone in Classic, but in this remaster you actually JUMP INTO THE AIR from the prone position, which is also counter-productive and has gotten me spotted.

Switching grenade types in Classic does not equip the grenade, you keep whatever is in your hands; in the remaster, switching grenade type puts the grenades into your hands, which has gotten me killed.

Most of the "rethought" controls are nonsensical and directly conflict with the flow of the game.

You can't even manually save your progress like you could in Classic, you just have to deal with autosave points. The only noticeable improvements in this remaster are higher texture resolutions, greater draw distance, parallax occlusion mapping, and tessellation.

If you can find a cd key somewhere for the original Crysis, just get that and look up the advanced launch options to run it on multicore rigs. Classic still looks absolutely fantastic and mods take it to the next level.

You need Epic Games Launcher now to play this game.

♥♥♥♥ Epic, they'll never get a cent from me and I'll never use their platform.

Full disclosure, I am a VERY casual railfan.

I bought this game to play with steam engines, and damn if it doesn't deliver.

You get a sweet little porter loco right away, and it dumps you straight into its "RUST meets Railroad Tycoon meets Spintires/Snowrunner" world.

If you wreck? You don't get a "your scenario has ended" pop-up with a trip back to the main menu; you live with your consequences, and you have to fix them.

Do you know how many other games are out there where you can build your own railroad track and then drive a practically study-level train on it? I don't think there are any besides this and the other game these devs made.

The best part though? You can have your friends help build your mega projects, or you can just try to kill them like an old timey villain.

That's all way more than I can say for Train Sim World (STILL doesn't have steam locos) or Train Sim 20XX, which has DLC that doesn't even work anymore (really AAA material).

The devs have a really ambitious "tech tree" of ~ 80 upcoming trains, and they say this game's getting Steam Workshop support at some point.

Standard early access warnings for this title apply, with plenty of rough edges, the bare minimum of UI, and a smattering of bugs.

Honestly, though, this is worth every penny.

As someone who owned HP2010 on PC originally, this remaster is extremely welcome.

All DLC that never made it to PC is included

Improved visuals

Multiplayer is revived and has crossplay

Improved car color picker with custom options (it has RGB values you can select!)

The cars sound incredible; Forza and Gran Turismo, eat your heart out


3 "missing" cars (Carbon Motors E7, Stirling Moss SLR McLarens)

60FPS hard cap

No wheel support


Carbon Motors went bankrupt, so there's no way to license that vehicle. Additionally, Stirling Moss died earlier this year, and I doubt his estate is licensing vehicles with his name for use anywhere right now

I'm betting the 60FPS cap is due to FPS-bound physics; this was an issue with newer NFS titles, as well

Nobody seems to remember that HP2010 originally shipped with either no wheel support, or it was extremely lacking. This was later remedied.

With all that out of the way, would I recommend this game?

Yes.

Is it worth $30 USD?

Probably, but that's your choice. I know I pre-ordered it because HP2010 was the last NFS I actually played, and I don't regret the purchase at all.

I've seen a number of reviews saying the following:

No reverse, color palettes limited for each car to each driver's palette selection, cannot drift two consecutive turns, poor controller support, and bad voice acting

Well, there's reverse, you can use any driver's color palette on any car (there's even a special palette section with solid colors), you can drift as many turns as you want as long as you're going fast enough and the car is capable of it, my 360 controller worked with no issues, and the voice acting is spot on for this kind of game; it doesn't take itself seriously, and some of the drivers lean heavily on pop culture references.

This is a fun game, well worth the $20, and plays/looks better than an emulated Sega Rally or Daytona.