Recent reviews by Alfanz

Good arcade racing game with dumb achievements.

Good game, good story with a bit of diversity in the end. Still has a few minor bugs that might be a little troublesome but nothing big. The game only has one thing that is beyond stupid and that is the infected animation, first time it's great, 10th time yeah ok, 50th time omg get me out, 100th time Is that really necessary!?

Interesting game with diferent mechanics and hardcore elements tied to it, like no kill feed, no hit confirmation, no health bars, etc...
Might be hard to start, because it has lots of things to do and it's a complex game overall, but eventually you will get the hang of it. It also has a nice community than tends to help newby players.
My biggest complaint is the line of fire, it could get a little tweaks, and it's hard getting used to.
Overall it's a great game and I recommend it.

New World lost 97% of its peak player base and unfortunately, that says a lot. Currently with max 30k players daily. Despite all the gold and item duplication bugs during the first months of the game I kept playing, but every week there is a new bug, there is a new thing to annoy the ♥♥♥♥ out of you. I can resume the last 3 weeks for you:
- Wars started to lag like crazy, it's like a black hole, near the glob there is massive lag, you can't do skills, you can't trade weapons, if you try to leave you get rubberbanded inside again, loop, nonstop.
Fast forward one week: my server got new players due to server transfers and started to have 1k queue taking up to 2h and half hours to login. Since the server only allows 2k players each time. For that 1000th person to log in, half of the current players need to leave the server.
Last week: trying to respawn in wars on the defending side makes you go into an infinite loading because they are close to the "black hole" lags and it seems that it also affects respawns.
This makes that people are always trying to exploit the new week bug, getting heavy gear with 500Constitution(max HP) trying to stay alive on point in the "black hole" lag. Other people started doing turret build, where you place a turret on the ground, it is considered an NPC and isn't affected by the lag giving you constant damage since no one can do ♥♥♥♥ while lagging.
Progressing in the game is only dungeon related, so you need to have a close group of friends to grind through the hard content, unless you want to try your luck "League of Legends style" where everyone blames everyone for failing the dungeon.
Outpost rush (20vs20) also lags frequently making it unpleasant to play.
Crafting is funny at the beginning but it gets very "grindy" and unfun, where you need that perfect item to upgrade through the dungeons. The materials are time gated. Every week you can craft like new 5-10 items, on a range of 595-600GS, If it's not 600GS you can scratch that. Even if you get 600GS you need good perks or it will suck. If you are not lucky this week try farming on your hungry full server for new materials and better luck next week. If you duped gold and items on the first months this steps are easier...
At this point it's not worth unless you take a really casual approach and don't participate in any end game activity.
---30/10/2022 UPDATE---
Quests are bugged and don't complete when you do the objectives, after 2weeks of Brimstone Sands is out there are still problems with the main story line not completing and not letting you progress. After 1200+hours It's my time to throw the towel.

You travel around a bunch of islands, and the zombies are pretty much infinite, you clear an area and travel back and guess what there are more zombies. You clear the whole island and when you get back to the start there are more zombies. And when you have to clear a safe zone they just pop up from the ground, lol. Dispite being the same zombies they take more hits to kill while you are doing the main quest. So even if you upgrade your weapons you are still at ground 0. It's an upgrade but it's not really an upgrade. The dialogues are so boring, you have to sit there waiting for all that dialogue pauses and NPC laughs and cofs and you can skip them. Nice concept, poorly executed.

I recommend this game for 5€, but it's not an amazing game. Movement has some issues, it's like your toon is always walking on ice, making it really hard to avoid fire traps. If you are into achivements I will let you know that they make you play blackjack against a cheating dealer, and the achievement is "The casino guy cheats", it might be funny until you waste more than 1 hour griding the minigame losing constantly.
Chose Hard dificulty and managed to complete the game in 3hours, the blackjack parade was the other hour.

It has taken a few steps away from the classic assassin's creed games and a few steps closer to a RPG adventure game. You no longer kill enemies with a simple stab in the back, it is still possible but is more dificult for you to do that. Just like Origins, it has lots of content to explore and enjoy. You now explore the ancient greece and it adds a fresh look to the series. I am really enjoying the game so far, despite not liking a think or two. Mostly the combat where a bunch of enemies can attack you through each other leading to some angering deaths.
9/10 Awesome game.

One of the best AC games.
It will be strange to play at first because a lot of things change, especially if you just played syndicate or other title.
Feels a lot like an RPG, with levels, "perks" and damage numbers.
Eagle vision is a lot different, it will take time to get used to.
The most crazy part are the controls (gamepad), fortunately there is an option to change them to the default of the series (Some actions are still different).

Recommend

Hard as a mother ♥♥♥♥♥. I reached the end of the crypt of the necrodancer.