MrBrown wrote:Let us know what you think when you have had a chance to play with it for a bit. Was tempted but the reviews have put me off a bit. Cheers Photek.
The reviews have been polarising at best, some sites slate the game while others give it 7's and 8's. I played an hour and a half lastnight and I only went off after some mates invited me to play FIFA. I'd put it at an 8 right now, without giving away spoilers, the story isn't as mysterious as you may think, within the first 30mins you are more or less told how buildings are in the planet you just landed on, albeit crash landed.
I love the Audio, it has incidental music that comes and goes and in between when out in the open you'll hear just the wind and some rocks maybe falling about, its much like ICO in the audio deparment. The gameplay so far is basic, you get a wee jet pack that gets upgraded for longer jumps but apart from that its just walking about.
It has audio files and logs, oddly, the ones you make yourself are interesting enough but the voice of your character will only read out loud the first line and you have to read the rest, the ones you find out on the planet are entirely in Russian but you read them in english but they say the entire thing in russian, again this is explained early on.
There's still a lot to discover but all clues are leading to a certain conclusion but ive still most of the game to go. It's very linear but thats not a bad thing in my book. If you want to walk about a beautiful world and constructions then this is a great game, the whole investigating of what happened on the planet keeps me going, I want to see more of whay this world has to show me. Special mention to the dark places where you use your torch, the lighting is exceptional casting shadows of everthing.