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A good, solid, fast-paced shooter that rewards you for fast reflexes and creative thinking, while pummelling you if you dare to play it like Call of Duty. A very nice change of pace from the usual slop that dominates the FPS genre. Short and sweet, never outstays it's welcome. Total playtime is how long it took me to finish the game and go back to mop up any achievements I missed

10 Years on Steam and still not finished.. good Lord in Heaven

Kino

As of writing this, I have completed every storyline except for the Horde Killer storyline, and I can safely say that this game is the most fun in an Open World I have had in quite a while. It is not perfect of course, so we'll start with the cons

Cons:
- Being a Sony game, it has this annoying habit of giving you maybe 2 seconds of freedom before taking the reins and putting you in another cutscene immediately after your last one. This is a problem with most of Sony’s ‘third person over the shoulder cinematic action games’ and unfortunately, Days Gone suffers from the same issue

- With the way the storylines work, weapons that would have been cool hours ago are obsolete by the time you get them, making the ‘reward’ for completing some storylines fall pretty flat

- The forced stealth missions where you trail NERO for O'Brien are incredibly annoying, but mercifully they’re short enough to avoid too much groaning

- Open World activities like the NERO checkpoints and Marauder Camps can get a bit repetitive, though fortunately you never HAVE to do them with a handful of exceptions, and there’s enough to do elsewhere that you can always go back to them later.

Pros:
- Deacon is an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, but not to the point of being intolerable. He is far from a hero, and does some outright villainous things throughout the story, but never to the point of becoming irredeemable or ‘going disney’. He walks the line and lives in shades of grey, and it’s a joy to watch him change over the course of the game

- Speaking of Deacon, Sam Witwer

- Speaking of writing, the writing for this game maintains a fairly consistent high in regards to quality, albeit with a few eye roll moments and plot twists one can see from a mile away.

- The game performs well, unlike some of Sony’s more recent PC Ports. Never had a crash or a bug my whole playthrough.

- The bike, the main transport for a good 90% of the game handles well, and is a genuine joy to upgrade and modify over the course of the game. I actually found myself picking bike upgrades over new guns, which is almost unheard of for me.


Overall, Days Gone is a deeply enjoyable games, albeit in typical Sony fashion, probably priced too high. It’s a steal right now (On sale for AUD $24.73) though, the usual $75 is probably too steep for me. $50, or even $60 is much more palatable, and well worth the investment.

A really great game that is sadly dead. Games peaks at about 15 players globally. Maybe Sseth or someone like him will make a video one day and give it a second chance, but as it stands it's just a waste of money to buy a game you can't play

If you listen closely you can hear all the back-patting the writers were doing when they made this slop

First thing's first: Xen is way too long, both in terms of individual chapter length and overall length. That being said? Xen is still very good, and especially gorgeous.. it just could have benefited from some fat trimming.

With the elephant in the room addressed, we can move onto the rest of the game. Put quite simply, it's nothing short of remarkable what they've done with Half Life, taking a 20+ year game and modernising it without turning it into Corpo Slop is a tall order, and I'd say it's one the team have fulfilled incredibly. An (almost) perfect balance has been struck between old and new, so much so that Black Mesa offers both a wonderful treat to long time Half Life fans, as well as a great jumping in point for people who've never played a Half Life game before.

The "Overwhelmingly Positive" rating speaks for itself, do yourself a favour and pick it up.

Honestly, as much as I loved the base game I can't recommend this DLC, especially at Full Price. As other have already mentioned, it's very short (Maybe 3 or so hours to 100% it), doesn't come with any new weapons, enemies, augs or tacticals (with the exception of 2 melee weapons which are, admittedly pretty nice) but what it does come loaded with, is bugs.

BUGS
BUGS
BUGS

I cannot remember a single CTD in the base game, but with Cyber Heist? I had at least half a dozen during it's short playthrough. The worst part though? Those aren't even the worse. That would be the bug with the last boss, causing them to either A) Not spawn at all or B) Soft Lock you after beating them. Even without the BRUTAL difficulty spike this would have been a massive issue to deal with, but combine that with the enormous difficulty spike in the last section of the DLC and it just leads me to have a real bad taste in my mouth after finishing what I'd hoped would be a DLC that did the main game justice.

Buy it for $5 on sale if you're really hungry for more of The Ascent, or just play New Game+ and save yourself the money.

Graphical Fidelity is apparently improved, though the only difference I've noted is better lighting + shadows and better facial animation for the main cast. As far as remasters go, it's extremely unremarkable

Worth it if you can get it during a good sale and you don't own the Original Game + BTS. Otherwise, you may as well use the money as cigarette paper.

As most of the other reviews have stated, Below Zero fails to live up to the high quality of the original. The story is less interesting (with the exception if your alien passenger), the atmosphere is all but absent, the world is more linear and more empty at the same time, and the game is more messy as a result. Is it a bad game? Absolutely not, but the original is vastly superior in every way to the point there's no reason to play this one over the original in a scenario where you'd have to choose between the two. Worth it at half price or below, but certainly not at full price. It was supposed to be a DLC for the original and it shows. Buy it at DLC price, not full game price