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Even though I'm an enormous fan of the TDU series, I simply cannot recommend Solar Crown at the moment. There are some very good things here, and I am looking forward to where the updates and seasons will bring it, but the bad things overweigh the good at the moment.

The Good:
- Driving physics. The hardest thing to get right, and they did it very well. Driving is great fun and there is an in depth tuning system to adjust how the cars feel. The game is arcadey, but has a realistic sprinkle on top.
- Car sounds. Cars sound amazing, dare I say best in class without overdoing it.
- Map. While WAY smaller than what TDU maps should be, this one has more detailed than previous entries and the roads are fun to drive on.

The Bad:
- Progression. Even though there is the classic "starting from the bottom", progression is tedious. Cars are very expensive and you need to do the same races over again multiple times to earn enough money for new cars. In TDU2 you had the Solar Crown cup and championships, which after you won those, would give you a lot of money. With this you could buy new cars in higher classes. Championships and Cups are completely missing in TDU Solar Crown. You're just doing random races.
- AI. It's all over the place. Either they are extremely slow or extremely fast. No in between. There is also no difficulty slider, the game chooses what difficulty of AI you're getting.
- Balancing. Each class has one car that's just completely overpowered compared to the rest. Spent your hard earned money on the wrong supercar? Bad luck, now you need to grind millions to buy the correct one.
- Graphics. They are very inconsistent. The game can go from dropdead gorgeous to PS2 graphics in the blink of an eye. Performance is also very bad and settings like DLSS do not work correctly.
- No houses. One of the corner stones of TDU, and now it's missing completely and replaced by a lifeless hotel. You seem to be able to own an unlimited amount of vehicles. While in the original games you needed to expand your garage space by buying new houses over the map.
- Lifeless. The city is dead, there are almost no pedestrians and no traffic.
- Always "Online". In my time of playing I have only had a race with ONE person. The rest was all AI, it's just not working at all.
- Reused assets. I get that the studio is small, but it seems like more than half of the car list consists of cars from TDU2. The interiors have been redone to bring them up to modern standards, but why didn't they spend that time working on completely new cars, instead of cars from 2009-2010?

I'm sure there are more things, but this is what came up in my mind so far. Again, I am not trying to hate on the developers, I'm happy that there is new life in the series, but it needs to have significant improvements made.

There is a lot of potential here and will follow the game closely to see how it develops over time.

Probably my favorite AC game after the Ezio trilogy. Unity has the most "Assassin" feeling of them all. The controls are a little wonky at times, but it's still worth playing.

Great looking environments, but overall lacking in fun content. Playing through the DLC feels like a chore and the enemies are damage sponges. Not fun at all.

I have not played AC: Valhalla yet, but I have a feeling it is the same useless filler content.

Great sequel, it starts off one year after the events of Metro 2033 and continues the story in a great way.

This game has been in my library for ages, but never played it because I don't like horror at all.

Now I have finally played it and I wish I had done it sooner! Great story, very good stealth mechanics and the atmosphere is one of the best I've seen. Some moments are creepy but it's not too bad.

These were some of the hardest choices I ever had to make in a game, got me second guessing myself constantly... This is right up there with the best expansions I have ever played and makes Cyberpunk 2077 even better than it already was.

10/10.

I started off really loving this game. But after 160 hours of playtime, reaching Level 100 and doing NG+ a couple of times, Starfields issues become very clear.

The first playthrough was a lot of fun, lots of content and an engaging open world to explore. It did have its issues already, but I didn't mind them since the general gameplay was fun.

The problem started with NG+. I wanted to play through the game with totally different story outcomes, but sadly I came to the conclusion that this game offers no meaningful choices whatsoever. Nothing you do matters in the long term, this game is set in a world where you're just an NPC living in it.

Quest lines are also very mediocre, I can probably count the amount of "wow"-moments on one hand. Now, Bethesda never was great at this, but I feel like these were even less exciting than their previous games.

Then there's the annoying laggy UI and pointless loading screens. Take Akila City for instance, half of the shops are opened up for you to walk right in. The other half require a loading screen while their interiors aren't even more complex in any way. It just doesn't make sense and becomes so frustrating after a while.

Outpost building also has a lot of issues, from weird object snapping to cargo links that suddenly stop working. Your ships sometimes doesn't spawn on the landing pad, right at the moment you're overencumbered and can't fast travel anywhere (carry weight is stupidly low). Outpost building also lacks any kind of proper introduction. I needed to watch a YouTube tutorial just to understand the cargo link system properly.

I could go on for a while but I have other things to do.

Honestly can't wait for the community to get their hands on the modding tools to fix this game. There is a lot of potential here but it's bogged down by so many things now.

All in all I'm still going to recommend the game since I enjoyed my first playthrough, but Steam could really use a "Meh" button for games like this.

One of the best things to happen in gaming in decades.

No DLC, no Season Pass, no limited content. Just a 60 dollar game, and its a masterpiece!

It allows you to increase the FOV so the game is actually playable. (+20% worked for me)

Impressive for being Mundfish their first game. It's good fun, I just wish it was longer. Looking forward to the DLC!

Game runs surprisingly well, playing maxed out with DLSS Quality at 3440x1440 with a RTX 3070 and it's very playable without many stutters since it has shader caching. :)

Seriously good story with some of the best music score I've heard in a video game. The time period (1968 during the Vietnam War) is just perfectly executed! I really don't get the mixed reviews this game got.