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No Origin! ♥

You are the first and the last, the outer and the inner. When I drink from the cup of love, I escape the tread of time. A moment in solitude with you, would have no beginning and no end.

Update: I WILL DRINK FROM YOUR SKULL!

Waste of time.

One of the best co-op action games I've ever played!
I'm having tons of fun playing this with my girlfriend. Planning our actions beforehand and tactically executing them is awesome. (Such as counting to three and shooting two enemies talking to each other simultaneously.) We particularly enjoy playing the classic sniper/spotter duo. It's like playing the MGS V story mode online.

Astonishing Graphics
The game is truly immersive and beautiful with highly customizable graphics options. Runs alright at medium settings even on my girlfriend's older (GTX 850M) hardware.

True Open World, Huge Map, No Restrictions
There are many different landscapes and areas to visit. A big plus in my book. What I like the most is you can do whatever you want in this game at any given time. I love it when an open world game gives me freedom.

Customization
Well, I like dressing up my characters in games. Especially in a military setting.


Terribly Coded AI Behavior (Highest Difficulty Setting)
>Wear a ghillie suit and go prone in a bush in the middle of a jungle.
>Shoot at a random enemy from 600 meters away with a suppressed sniper rifle.
>His body is found a few minutes later.
>20 enemies running straight to you aiming at your face.
>3 SUVs spawned right behind you and an attack helicopter is circling above you.

>Enemy spots you aiming at him with an AR for a moment and screams with panic.
>Quickly take cover before the detection bar fills up.
>Enemy sits down, pops open a beer and starts reading comics.

Trash Physics and Vehicle Controls, Classic Ubisoft
Too arcadey controls combined with the super weird physics engine of the game is really off-putting. I don't know if I dislike it because I've invested too much time into various air combat simulators back in the day but no rudder control in a 2017 game is unacceptable.

No Way to Restart Missions
Did something go wrong while doing a stealth playthrough? Time to go back to main menu or kill yourself with a grenade. Annoying.

No Stats Reset
Did you have fun spraying the water with your chopper's chain gun just to see the splash effects and admire the graphics of the game? Good. You've just ruined your accuracy and stealth stats permanently. Even if you delete your save files, you're out of luck. No way to start this game from scratch.

Unobtainable Cosmetics
No, you can't farm the in-game currency by any means. You need to pay real money to get cosmetic items and it's a randomized process. I can't stand crates.

Uplay
Need I say more?

Ubisoft
You have to give your money to them in order to play this.

This brought me back to CoD4 days. Really fluid FPS action to chill from time to time. The gameplay includes elements from almost every popular FPS games out there. I don't see any reason to pay a dime in this game. No overpowered P2W guns or anything. The only thing that bothered me while playing this game was that the playerbase consists mostly of kids and young teens. If you're an FPS veteran, your heart will break after going 10:0 on that one particular kid.

"Every day, I imagine a future where I can be with you..."

As someone who suffered heavily in the hands of girls all his life, this game had some strong impact on me. This is possibly one of the greatest VNs ever, yet I wouldn't call this a masterpiece as it packs so much more potential that could be realized. Nevertheless, well done Team Salvato. You managed to pin me to my chair for several hours with excitement. I also have to add that DDLC! pulled off stuff on me that I never thought possible with the Ren'Py engine. It was a blast.

9/10

Warning: This was one of the few video games that actually made me shed tears. The others are Life is Strange, MGS 4, TLOU, To the Moon. Avoid this game for now if you're feeling depressed.

Completely inferior to the good old MSI Afterburner.[www.msi.com] The clunky and unresponsive UI is absolutely garbage.

Can't have an enjoyable single-player experience without a fast internet connection or without Lv. 40 randoms dropping in your game and destroying you while you're on a boss. You gotta switch the Encounters/Invitations setting all the time in every area so you can play the game in peace. I tried to co-op with my Japanese friend but apparently the game only allows me to play with EU players. Amazing. Yesterday, I had trouble connecting to my local friend because of the troublesome region detection and had to restart the game. I also heard that it's unplayable for many players because of the missing OCE servers which were promised at launch by the devs.

I don't understand the point of the PvE in this game. The story is practically non-existent, dialogues are lame, missing voice acting and every fight with an NPC feels just the same.

The game is missing many important settings and some unmappable controls (Just why?) are terrible. Why do I have to swing my mouse in a random direction to dodge an attack? Makes no sense at all. I can't even disable the motion blur effect without completely removing all of the post-processing filters. (Without those filters, the game looks pretty ugly and bland.)

At this rate, I don't mind the developers going out of business for releasing this unpolished product full of bugs and glitches. Avoid this game!

UPDATE: The servers are down for several hours now. Incompetent devs are incompetent...

UPDATE: Unskippable boss fight cutscenes...

There's always a possibility of getting banned for unknowingly killing a streamer in this game. Beware.

UPDATE: Some egotistical high profile streamers are getting innocent people banned unfairly for small durations and the developers are siding with the streamers. This review is all about this issue. Nothing more, nothing less...

I only played this game on a free weekend but still feeling buyer's remorse.