Minor spoiler on enemies and story:
TLDR: Don't trust the coffee mug, yourself, December and January fighting. Also is your shotty "your shotty" find out next week on current GOTY.


While a couple of days after realese I finish this game on both pc and ps4 for comparison and have to say it's one of the most amazing games I have played in a while. Even with its level glitches and loading issues in some areas towards the end of the game, along with a 40-50fps drop in the power plant; this game really had me sucked from the moment I played it. What originally started as a oh I have $60 for EB games and heaps of unused cards on steam quickly turned into two copies of this game and an enjoyable ride along the way.

Sound - The soundtrack in this game was given to me for free as a "preorder" bonus even though I never preordered. I think bethesda and Arkane can be very proud of whoever orchestrated such a wonderful 80's techno space vibe and made it into this game. A a future game designer and programmer, I would hope this sets a precedence amount games like this as to what sounds make a game.

sound - 10/10

Animation, Graphics and Gameplay - I decided to link these together for one reason only.....the fact you can turn into anything. Mind sound strange that I would link these together but some of you might understand why. Animation as a wjhole was very good, with only minor bugs showing through this well polished shield. Having developed my own games, I have a keen eye for very minor details such as the Nightmares sliding effect at the base of its feet when it walks and a small turret bug. The graphics weren't EA style, all graphics, no gameplay type of amazing but nonetheless suited the game very well. Nothing seemed out of place and everything within each scene melded together quite nicely. Mimics didn't stand out nor were they hard to find and many times throughout the game I jumped in shock as I was perusing an email or walking past a corridor. The sound queues are very hard to hear for the mimics sometimes and this made it even more tense. Gameplay was good, fundamentally the studio seemed to know exactly what they wanted and it shows. While an assault rifle or something would have been good, the whole scarce ammo and shotty/ pistol to save the day combo made the game more of a survival horror genre.

While generally I despise these types of games and ones were the enemies are bullet soakers, this game pulled it off quite well. The whole atmosphere of the ambient noise, the dead bodies, invisable creatures in two forms and not knowning whether your shotgun was actually "your shotgun" made the game so much more tense. The ending and after credits were a nice touch and made the game feel so much more "fuller" than other games.

Gameplay and animations - 9.5/10
Graphics - 8.2/10


Story - WOW! After playing throught the first time on PS4 and getting some nice endings, I decided to go for the non boom ending. The non boom ending was amazing and took nearly 4 hours to get to the bridge from the lobby despite the fact all I had to do was activate one stupid console. The level was glitched and took me 4 hours of fiddling around with save files to get it working again, but boy was that 5 mins enjoyable. This also applies to the cutscene at the end as well so stick around. Without going into too much detail as everyone has a different experience my final story is

Story - 9.3/10

Cons
- Weird nightmare sliding
- No December why did you do it January
-10/10 flesh eating cook
-strange level bug
-may not be enough for some people

Pros
-Story
-Gameplay
-Sounds
-Mimics
-Mimics
-That coffee mug
-Mimmmics
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- Everything else