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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 15.0 hrs on record (7.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: 11 Aug, 2015 @ 7:16pm

Early Access Review
Great potential, just like any other games that's still in pre-alpha.

It's fun for a very short while and then the outstandingly low amount of content quickly makes you wonder how a game that needed 350.000$ to get done with a kickstarter, that ended up earning over 1.000.000$ in sales in only ONE week (In January 2014 when it was released as early access) can still be in in such a poor state. Considering development started in 2012 for this game, how much more money or time do you need to get out of pre-alpha?

Another good example of how buying unfinished products is bad for the industry.
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21 Comments
Pootisoop 12 Aug, 2022 @ 10:56pm 
check it out again, it has alot of maps, and cars. very good game.
FullMast3rM1nd 21 Jul, 2018 @ 10:52am 
Hello citizens, it is I, the future, to let ye whom are from the past know that there has been much development that has come into existence in the last months. I request that ye take yet another gander upon the current development, and reconsider thy opinions.
Nigerian King of Scam 13 Sep, 2017 @ 10:14am 
2017 and still no game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BngxKer9ROc
Somewhat relevant.
Alex 22 Sep, 2016 @ 6:13am 
Or like Star Citizen. They made 100 million dollars or something like that (~80 million dollars from backers) and several years and its faaaaaar from finished ("biggest and most awesome MMO in space").

Anyway, if you dont know how a game will turn out dont pre-order or go early access. Only do it when you have actual faith in the developers. Like knowing their track record from previous games made etc.
Ketonasarus 9 Aug, 2016 @ 7:25am 
Here in 2016, the game still isn't finished yet
MrTuhnu 20 Nov, 2015 @ 2:38pm 
What you said is totally true.. I´ve bought this and DayZ in early access and I think i have learned my lesson. NO MORE EARLY ACCESS games! Always wait for first reviews after release.
Max Overload 1 Oct, 2015 @ 1:01am 
@kalidor
To be entirely fair, their first game was released in 2001 (Rally Trophy). It was three years until FO1, then two years more for FO2. That ends the original releases section until 2012. Flatout: Ultimate Carnage was an updated console port of FO2 and Flatout: Head On (2008) was just a PSP port of FO:UC.

2012 brought the awful Ridge Racer Ubounded published by Namco-Bandai. Based on it's confused reviewers, I'm pretty sure it was the game they were working on when Empire Interactive went under. The only actually new game they released from 2006 to 2012.

Based on the current state of Wreckfest and it's bizarre waverings between sim racer and arcade destruction racer, it looks an awful lot like it'll turn out just like Ridge Racer Unbounded, if it's completed at all.
Kepnik 9 Sep, 2015 @ 3:47am 
Played about 120 hours with the content which is included... last patch destroyed it a bit for me but I hope the next one will get it right. Its an awesome game, with splendid physics and grafics... if you dont want to buy early access leave it... there is always one single rule for early access...

1.) you never know when and if it will be finished... if you dont comply to this rule you cant have fun with the experience.

Did you pay 75 euro as the consoleros do for their games ? no you paid 20 or 30 ( I payed 20 ). I played over 100 hours... so for me it was a very good investment... Witcher 3 ( a GREAT game ) costed 45,- and I played about 50 hours... and now tell me again the game is bad ;-)
DanMcSharp 7 Sep, 2015 @ 2:16pm 
@ Recon
They released Flatout in 2004, then 2 years later in 2006 they released Flatout2. Early 2007 they announced Flatout : Ultimate Carnage, which was released later the same year. All that within 4 years.

Here's the problem, either they do have the money that they want, in which case why would they keep investing in a game that already gives them the profit they wanted? Or in the other hand, if they did mess up their planning and they just don't have the funding to keep going, what happens next? “Too bad guys, we didn't make it, here's you half-assed game.” Sounds reasonable? Nah, they wouldn't do that. Maybe in that case it would just stay in pre-alpha forever.

If the game is still in pre-alpha after 4 years of development, the game may be ready in a decade from now, if ever. Just you wait with your 35 years of gaming experience, one day you'll be buying games and won't live long enough to play the full product.
Recon 7 Sep, 2015 @ 9:59am 
@ GS-R. wrong, most devs today are gamers.. I been a gamer for 35 years who become a developer... You do not want gamers making your game for you...Great way to ruin your game...