Recent reviews by Helgart

So the adventure part is an almost solid narration and pure garbage, let's talk about the free mode then. Five islands form three sea regions, each has a town belonging to a specific nation: British, French or Spain. Current condition of the game allows transporting goods between islands, also participating in sea battles, seems knippel and grapeshot mechanic doesn't work yet properly, so sinking is the only usage of artillery for now. Boarding the most funny part, only few games can boast of this. There'a six types of ships, each has three version, some of them look very nice and you have to capture gradually, step by step, ship by ship, from the weakest to more advanced. So getting new ships, making money, getting new levels, weapon skills, increasing your stat, unlocking better gear it's all the game is about right now. Not so much, but 'it has potential' as they say😁

It seems the developers gonna work on this one for years if not decades to create something to be called as a 'open world survival craft' game, not just its engine, that would have missions, challenges and goals and, as they promised, to take you back from Mars, whoa! It's up to you to believe them or not but right now it's a nearly zero content with a campaign title as a pure bait which ends before it has even begun and, after placing few hydrodynamical and electric installations mainly released in a very primitive way, you get full immersion into the atmosphere of a clicker for everyday stuff consuming. Not gonna bothering you with bugs, lack of QoL, optimization issues, they definitely are. And yeah, a huge desert map with different biomes full of metal junk, vehicles for its exploration (you got familiar with best of it if played prologue) and more junk will be incoming as airdrop. In other words, whole bunch of potential! But today I'd recommend playing something more worthwhile like 'Survival: Fountain of Youth' released on the same time and still on EA. It's up to you to believe me or not.

the atmosphere of the new world: climbing some trees, building your base, constructing boats and opportunity to swim underwater, - this alone is fascinating, not that stunning, but not bad, not in a huge but in a modest sized world. And, having already played Sid Meier's colonization I hope to check out on the spot at least what that Fountain of Youth was about lol... on the final chapter release of course

for a game which has wheels in any form this one probably the worst ever made

Good. Either with keyboard but controller is better, compared with WRC6 much better control, so it's not a tank's physics anymore, and the difficulty is better balanced as well

High sensitivity nightmare. For whatever reason they have raised steering sencitivity to impossible level so now it's way too far from the relaxing "default controller settings on any mode", like in WRC8. Try avoid making mistakes but the car delivers a bunch instead, though messing with transmission could fix it a bit, junior league becomes even easier after that. Team objectives seems were fixed but the base crew size was reduced from 20 to 10 so play career with 10 crew who keep disappearing

Awesome. Any mode on the easiest difficulty with default controller settings, try to avoid mistakes and come first. Though it still need fixing for team objectives and crew disappearance

Looks very unfinished, missed many basic features and has some issues
- Your farm starts in a complete mess, logs and boulders are all around with no way to remove them and a buggy storage from DLC, you very likely don't need, makes tools to fall through its textures.
- Not sure what they mean by the 'Dynasty'. This game pretends to be 'The Sims' or such but stands very far from it, not to mention 'My time at Portia'. Because of the miserable social content and ONLY guidance you have here is achievements which won't ask you to spend 500 planks, metal or bricks, you probably will be teleported in wrong direction onto fields, instead of playing the main content what as they say is about improving your buildings.
- NPCs are a complete sucks, their existence is almost decorative, for talks it has to be interrupted several times, getting 'I'm busy'.
- Opened map won't be centered on the current position and moving it could teleport into other vehicle, which is annoying. There's no hotkey for switching vehicles and getting to them through the map is also hard. Besides, they don't have brakes and keep moving, so...Dude, Where's My Car?
- Fields aren't flat so plowing turns into the getting through dunes, tractor yanks left/right which makes your fingers sick.
- No hotkey for the head flashlight, leaving a vehicle turns its lights off, old tractors don't have back lights, thus you got some troubles in the dark.
- Some graphics issues like sky flickering while fishing or tree shadows override vehicle's lights. Graphics itself looks primitive, it's nearly 'HayDay' from Android.
- Optimization? Wasn't delivered. FS 15, 17 and 19 have much better performance on my GTX650.
- And much more...
So finally its price looks too high even at 70% discount.... while there'a some outdated FS nearby - very likely better developed and cheaper

The UI is ugly and non-informative, everything is dark, schematic A B C D villages looks boring and the shaking over-the-shoulder view and bunch of videos won't make you happier either. Still no camera rotation or soft speed adjustment. Just play Nemesis of the Roman Empire or any Total War for better experience or views.

This funny game sent me back to 90s, the epoch of wonderful aviasimulators made by Microprose, Dynamix, Ocean and Jane's, somewhat buggy, easily controlled by keyboard and mouse, when overall playability in dynamic surrounding prevailed over the 'high degree realism for controlling your flying toy'. So recently, it was a tough mission, on the 1st try i couldn't finish starting goal in time, on 2nd i released whole ammunition on wrong targets and failed, on 3rd plane was destroyed by flak, on 4th it was struck by lightning, on 5th all engines were burnt by fighters, on 6th... it was actually a bug and the game crashed:\