Lotheneil vs. The Backlog Hydra, Ep. #34
No inspiration for review writing again, I’m afraid, so I’ll keep the notes brief. Still, a tiny progress made again :)
A really enjoyable open world 3rd person action game. It starts a bit slowly, when the character has no weapons or skills to speak of, but after gaining both we get a really entertaining kaleidoscope of explosions, brawler battles and general beating of bad (or rather - worse, as the protagonist is not a knight in shining armor either) guys.
Marked as completed - the only thing left are racing elements I was never exactly fond of. Every marker on the whole map cleared though.
Slasher/shooter in Warhammer 40k universe. As an Ultramarine , Captain Titus, we land on a planet invaded by orcs, and tasked with retrieving a weapon (a giant mech), before greenskins lay their hands on it. Chaos marines and demons soon join the fun, making a fairly easy op a bit more complicated - though nothing that a gun or two and chainsaw axe are not capable of solving.
I've finished the single player mode (a short campaign with basic, but fairly interesting plot), played a match or two online, just to see what the game has to offer there and called it a day.
Mad Max is on my Itching to play list, especially since it’s an SG win. I just know it’s a long game (I tend to be a completionist) and my game-time tends to be in smaller chunks, which probably isn’t ideal here. How hard is it? What is the combat like? Plus, I’m not good at “killing fast” and as I understand it there’s a fury mechanic that rewards fast-acting combat. And I’d want to play on my TV setup, but I kind of suck at aiming with a controller (as Tomb Raider 2013 and other games have proven to me). And yeah, I’m not sure I’d excel at the driving sequences either.
Mad Max is quite long, but not bad for small chunk play (unless you mean like 10 minute long chunks) - while taking a bigger stronghold may take up to a hour (especially if you look under every rock for collectibles), there are a lot of small places to visit and loot. As far as difficulty goes, it may be a bit on the challenging side at the beginning, when you have no tools at your disposal yet, but later it’s fine or even a bit easy. I’ve finished the whole game using a controller and had no problem with that whatsoever - there are auto aim / snap to target mechanics implemented, so the controls felt fluid and “just right” for me.
Races are optional activity (there may be one or two mandatory one, I can’t really remember - which means they weren’t difficult :P), while they give points for raising your stats, you can find them in abundance elsewhere and max all stats without starting even one race.
Thank you for your thoughts. The auto-aim will help, hehe. And I still love that little black ball of fur (avatar). :3