I didn't really have much fun with it for two reasons:
(to be fair I played it once, very briefly so no flaming if my descriptions are one hundred percent accuratem, just point out my mistakes if indeed there are mistakes.)
Number one: The gameplay was fun but the whole 'use thermal heat to survive' pretty soon became 'pick up glowing orbs' so gameplay wise I got no benefit.
But that's not really as important to me as the second point, the story.
Number two: After seeing the Unskippable episode of it where the narrator pretty much says with a straight face that the humans are invading a foreign planet that they cannot naturally survive on and the only way they have to react to native fauna called Akrid is to rather than live alongside the Akrid or just let them have the territory that is rightfully theirs... a better response is outright genocide with no pity whatsoever and calling them 'atrocities' for daring to defend themselves. So to recap you are ethnically genociding a species native to a planet you want control over that is pretty much inhospitable to the human race to begin with?
... Nice, that really makes your plight sympathetic guys. I'm supposed to just support this? And now there's the plot point of being able to harvest the thermal energy from the Akrid corpses. Thus now you want to genocide out of desire to own a planet you have no use for and for money making greed.
Seriously? How can I empathise with a character/army that thinks like this? It feels too unsavoury and a little too genocidal for my tastes given that the only 'crime' the Akrid have commited is reacting hostile to an invading presence.
Seriously, the premise alone makes me feel so conflicted that I can't even enjoy the gameplay.
So yeah those are my two points as to why I personally am not interested. However I can see how the game would appeal (the gameplay certainly functions and I have a few friends who enjoyed it), it's just not really for me.
Also once again, I only played a little bit and saw the opening cinematic so in the interest of keeping an open mind I cannot say with certainty that what I described is the plot in essence, that's just how I saw it.
