Okay, let me be perfectly frank up front. No. Just no. Not for any price, not on sale, not on free, not for any reason. DO NOT PLAY THIS PILE OF TRASH!
The CP fails on many many levels, so many levels that it makes you wonder how this game got off the design floor. I'll start with combat since that's the biggest failure, the gameplay in this game. Combat does NOT work, not only because its broken and bad but also because the controls for the game do not work.
Let me ask you a serious question. IF you game has a dodge mechanic, would you reasonably expect there to be a dodge button? You would right? How about we make dodge left and right on the analog stick? That sounds good let's do that. What about moving? Oh that's the analog stick too. Wait so you are putting a combat mechanic on the same stick as basic movement? YES! So in combat movement is unreliable, and dodging also becomes unreliable because dodge will not work if you are accidentally moving a little bit when you need to dodge.
So what does this mean, well in order to dodge you need to be standing completely still and wait for the enemy to come to you and wind up an attack then hold right or left. Then maybe you dodge, and sometimes you'll do the dodge animation and get hit anyway.
But let's say for instance you dodge, now you can start to melee the monster. You get two hits TOPS before it will recover and start to hit you again. So dodge, dodge, hit, hit, repeat. Then do this three to four times per enemy even on easy mode. Oh joy.
So combat's core does not work. Period. On hard it's fucking impossible because the monsters do not stagger which means they'll hit you through your attacks and this will kill you because two hits and you die on hard.
But bad combat is not where this game stops being terrible. Throughout the game there are chests and various containers you can open for loot like health, ammo, money, sellable items (which are just money), or sometimes a mutant grub thing will jump out and take some of your health away unavoidably. On hard this means it's half your health because fuck you, or if you weren't at full health you die for no reason and you can't avoid it so fuck you. Not to mention that later in the game there are egg sacks with tenticle grubs that launches unavoidably at you just to take some of your health for no reason.
The final problem with the game is that the environment doesn't make sense. So you land on the moon, and are taken to jail for no reason. You are knocked out and thrown into a cell, when you wake up the whole prison has gone to shit, like weeks worth of breakdown shit. Doors are broken, debris is everywhere, things are busted, power is messed up. The environment is very much a lot like Dead Space and the ship that the game took place. However the destruction of the Ichimora made sense, because Issac and his crew arrive months after the marker starts turning people into monsters.
This game happens hours after you arrive. There is no way everything is this destroyed after a couple hours. It ruins any sense of emersion immediately.
But hey, it is graphically very good looking. But....absolutely not worth a fucking minute of anyone's time.
The CP fails on many many levels, so many levels that it makes you wonder how this game got off the design floor. I'll start with combat since that's the biggest failure, the gameplay in this game. Combat does NOT work, not only because its broken and bad but also because the controls for the game do not work.
Let me ask you a serious question. IF you game has a dodge mechanic, would you reasonably expect there to be a dodge button? You would right? How about we make dodge left and right on the analog stick? That sounds good let's do that. What about moving? Oh that's the analog stick too. Wait so you are putting a combat mechanic on the same stick as basic movement? YES! So in combat movement is unreliable, and dodging also becomes unreliable because dodge will not work if you are accidentally moving a little bit when you need to dodge.
So what does this mean, well in order to dodge you need to be standing completely still and wait for the enemy to come to you and wind up an attack then hold right or left. Then maybe you dodge, and sometimes you'll do the dodge animation and get hit anyway.
But let's say for instance you dodge, now you can start to melee the monster. You get two hits TOPS before it will recover and start to hit you again. So dodge, dodge, hit, hit, repeat. Then do this three to four times per enemy even on easy mode. Oh joy.
So combat's core does not work. Period. On hard it's fucking impossible because the monsters do not stagger which means they'll hit you through your attacks and this will kill you because two hits and you die on hard.
But bad combat is not where this game stops being terrible. Throughout the game there are chests and various containers you can open for loot like health, ammo, money, sellable items (which are just money), or sometimes a mutant grub thing will jump out and take some of your health away unavoidably. On hard this means it's half your health because fuck you, or if you weren't at full health you die for no reason and you can't avoid it so fuck you. Not to mention that later in the game there are egg sacks with tenticle grubs that launches unavoidably at you just to take some of your health for no reason.
The final problem with the game is that the environment doesn't make sense. So you land on the moon, and are taken to jail for no reason. You are knocked out and thrown into a cell, when you wake up the whole prison has gone to shit, like weeks worth of breakdown shit. Doors are broken, debris is everywhere, things are busted, power is messed up. The environment is very much a lot like Dead Space and the ship that the game took place. However the destruction of the Ichimora made sense, because Issac and his crew arrive months after the marker starts turning people into monsters.
This game happens hours after you arrive. There is no way everything is this destroyed after a couple hours. It ruins any sense of emersion immediately.
But hey, it is graphically very good looking. But....absolutely not worth a fucking minute of anyone's time.