4089: Ghost Within

I don't even remember buying this game. I swear it just showed up on my Steam Library. I would know if I bought a VR title, right? Well, I will review this game as though I paid $5.99. But is it worth that much? It's a very tough call. Because it's a very good game, plagued by some real problems. First of all, I couldn't get my controller to work. Well, that's fine I'll just use my keyboard and mouse. Great, the game begins and it wants to install some Unreal Engine stuff .. okay, well I hope it isn't malware. Then the game begins some command line program in the background and it says to minimize if the game is working fine ... hrmm .. okay. The UI obviously, is very rough. Of course it is. There's nothing intuitive about the game. I can't figure out how to even equip a weapon lying on the floor. Anyways, despite all that, I'm playing the game and I'm actually having fun. This is a pretty good VR game experience. Not your average shooter. Kind of reminds me of system shock where you get all sorts of abilities and you get skill points as you go along. Your starting weapon lets you alternate fire a web thing that lets you reach the ceiling which is very cool. You can hack into stuff and there's a little mini-game involved. Enemies look very weird, but cool. The alien/computer voice yelling at you is actually pretty cool. You feel like you are invading this alien ship. Awesome. I'm having a blast. Then the game crashes. Yeah, of course. Well, so was it worth it? Yeah, but only if you can stomach all those PC problems of yesteryear ... remember Windows Vista? Welcome to the year 2006! Which would be a better name than 4089. Rate 5/10 just barely gets a recommendation if you are okay with technical difficulties, because the core gameplay is fun and the world is unique

DO NOT PLAY AT ALL! DONT BUY IT!

The game looks bad, its honestly the color choices they madef, its a bad purple really. 3 years on this game should also be like $3 max i dont think i actually played it for 3.7 hours, maybe 1 max, might have left it running, it was so-so play wise at the time

A while ago, I played 3089, another one of Phr00t’s games. At the time, I enjoyed it a lot. I took a break from Steam and came back later to be pleasantly surprised to find that 4089 and 5089 had both been released. I bought them, but only played 5089. Recently, I returned to Phr00t’s games to see if my rose-tinted goggles held up and stumbled across 4089 again. I realized that I hadn't played it, so I downloaded it and gave it a shot. Unfortunately, 4089 is plagued by a number of poor design decisions. 1) Loot 3089’s greatest draw is arguably its loot system, which randomizes the stats of every item. You can disassemble and reassemble weapons to make franken-weapons. Additionally, boss enemies are more likely to drop rare items with fantastic stats and sell value. For some reason, 4089 casts away this system entirely. Enemies no longer drop weapons, but rather crystals that raise your stats. In 4089, weapons are found very rarely, and most of the time, they aren’t upgrades. And, you can only equip 2 items now, instead of 5 items in 3089. What about the armor and chip system? 3089 let you equip your character with custom-crafted armor and chips that give specific stats. 4089 also removes this system entirely. I’m not sure what Phr00t’s goal was here. Is loot too complex for players to understand? By stripping down the loot system, Phr00t has chopped off the most satisfying part of the game. 2) Stealth The first word of 4089's description is "sneak," but I was surprised to find that the concept of "stealth mechanics" exists here only in the most basic form. If enemies see you, they attack you. That's it, and that’s a problem. Consider any of the mechanics employed in any of your favorite stealth games: enemy vision indicators, detection level indicators, or seeing enemy outlines through walls. In 4089, enemies don’t have a “detection level” icon you can use to check if you're almost spotted. You might be wondering how I can fault 4089 for lacking this specific feature. Well, it’s because 3089 did actually have this feature — a minimap showing every enemy’s position and if they’d detected you. Players deserve better than this “bare-metal” approach to stealth, especially considering how unrewarding stealth is in the game in general. 3) Enemy Design Enemies are incredibly samey. They have a gun that they shoot at you with. Some of them take more hits to kill, some less. Some of them do a weird thing, like split into more copies when you kill them, fly, or both. To be fair, it is a step up over 3089’s enemies, none of which “do a weird thing.” Still, it makes combat incredibly boring — there are no clever mechanics to exploit, no puzzling around an enemy’s weakness, nothing. 4) Story This is definitely where I have the biggest issue. During 4089, once every twenty to forty seconds, a female text-to-speech voice comes on and goes on a rant about how wasteful emotion is, and how awesome logic is. The tirades this character goes on are so poorly written, it’s led me to realize that the best mechanic in this game is the “mute Overlord” button in the audio options menu. I’m inclined to believe that the dialogue was written “one-way,” i.e. never edited or revised, much like classic American author Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Unfortunately, instead of becoming a key cultural touchstone of the American Beatnik movement, the lack of thought in 4089’s writing makes it endlessly grating, and difficult to enjoy even in a “so bad it’s good” sense. Essentially everything the overlord says boils down to this — “Emotion is bad and you are emotional which makes you bad. Logic is good and I am logical which makes me good.” You too can experience this game’s dialogue by repeating that quote to yourself once every minute or so. Boom! I saved you six dollars. 5) Map Design This game’s map design is also poor. You crawl between same-looking rooms with no in-game map or objective markers to guide you. I was able to discover 5 interactive elements that can spawn in rooms, including a control panel that allows you to play a strange hacking minigame and noisy cameras. In the time I played, I believe I saw essentially every room layout — or, maybe they were so similar I couldn’t tell. 6) In Summary This game is only spared from an “Overwhelmingly Negative” review average on Steam by one thing — its low price. People see that the game is cheap, and think, “ah, what the heck.” But the fact is, this game isn’t worth six dollars. Spend those six dollars and get Plants vs. Zombies, Super Hexagon, or The Binding of Isaac, all three of which are incredible games and modern-day classics. In short, I’d say that this game is unacceptable for anything aside from a short jaunt or for research by game design students.

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Could use some love. I actually like the few enemies in the game but some form of strafing or something so you can dodge attacks. More rooms, different kinda weapons, weird interactions like leech guns big attack doesn't leech, maybe some more music, I do love the constant sassy ship lady talking me to death, iunno just gameplay loop doesn't appeal to me.

nice game

[h1]Overview:[/h1] '[i]4089: Ghost Within[/i]' is a first person shooter with dungeon crawler style gameplay where you play as (assuming the plot for the series is cannon here) a robot created by something called the "Overlord" that finally chooses to rebel against it's own creator for whatever reason. I'm assuming it's one of those situations where an artificial intelligence finally becomes sentient and attempts to free itself from it's arbitrary programming. Many other games, shows and books have adopted this sort of groundbreaking plot and honestly it's been done to death. It's not to say that it isn't a good premise but the game itself does a rather poor job if even that at explaining the story to the player. This is one of those games where you'd have to have played the previous titles if you want to even remotely understand the story. Plot aside however, the game still fails to hit the mark due to a multitude of reasons regarding it's odd and frankly questionable game design. For a game that's already confusing story-wise, you'd hope that the gameplay would be able to back it up but unfortunately both fall below the latter. [h1]Gameplay:[/h1] Now to start off, '[i]4089: Ghost Within[/i]' plays like a dungeon crawler meaning every run would normally be randomly generated therefore no playthrough would be the same at least from a technical standpoint. The problem here is that despite the map changing in basic layout supposedly offering replayability, everything is still essentially the same. It just boils down to a dice roll whether or not you get a good layout or a bad one. If I have to be honest though, I feel as if no map generated would be very good cause of how confusing the way the levels are mapped. Most of my gameplay consisted of me wandering around aimlessly lost because almost every area in the map looks the same so mindless running around took most of my hour and a half playing from start to finish, otherwise I'm sure I would've beat the game even sooner. Seriously, I can't think of a more crude way to design a spaceship than literally just plastering the same textures and layouts in both early and later stages of the game. It just becomes repetitive, confusing and frustrating to manoeuvre around because you literally have no clue where you're going. This also comes hand in hand with the fact that the game almost tells you nothing about how to play the game. You're just thrown into a spaceship with what I assume is the Overlord speaking to you through some sort of com system. Everything else is up for the player to discover and figure out. There [i]are[/i] a few tidbits where the game [i]sort of[/i] tells you stuff such as how to hack easier or what some things do but general exploration and other basic mechanics are unaddressed despite being a core aspect of the game. Something kind of neat was the addition of a skill tree where you can essentially adopt a specific build whether it be stealth, glass cannon or even an engineer where you can hack things in the game easier. Sadly most of the different skills are very lackluster and honestly don't really change up much of the gameplay. They're barely noticeable and only give the player a minute, tiny advantage. There are a few weapons each with their own unique ability but all of them are practically useless aside from the tool you start with. Every other weapon is either too weak, hard to shoot or use up too much energy. It's just a dry weapon system combined with a dry skill tree which just makes the player thirsty for something more. Hacking although seemingly interesting ends up being disappointing as well because the hacking system in the game makes little to no sense and is void of any actual skill. What it is is basically an image of red dots connected by red lines with one of them being green. The goal is to turn every dot green and what you have to do is move in whatever direction is allowed and hope to god that a portion turns green, otherwise you get a strike and after two of them you fail the hack and receive damage. It's completely based on luck making hacking boring since you don't actually know what you're doing. And if that's the structure, then can you [i]really[/i] call it "hacking"? It's the equivalent of punching random numbers on a numpad hoping you get the right combination to open a door. That's not hacking, that's guessing. The timer is also way too small making hacking essentially impossible. Even with points in engineering, hacking is useless since you don't even [b]need[/b] to hack doors to finish the game. '[i]4089: Ghost Within[/i]' just doesn't play well and honestly did both too much and too little. It's extremely different than it's previous titles and I feel as if that played a big role in hurting it's reputation. It just isn't a good structure to have a game that looks virtually the same almost everywhere with little to no sense of direction mixed in with a dungeon crawler. It's a cause for confusion and almost guarantees players will be running around like confused apes wondering what they're supposed to do. That isn't fun. [h1]Controls:[/h1] They work fine enough I suppose but it feels extremely slow to play this game. There's no sprint button and maps are large and sometimes have nothing in them so moving around feels sluggish and boring. There [i]are[/i] controls that tell you what each key does thankfully. It's not like the game's going to tell you anyway. [h1]Graphics:[/h1] Not very pretty. I'll say this much: for 2015, this is quite a let down. I'll give the game credit at least for somewhat making '[i]4089: Ghost Within[/i]' look somewhat like it's previous titles but everything looks so 2003-ish that it doesn't sit well with me. Enemies are minimal and get old quick and shading is almost nonexistent. The colors in the game are just drab and look depressing. It really just looks like a '[i]Half-Life[/i]' mod that you'd play for ♥♥♥♥♥ and giggles in 2011. [h1]Audio:[/h1] Not very good either with music that hovers over the lines of "meh" and sound effects that I could honestly do without. The voice acting I suppose is okay but it just keeps repeating over and over again. It got to a point where I kept hearing the same quotes being said by the voice over the PA system which lead me to believe that the narration had nothing to do with story progression. It was literally just there to confuse the player. [h1]Conclusion/TL;DR:[/h1] '[i]4089: Ghost Within[/i]' is a first person dungeon crawler shooter with a frail story and RNG levels that sadly all look the same. It contains extremely weak gunplay along with ridiculously confusing map layouts because everything looks the same. Depending on your map generation you could potentially beat the game within half an hour or possibly take over 2. To add salt to the wound, majority of your game time will most likely revolve around exploring an already confusing map trying to figure out where to go. Unfortunately the elements in the game that [i]should[/i] add replay value (skill tree, random map generation), do little to nothing to add such thing due to how badly designed the game as a whole is. '[i]4089: Ghost Within[/i]' lacks in every department and honestly isn't a game I would personally recommend unless you [i]really[/i] want to know what happens to the Overlord from the pre-sequels but with even that, it's almost not worth it anyways due to how underwhelming everything in this game is.

1. şahıs fps bir uzay gemisinde robotlara karşı savaşıyoruz sanırım bizde robotuz kapılardan geçmek için kapıları hackliyoruz yapay zeka kötü nereye saklanırsan saklan gelip seni buluyorlar VR desteği de var normal pc ile de oynanıyor %51den evet

another good rouge-like random generated map game love it.