American Patriots: The Swamp Fox

[b] [h1] INTRODUCTION: [/h1] [/b] Well, I'll be upfront with those who are reading this review... [i] American Patriots: The Swamp Fox [/i] is still 100% guaranteed NOT worth six bucks. Let me break it down as to why you probably shouldn't get this game from Cult Software, and instead get one of their other games if you're into board games or American history. [b] [h1] UPDATE: [/h1] [/b] I have not been able to play the latest gamemode that was inserted into [i] American Patriots: The Swamp Fox [/i] quite yet, but to be honest, I'm not entirely sure I'd want to check it out. I'll fully update the review when I get around to it, but this may or may not be up-to-date pros and cons, so keep that in mind when reading on. [b] [h1] STORY/LORE: [/h1] [/b] The whole game is spent reliving an ambush scene from [i] The Patriots... [/i] yeah, that's it. Look up the scene from that movie, and you'll get the gist of the game. [b] [h1] GAMEPLAY: [/h1] [/b] Again, watch the scene. The gameplay is made for you to eventually die off from the mass floods of redcoats, which isn't really fun and ruins any possible replayability that [i] American Patriots: The Swamp Fox [/i] may have had. [b] [h1] VISUAL AESTHETIC: [/h1] [/b] The environment in [i] American Patriots: The Swamp Fox [/i] is green, swampy, and muggy. The redcoats are faceless, but I will say that hitboxes have been fixed up; it may not help for the rest of what I'm about to spout it, but it is something to consider. The pellets that are shot from the redcoats' muskets look almost like Bullet Bills from the Mario franchise, which ruins a bit of the emersion when I know that bullets the size of cannonballs are getting shot at me. Speaking of the bullets, they also lag a lot, along with everything else, so judging their movement speed and timing is really funky. Finally, motion blur has to go; I normally wouldn't get sick from motion blur, but I actually started to feel ill from looking at the screen after a while. [b] [h1] AUDITORY AESTHETIC: [/h1] [/b] The redcoats of [i] American Patriots: The Swamp Fox [/i] don't make any distinct noise when they're walking up on you, but only when they shoot at you. Easy gameovers occur from running circles and not hearing a redcoat walk up behind me. Let's not forget the flute music in this game that could cause auditory seizures... wait, that isn't a thing? Aight, imagine nails on a chalkboard combined with a flute playing the highest note they can right in your ears. [b] [h1] BUGS, GLITCHES, AND OTHER ISSUES: [/h1] [/b] Apparently the guy behind [i] American Patriots: The Swamp Fox [/i] promised, "zombie redcoats," but I saw nothing of the sort. For a, "Halloween," game, there isn't much spookiness to be had from this. Seems more like an Independence Day-esc game more than a horror-filled treat. Hitboxes were crap at times, the idea you cannot really live for more than a minute or so is kind of a joke, and the game is so laggy and disorienting that I simply couldn't take the sickness anymore. [b] [h1] OVERALL? [/h1] [/b] [i] American Patriots: The Swamp Fox [/i] is, simply put, a game to avoid. This Halloween game is nothing more than a laggy Independence Day game with the intent on making sure you can't even live more than a few minutes to enjoy a SINGLE aspect of it. Play one of their board games on Steam; they seem aight. [b] [h1] YOUTUBE PLAYTHROUGH: [/h1] [/b] [i] American Patriots: The Swamp Fox [/i] was played while I blathered about possibly beginning Twitch streaming and such, so here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWkLr9blXnk

[h1] This review was submited to [url=https://saveorquit.com/2018/11/20/review-american-patriots-the-swamp-fox/] Save or Quit! [/url] [/h1] *NOTE* Things have been changed since I submited my review. I have made slight edits to the Steam review to state some of these changes. Full disclosure, the Dev gave me a copy through my [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32912601/] Steam Curator page[/url], and I figured I’d cover the game, more less to say thanks for the game! I should have gotten around to this game sooner before it launched, but I had been busy with life things, and with that I’m glad I never paid $6 for this mess. All it takes is a quick look at the screenshots and the video, and you can already tell what to expect. So let’s get right into it! The game says it is inspired by the ambush scene from The Patriot. Obviously, if you watched the movie you would know that this game is nothing like it. There is no “ambush” in here, only endless upon endless amounts of faceless redcoats in a tiny muggy swamp/forest area. You assume the role of Francis Marion, who is being hunted down in a swamp in South Carolina, though you honestly can’t tell where you even are as it just looks like a poorly made swamp. The story really doesn’t change/affect anything, as it tells you before you start the game in a simple black screen with white text. Armed with only a Double Flintlock Pistol, the objective is just to survive as long as possible and kill as many redcoats as you can with the end goal of getting a high score when you die. There is also supposedly a gold weapon and “secrets”, but I wasn’t able to get them or find anything. There is only one map, and it’s quite small and has invisible walls, so it doesn’t offer much in terms of map design. If you drop the graphics to low you can actually see the edge of the map and see the enemies spawn in. This game runs like ass. The game ran at 10-15FPS pretty much the entire time, even with playing around with the extremely limited graphical options. Even lowering to the lowest settings the game could barely keep up to 15 FPS, and looked even worse! There is even some terrible motion blur that you can’t disable. This motion blur also causes some wonky mouse drifting which causes inaccurate aiming. Combine that with the terrible framerate, trying to hit anything was almost impossible! The redcoats also have some god awful animations, and even more dodgy hitboxes. The redcoats also don’t give off any sounds, only when they shoot and die, so they will easily walk up behind you and kill you without you even knowing. Expect a lot of cheap deaths like this. They just mindlessly walk out from the trees and creep closer to you and try to shoot you. They don’t have any melee attacks, they will only try to shoot you. On top of that, when a redcoat shoots, their bullet is the size of a cannonball! If they are a fair distance away, you can dodge most shots unless you are too close then it’s instant death. *EDIT* The dev has added a walking sound to the enemies, added a sound of them spawning in, and has made it that they take longer to shoot you if your back is facing them. You only get one weapon, a double flintlock pistol. After your two shots it reloads, which also doesn’t have much of an animation it just lowers out of view, and doesn’t have any sound. Also being old flintlocks and muskets, they don’t give off any smoke after being shot which is a huge disappointment! They also only take a couple seconds to reload, which I mean if they were to make it realistic might not be too fun and make the game even harder, but even then they could balance the game better to incorporate it better. With all the flaws, I was only able to get a high score of 11 redcoats, and I have no ambition to try and do better. The game is just not fun to play. *EDIT* The dev has added a reload sound to the gun. I have made it to 21 redcoats, but the game still runs terrible and still cheap. There was 1 achievement added, Kill 66 redcoats, which as far as I can say, is impossible to do. When you get to 10 kills, the game spawns more enemies than you can shoot and reload at, and you will be swarmed almost instantly. No jumping around will save you. [h1] Verdict [/h1] For $6? Oh god no! This game isn’t even worth $1. Do not buy this, it’s not worth it. The game just isn’t fun. It would require a massive amount of work before I’d even recommend it. The Dev has made other games based on the same era and are rated better. If you are interested into strategy/board games, maybe look into the Devs other games, but this one is a hard pass!

prettybad but fun if ur dumb like me

I was a pretty good history student, but I don’t remember the Revolutionary War being won by soldiers that run like the Doom Slayer, fire flintlocks with perfect accuracy, get stuck on invisible walls, and shoot mindless, faceless redcoats in between bouts of farming. I might have missed that day in school, or maybe this game just isn’t very good. Taking place in foggy patches of Unity landscape dotted by gray trees and gray brambles, you slide around like a rocket-powered Roomba running into walls that aren’t even there. Your gormless foes will appear from nowhere, shuffling absently through the underbrush to be shot by your railgun of a musket. If they happen to catch you distracted by farming or hunting for frustratingly hidden booze recipes, they’ll silently remove chunks of your life with perfect shots of their own. While I was healing back some of this damage in my sandwich-cookie-looking cabin, it occurred to me I’d probably enjoy the actual act of sleeping, or perhaps a real-life slog through miserable swamps, more than this. You can find more mini-reviews like this one, along with full reviews and other features, on my [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/11322459/]curation page[/url]!

This is just a plain neverending wave shooter. Simple as that. The game doesn't claim to be anything else. A bit unpolished, but it seems to be a one man job. A bit heavy on the price since it is really basic, but I picked it up at a sales so I guess it was OK. The big let down is how demanding this little game is. I had to play at 720p with lowest settings on everything. And I still had some performance issue when there were many enemies. Hopefully fixed in future updates.

[h1]Описание:[/h1] Треш недошутер. Бегаем по болоту, стреляем в безлицых врагов и собираем записки. Оптимизации нет, сюжета нет, здоровья нет... Очередная мусорная игра... [h1]Оценка: 1/10[/h1] [h1]Послесловие:[/h1] [quote] Если вам понравился этот обзор добро пожаловать в кураторку [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/8114152] К и Ко [/url], там много других, хороших обзоров. [/quote]

American Patriots: swamp fox -------------------------------------------------- В этой игре, посвященной Американской революции 1780-го года, мы играем за одного из революционеров, проживающего в лесной хибаре. Итак, перейдём к плюсам и минусам. Плюсов тут немного, но всё же я хотел бы их выделить... ✅ отличная задумка, которая заставила меня погрузиться в Американскую истрию, дабы понять, что происходит в игре ✅достаточно хорошее музыкальное сопровождение, которое отлично передаёт атмосферу из игры Из минусов я хотел бы выделить 📛тот факт, что игра очень сырая, и разработчик мог бы её дорабать, но он поторопился 🔱Моя оценка 6/10🔱

[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/7520163/]You can find hundreds of other reviews through our Curator page[/url] [h1]"This swamp might have a leech infestation - Because it sucks."[/h1] Steam is filled with awful games, and it would be pretty unfair to lump American Patriots in among the worst of them but, at the same time, it’s not particularly good. It’s stable enough and it’s not a mindless asset flip; it knows what it wants to be, and it works towards its own sense of identity. Inspired by a scene in movie-I’ve-never-seen, The Patriot that where, I guess, a lot of British dudes are shot in a swamp, American Patriots drops you in a swamp, gives you a gun and introduces you to a lot of British dudes. You have to shoot them. There’s no enemy variation; Team Britain arrive, resplendent in their spiffy red coats, shuffle forward awkwardly a few steps in your direction, fire the identical single shot rifle every last enemy troop has then s-l-o-w-l-y reloads in preparation to repeat the cycle over and over until they win or they die. Their biggest strength is in their number. They’re infinite. So, how does one lone Yankee stand a chance? The short answer is, he doesn’t. There’s no win conditions; you fight the endless red wave until they shoot you. The more complex answer is you have access to dirty tactics the honour-bound British forces would never sully themselves with, such as side-stepping or aiming. Mobility is your greatest weapon, but this will only get you so far. There’s no cover to abuse, and strategic retreats are often curtailed by the invisible walls surrounding the swamp. Still, a lone Redcoat presents little threat, and his telegraphed attacks are easy to avoid. You also have a superior weapon, allowing you a majestic TWO attacks before needing to reload. But put one enemy down, and another two painfully shuffle out of the [strike]awful draw distance[/strike] mist. Accuracy is always forced to accept redundancy under the weight of sheer volume. If winless horde mode doesn’t strike your fancy, you’re also offered winless rougelike mode. Here, you’re given a bigger swamp and a more manageable spawn rate so you can wander around and complete optional chores. Exciting era-appropriate chores, like making homebrew beer, or growing cabbages. Completing these tasks will buff your American, letting him move faster or absorb a little more punishment. Which he’ll need, considering he’ll spend most of his time lost, because the environments all look the same and there’s no map function provided. Maybe the biggest issue is there’s little reward to aim for. There’s a single achievement available for killing 66 Redcoats in horde, but that arena is so basic that survival comes down to dumb luck rather than mad skills. The majority of my deaths came at the hands of a sneaky Brit using his everspawn skills to teleport into a blind spot. There’s no plot to advance past the intro screen which is just a screen of text, [url=http://www.honestgamers.com/14931/pc/american-patriots-the-swamp-fox/review.html]// Full Review[/url]

[h1]Follow our [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36214917/]Curator Group for more reviews[/url][/h1] American Patriots: The Swamp Fox is a first-person shooter with some light survival elements. It delivers this in a specific historical setting, but given how unrealistic the gameplay is, it’s somewhat confusing what exactly the game is trying to be. First, movement is overly fast, almost to Wolfenstein/DOOM levels. This isn’t automatically a negative, but it makes the game feel like an arcade shooter where you are shooting monsters or aliens, rather than a game set in the 1700s where everyone uses muskets. It just doesn’t make sense given the historical context and feels out of place. The gunplay is rudimentary and by the numbers. There isn’t recoil, but you use a musket so you reload after every shot anyway. It isn’t awful, but it certainly isn’t fun or engaging. Enemies take a single shot, so combat is a constant loop of “shoot, run away while reloading, shoot, etc.”. Some players might enjoy the simplicity, but for me, it got stale very quickly. Visually, the game lacks anything distinctive. The graphics are generic 3D models that have no real style to them. You kill the same copy and pasted enemy over and over with no variety. The graphics aren’t laughably bad, but they are certainly not good, even considering the obviously low budget. The part of the game that was initially most intriguing to me wound up being a huge let down. The survival mechanics amount to a basic farming minigame that you spend money on periodically. It feels like filler content rather than a fully fleshed out mechanic. Overall, American Patriots isn’t that bad of a game, especially considering the low price (I’ve seen it as low as $0.59 on sale). The biggest issue with the game is that it is easily surpassed by other cheap shooters. You might get your money’s worth if you enjoy this style of gameplay, but the average person won’t get much out of it. 2/10 [quote] Visit our [url=https://www.mmmreviews.com]website[/url] for more in-depth reviews and recommendations [/quote]

Disclaimer: only really played horde mode. It's quite bad because it so badly balanced and the performance gets really low if there are a lot of enemies nearby which is almost always the case in horde mode.