Comanche

Bit short. But its okay.

It has so much potential but the vague instructions and utterly baffling pathfinding is elementary coding. The whole mission with the dam can ♥♥♥♥ all the way off and while i couldn't refund, 6 of my pal's did. ♥♥♥♥ you, game.

Comanche This game is just pure mediocrity in all forms. It’s not the worst and for sure not the best game I’ve ever played, but it’s one of the worst experiences in gaming for me. As you maybe read before in other reviews, this game has nothing to do with the original Comanche series and is an arcade approach instead of wanting to be a simulator. That’s per se not bad, but also as an arcade game it didn’t work well, especially due to the controls I will describe in more detail later. To be clear: This game was formerly planned as an multiplayer and coop experience. But when I’ve played it, the online features weren’t accessable at all, so I can’t tell you how good or bad this idea was implemented at all. My critics will be concentrated on the single player campaign and extra missions played with an Xbox controller. Sadly this game felt so incredibly generic in all forms for me! The visuals: They are fine, but nothing special. Typical UE look with all it’s goods and bads. I personally think this doesn’t look as good as shown on the pictures here on Steam. I’ve played with everything on epic and it still has these typical UE lighting problems (overexposed in many cases). Also the well known shadow problem (visible grid) was perceptible. The landscape looked so incredibly generic and you could see the typical UE kit appearance. The maps themselves weren’t crafted well and felt like fast put together in a simple editor with probably low effort. I witnessed a lot of ugly and heavy glitches, were you could easily fly under the area of operation. For sure that killed the immersion, but at least helped me to finish the game faster, which could be seen as a win situation. The Comanche model itself looked good and also the drone your are using during your missions. The enemies were mostly boring and generic as well. The audio: I won’t remember any music, ambient noise or overall sounds in the future. There was nothing special and for my taste the helicopter and especially the combat noise wasn’t given at all. The audio files, which were transporting the story were also not the best. The controls: For me the worst part of the game. Consider that I played with a controller and your experience can differ vastly if you play with HOTAS or M/K. I’ve tested the arcade and the so called realistic controls and they were both crap on the controller. The whole game felt weird and the Comanche moved so unsteadily floating all the time, that is was a real pain to navigate through the many caverns and canyons. At least the drone controls were fine. The gameplay: The overall experience was very unsatisfying for me. Yes it wasn’t terrible all the time, but I was not amused in many cases and had to swear a lot due the controls and systems. The enemies were beyond stupid and sometimes had no perception at all. In the next second you could get spotted from miles away and be wasted. So there wasn’t any balance in the game. The checkpoints were bad too, but in the extra missions it was even worse. You could play for a long while and if you mess up (maybe due to the fine controls or the excellent enemy ai), you could restart and replay the whole mission again. No checkpoint at all. Short Spoiler ahead: The missions were totally generic, had low variety in gameplay and were not a big output for good devs. When you finish the last mission it’s just over. Not cutscene, no special anything. Just over and you get catapulted back to the main menu… For real? That’s just lazy. Conclusion: Even I’ve bought it in sale for 4.99 I can’t recommend this to many players. Yes, you can probably have some fun, but I think there are many other games performing better for you. Remember the mp will not work and so you just get the lazy campaign in its cheap editor design and the frustrating extra missions with asset flips.