Dark Raid

Dark Raid is a pretty mediocre game for a lot of reasons. It has a couple redeemable qualities: the voice acting was decent for an indie game, and it plays fairly well since it was made in Unreal Engine. That's about where the good ends, though. First off, it took me three times to launch it because it kept immediately crashing. The first mission is incredibly boring. The game doesn't explain or set the environment for why you're there and what you're doing. It has you wander around a corridor maze to find a part, then run back to the start, and then back again to where you found the part. This starts the story, which was pretty shallow but passable. It's basically Half Life - activate a machine and all hell breaks loose. You're a robot and don't get infected like the others due to being a solider. The enemies and combat were pretty subpar. I played for 45 minutes and only encountered two enemies: one dumb one that you kill in two shots and a bullet sponge one. The aiming isn't great and the ammo is pretty sparse for how much you need to kill all the robots. The worst part about this was probably the audio. The sound effects are horrible and unbalanced. The menu sounds and the jump sound in particular are quite bad. After the first mission, you're inundated with very loud screeching sound effects. I'm fairly certain the hacking sound is an altered version of the Steam message notification sound. There are numerous other issues as well... The max resolution is capped at 1080p. There are in-game achievements and trophies but no Steam achievements. The subtitles have tons of typos and grammatical errors. The hacking system is the worst I've ever seen in a game. I stopped playing at the platforming section three or so levels in. There's no checkpoint system, so if you fall or die at any point you have to start at the beginning of the level and rewatch the cutscene. From what I played, this felt like a low quality Unreal project that needed much more playtesting before being published.

When you start the game (if you can get it to start, it took four tries until it didn't crash after playing the opening credits), you see the Unreal Engine, a professionally designed Vector studio credit, and then a nicely designed Sci-Fi menu with beautiful, meaningful, orchestral music. Then, you click start, and all that promise just dribbles away like bird poo in a carwash. You are a gruff, over-acted, self-aware robot who doesn't like system updates, so when something goes horribly wrong (presumably with the system upgrades, I didn't get far enough to dig into the "story"), naturally, you are spared. Before this, however, is what may be the worst attempt at a tutorial stage I've ever experienced. A brief flash of "Meet So and So Commander" pops up once you take control of your robo for the first time, but there is no map, there are no icons leading your way. There's just you, and an overly complex maze of identical rooms and identical hallways. Eventually, you'll happen upon the correct one, and someone with a "city person's imagining of a Southern accent" will tell you to put the doohickey in the frenetic modulator you were working on before. So, you must now navigate the maze backwards to your starting point. Jesus. Yada yada yada, you get to the gunplay eventually. It is sloppy, frantic (not in the fun Unreal Tournament way, but more like Turok Rage Wars on the N64), and frustrating. I was going to write about how there wasn't even an aiming reticle to use, until I died for the third time and the reticle just...showed up! Wtf was that all about? I died again, and it disappeared. It seems you intend to play this game, you had better be majorly decent at guessing where you're supposed to be shooting, because the robot guy doesn't hold his gun straight, so that you can look down the barrel; no, he holds it limply to the side, like his arms are getting tired at the end of a long day. There's no autosaving in this game, and the checkpoints feel very, very far from one another, especially with how easily one will die. Accidentally put one foot into some fire? Dead. This game isn't for sissies. /s Avoid this game. I don't even want to say this game has promise, because, well, there's just too much to fix. You'd be building a whole new game before you got to half of the issues. Oh, and that beautiful music from the title? There's NO music in the game. Once you start, it's silent, allowing you to focus more intently on the mistake you made buying this game. 2/10 (they get a point just for using the Unreal engine) Liked this review? Follow my curator page by clicking the following link: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/diggingdeep#curation

First mission: 1. Walk through big map for some part. 2. Walk back with part. 3. get your ears bleed by loud squeeking sounds invented by some deaf ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Uninstalled.

I tried liking this game. The crappy checkpoint system killed it for me. Once I reached the platforming section and died and then went back to the start of the level, I was done with this game and uninstalled. If this had quicksaves I would recommend it.... for less than $1 which is what I paid for it. But it does not, give it a pass. And the description is a lie, this is nothing like a true old school shooter.

Worst Thing I've Every Played Requesting My Money Back

Another super cheap scifi shooter in my library, gave it a try. Kinda enjoyed the walking sim at the start, the dialogue was hilarious, but in the next section I got killed a few times by stupid flames. I hate platforming, hazard courses and checkpoint saving in good games, in bad games I don't even bother and just uninstall the whole thing.

Where the heck is the terminal...

Buggy broken ass game. Waste of money. Glad I got it out of a bundle with some other games instead of buying it.

Dark Raid is honestly a pretty disappointing game in terms of production quality. For most of the experience, it feels rough and poorly made, and only towards the end of the story does it become somewhat nice to look at. The shooting mechanics are also a major issue. The aiming feels clunky and unreliable, which makes combat more frustrating than enjoyable. On top of that, enemies often feel like they have aimbot, hitting you with unrealistic precision and making encounters feel unfair rather than challenging. The storyline isn’t particularly strong either. It’s not the worst, and it can be acceptable at times, but it never really stands out or becomes truly engaging. The ending, unfortunately, is very underwhelming and leaves little to no impact. After finishing the game, it just feels like something is missing. 3/10

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