E.T. Armies

Cool game by an indie dev team. it reminds me of Killzone 3 art style with the gameplay of like Gears of War but in first person. Short game, can be done in probably under 2.5hrs if normally played on Easy mode. Its a good looking game still to this day and it plays nice but the controller seems to have a bit of a delay or something on it. Still recommend it though as it's a good game, maybe wait for a sale and not pay the full price.

A lot of reviews called this game generic... They are right. This is by far one of the most bland games I have played. Practically every positive about the game is followed by a "but...", for the one euro I got it for okay, not good, but okay. The graphics look pretty good but the environments and everything in them is very repetitive. The grandness its levels infer via their size is a mirage, as they are all rather empty and very underutilized. I think the game would have been significantly better with some smaller more cohesive areas, the ones it does have in that regard are where it's at its best. The shooting is good and there's a nice variety of weapons but they feel very weak in practice, it takes a lot of body shots to down an enemy. The system is also trivialized by the fact landing a headshot instantly kills most enemies. You have grenades and some hard to spot explosive barrels are scattered about the levels but for some reason no melee button. On that topic, there were quite a few instances where it felt like my bullets just... passed by the enemy, even when they should have hit. The hip-shooting is the worst-offender of that, where it feels like you lose more than 50% of your accuracy with your rifle. The enemy AI is pretty okay but the AI for your allies is bad, they can't land kills reliably and without your intervention, often end up sitting right next to enemies. Your allies are unkillable however, which softens the issue somewhat. Speaking of, the game has the tendency to throw dozens of enemies at you before proceeding a few meters to the next fight with dozens of enemies. It gets... exhausting, especially since the enemies all look the same (one model per enemy type, for most of the game you'll be facing at most 2 enemy types) and use the same weapons. It gets extremely repetitive and the 2 hours I spent on it felt like far more due to it. The game also quite a few "hold-out" sections where an infinitely respawning about of enemies attacks you while you hunker down for two to four minutes and wait. They could have been done a lot better but as it stands, they just feel like a chore. It makes for tense albeit bland gunfights. The cover system is okay and does see a lot of use, you have to position yourself properly otherwise you will get overwhelmed. The story is thin and plagued by poor English and grammar issues across the text. There's basically no info offered on the setting, nor are there any collectibles of any sort. The characters are hardly there and I don't think making the protagonist be the recruit that sounds like he still hasn't left boot-camp while also carrying every single mission without any commendations or word spoken about his deeds was a good idea. The voice-acting is good though, you can genuinely see they tried their best with the mediocre script. It has some minor and infrequent stuttering but no crashes or other technical issues (barring some physics bugs when you headshot enemies, throwing them into the air sometimes). Music is surprisingly good though. I liked it, it hypes up the experience and certainly boosts this game's rather mediocre experience. Overall, a somewhat 5.5/10. I generally don't do comparisons so directly but your money is better spent finding some Eurojank from the early 2000s like Rat Hunter, which, also for the price of one euro, had a lot more depth in it.