METAL EDEN

I want to recommend this game, I really do, but unfortunately I feel the game has some pretty big issues holding it back. The gameplay is alright, with pretty satisfying movement. Think a mix of Doom, and Ghostrunner, with some shooting galleries mixed between short parkour sections. The gameplay is engaging enough for a playthrough, but definitely on the easier side for these kinds of games. The game gives you a variety of weapons, with two upgrade paths each, just like Doom 2016 and Eternal, though I felt that most of the weapons weren't all that different in their use cases, it didn't feel like each weapon had a specialized role, or enemy weakness to take advantage of. The enemies look great! As does most everything in the game, with a cohesive artstyle. But, same with the weapons, the enemies didn't feel all that special to fight against, with every enemy being equally resistant to every weapon, though not for a complete lack of trying. There are enemy archetypes comparable to Doom or Ultrakill, but I feel that the devs didn't lean far enough into giving the player different enough solutions to deal with them. The art looks stunning, every area is well detailed, with a consistent style, and really awesome scifi bits and bobs. It gets a little same-y throughout the campaign, but I think it's this game's strongest area! The music didn't stand out to me, but it certainly wasn't bad. The only part I didn't like were the cutscenes, lots of recycled clips reused over the course of the game, and a strange, hard to follow story really put me off from enjoying the cutscenes. The story was as I just mentioned, not very clear. I may be a numbskull, but I don't usually struggle following a story in my games. Without spoiling anything, as far as I could tell, the story revolved around the character you play as being "very special", with a disappointing and vague reveal towards the end of the game. 99% of the story is told through dialogue, and barely anything through the gameplay itself, which is fine, if it was more interesting. It's also a very short campaign, though I don't think I would have wanted more playtime anyway. In short, cool art, weird story, fun but flawed gameplay, Clearly a lot of work went into this game, I think it's a shame that I couldn't quite enjoy it.

Il gioco in sè, incentrato sul combattimento e sul movimento, risulta ottimo; molto simile all'esperienza che ho avuto con doom eternal. La varieta dei nemici è abbastanza buona e il design è personalmente ottimo. Consigliato per chi cerca uno sparatutto molto frenetico e per gli amanti del movimento. Pecca però in molti punti: -La storia è abbastanza semplice ma impossibile da capire durante l'andamento del gioco, con dialoghi molto vaghi che spesso avvengono durante combattimenti in cui non hai modo di concentrarti su essi. Se si è interessati a essa meglio cercare su internet. -L'ambientazione generale sarebbe interessante se non fosse ripetuta per tutta il gioco senza mai cambi significativi. -La difficolta è abbastanza bilanciata tranne in alcuni momenti, alcuni nemici hanno un attacco ad area da lontano che in molti casi è praticamente inschivabile e molte volte colpisce anche mentre stai scappando alla massima velocità -La cosa peggiore è che il gioco è pieno di Bug, alcuni non rendono l'esperienza sgradevole, mentre altri bloccano il personaggio in una sezione di storia senza la possibilità di proseguire, non fanno sparare l'arma o ti bloccano il movimento. -I trofei sono buggati, online trovi facilmente il modo di sbloccarli ma richiede di ripetere varie sezioni di gioco. Se si è disposti a passare oltre ai problemi del gioco è un esperienza divertente e gratificante.

TLDR: Decent boomer shooter carried by its looks, but too short. Buy it on a sale. Metal Eden kinda made me think about what it would have been like if Marathon was a single player game instead of an extraction shooter, at least in terms of its art direction. That being said, that's the real star of the show here. The game is a stunning ode to cyberpunk and "graphic-design core" as I like to call it, and every aspect of its visuals are difficult to look away from. The sound design is punchy, and appropriately filled with lasers, synths, and all things that go "bwaaa." The enemies, while feeling at least somewhat indistinct from one another mechanically, have great character design, and are both creepy and badass. However, aside from Metal Eden's presentation, the rest of it is simply "eh." It feels almost exactly like DOOM (2016), except not as polished, and poorly imitating that title's seamless interweaving of combat abilities. The level design is serviceable though, and traversal is fun enough. And last but unfortunately the least is the game's runtime. I suppose it's better that it didn't overstay it's welcome, but the four-ish hours it took me to complete it does not justify a $30 price tag. Although I wasn't taking my time, I certainly wasn't rushing the game, and went out of my way to do the incredibly short side content.

fun

Looks stunning, really decent FPS with butt clenching fights every other minute unless you are a ball.

Excellent, je recommande fortement.

Unfassbar gutes Spiel. Extrem schnell und präzise. Der Soundtrack passt perfekt und pumpt ordentlich Adrenalin, während man sich durch die Story ballert. + Movement wie Titanfall + Kampfsystem wie Doom Eternal + abwechslungsreiche Waffen und Upgrades - relativ kurz