Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

Хороша гра, схожа на XCOM, але вимагає більшої уваги - як настільна стратегія, для якої кількох годин після роботи буде замало. [h3]Геймплей[/h3] На відміну від XCOM, де кожна місія - окрема висадка бійців, тут є щось на кшталт напіввідкритого світу. Разом із командою ти досліджуєш його сектори, збираєш матеріали, обмінюєш їх на зброю та витратні ресурси й вступаєш у бій - зазвичай тоді, коли сам вирішуєш. Пряме зіткнення - майже завжди помилка: варто відкрити вогонь, і вороги збігаються з усієї карти. Через це більшість часу йде на підготовку - виманити когось поодинці, відокремити від групи, зібрати ресурси, підтягнути рівень зброї. Тут потрібні не поспіх, а терпіння й уважність. [h3]Атмосфера[/h3] Атмосфера апокаліпсису тут справді класна - навіть коли хтось проходив поруч з монітором, зупинявся й казав: «Вау, у тебе дуже атмосферно!» І це правда: музика підібрана ідеально, персонажі відчуваються як справжні сталкери з досвідом - без американських соплів і героїзму. До подій ставишся серйозно, але водночас світ уміє розсмішити - хоч якимось кумедним скелетом, знайденим у кущах. Але в якийсь момент ловиш себе на думці: [b]«Щось тут не так...»[/b] - стиль будинків — частково фінський, - дороги — німецькі, - машини — радянські, - реклама — американська. І стоїш, дивишся навколо й думаєш: [b]де ми взагалі? Що відбувається?[/b] Саме тут відкривається інша сторона гри. [h3]Деталі[/h3] По-перше, у гри був невеликий бюджет, тому розробники економили на всьому, на чому могли. Наявність радянських автомобілів - просто результат використання безкоштовних 3D-моделей із бібліотек. По-друге, гра заснована на [b]шведській настільній грі[/b] вісімдесятих зі своїм особливим гумором. Це пояснює мутантів у стилі Даффі Дака - тоді взагалі було модно показувати, як радіація перетворює людей на тварин (привіт, Черепашки-ніндзя). [h3]Враження[/h3] У підсумку маємо поєднання серйозного бойового настрою та світу, який немов жартує з тебе. Це досить незвично, якщо звик до американських апокаліпсисів на кшталт Fallout або The Walking Dead. Може скластися враження, що всі тут тікали від зомбі, але їх просто немає - майже всі загинули від ядерного вибуху. [h3]Підсумок[/h3] Загалом я раджу цю гру. У неї справді цікаво грати, особливо якщо вам подобається XCOM. Просто приділіть їй трохи більше часу - і будьте готові, що всі ці «Волги» й «Жигулі» можуть трохи дратувати.

This game plays like a worse version of XCOM with very heavy focus on stealth gameplay, set in post-apocalyptic Sweden. It ain't a bad game overall, especially in the first few hours but the longer you play the more you start to question its weird design decisions and unbalanced gameplay elements. Stealth focus in this game is so high that depending on your approach some encounters are either trivial or straight up impossible, even when it seems that they shouldn't be. This forces you to play a certain way (especially on higher difficulties) and limits player freedom in equipment and ability choice. For example, I had several frustrating moments where I wanted to shoot someone partially-hidden behind a wall but the game was giving me "NO CHANCE TO HIT" info box that prevented me from shooting them when my character had a heavy weapon capable of destroying covers. A single shot from that weapon at the wall would have obliterated it, but I simply couldn't do that. Another head-scratching moment I've encountered was in later stages of the DLC campaign when enemy health bars and armour values got so high that a generic mutated wild dog could easily take 3-4 shots from a railgun-like weapon while my character in heavy armour could die after getting hit by a single shot from the same gun. Gameplay and balance issues aside, the game's humour became annoying and heavily overused after first few hours, I'm talking about situations where you e.g. find an old boat in dried-out lake and one character in the party goes "StUpID hUmAnS bUiLd BoAt oN lAnD", or when they find an old blowtorch and say something about "ancient candles being inefficient". It could have been funny if it was done once (or differently in general) but the game just keeps throwing this type of humour at you constantly through its entire duration. On top of all that, the game is riddled with bugs and glitches, from AI losing path when you're in a building on the floor above them to UI getting stuck while trying to change grenades. Additonaly about every 4th encounter one of my characters would get spotted while they were sneaking behind a wall, or I would waste my action point because a character in my party suddenly forgot how to use a ladder and got stuck next to it. Its a shame that the game was left in this state after release, is has solid foundations and majority of my criticism could have been solved with a patch or two. In its current version, I can't recommend it.

The summary for this game is a strategy game without any strategy. Most of its issues stem from the very small squad size, 2 units initially then maxing out at just 3 units. Add to this enemies with large health pools and armour and what you end up with is repeated missions where you simply focus fire on the closest enemy with your entire squad to kill 1 enemy a turn. The small squad size means that any missed shots feel extra harsh, and a unit getting knocked down or mind controlled will remove a third of your damage and most likely lead to getting overrun. Progression also feels restricted due to limitations on how skills are equipped. Skills are typed, and only 1 of each type can be equipped. This often meant unlocks did nothing, as the small tech tree forces the player to unlock skills they don't want to progress to skills they do want. Between engagements you'll be scavenging the map for scrap, a significant time sink with no skill required other than staying awake. The magic of turn based tactics games comes from commanding a large and varied set of characters each with their owns strengths and weaknesses, then combining their abilities with the environment to make the player feel like a strategic genius. Here we have 3 mutants with roughly the same gun trading blows with similarly equipped foes. I didn't find the magic.

It's just so tedious, you are forced to play a very specific way or else you just get infinited by 16 robots or tazed by psykers from 40k, cant shred armor, which they forgot to steal from xcom like they did with every other system in the game, so tanky enemies can bowl thru your team, resources are very finite so you just run out of medkits then run out of money for medkits, try to stealth kill an enemy, you simply dont have the damage to do it so you have to take on the entire fortress. maybe its a skill issue, but as an xcom fan, it just seemed very spaghetti, uncohesive. i liked the world, liked the environment, but the systems need more. feels like the game was made for having 4 mutants at once and at the end someone just decided, "nah, lets only let them have 3" right before the game released.

Like others have said, there is only one way to successfully play this game, so you're not making tactical choices, you're just trying to guess what the developers had in mind for that specific encounter.

Genre - Turn based combat with stealth 5.5/10 Disappointingly boring and waste of good lore imo. I got this game a while back as loved the look of the game and the story sounded interesting. I'd read reviews that actually put me off trying the game. However, I thought I need to give it a proper try. All I can say is what a shame... The characters and setting are great, but the turn based combat that is the game has been made a boring chore. I get that you are a Stalker, and they want to encourage you to use stealth to pick off enemies. But the game has restricted the player too much with it's own mechanics. You get two guys at the start, only one has a silent weapon, so the other guy shouldn't be used until a fight kicks off. So imagine crawling around a map looking for loot and shooting enemies with one character. Now when a fight kicks off the game should get interesting, but it just doesn't. The enemies at the start (I assume they'll get worse later) are made up of charge at you with melee (fair enough) and high life camping snipers. The first lot are standard, but the snipers can kill you with two hits from a long range, take at least two hits from a close range and always go for cover. I just could not get into this game and ultimately found it boring, which is crazy as it could be right up my street. However, I am not really into stealth-centric games, so maybe if you like things like the Commando and Shadow Tactics series of games you will really enjoy it.

Ролевая игра с пошаговыми боями в очень интересном, постапокалиптическом сеттинге. Не очень люблю подобный жанр, но понравилась графика, понравилась цветовая гамма и решил попробовать сначала на торренте, а уже потом купил здесь. Все говорят, что похожа на игру ХСОМ, но я в неё ни разу не играл и особо сравнить мне не с чем. Может быть только с серией Divinity. Прикольные персонажи, которые тоже привлекают своим видом. Это огромный хряк и утка, типа танк и снайпер. Потом по ходу сюжета, вам добавляются новые спутники и их тоже можно использовать. Они между собой болтают и разбавляют прохождение сюжета. Металлолома (местный ресурс) не хватает, поэтому нужно шерстить все углы (буквально) и тогда получится хорошо апгрейдить оружия. Если вам нравятся тактические игры, то обязательно берите, но лично я проходил на несложных уровнях, так как эти бои итак затяжные и не темповые. Очень прикольный проект. Правда почему-то DLC стоит конских (для него) денег.

Being a casual gamer didn't help me enjoy the game. You need to be hyper focused and calculate exactly how to proceed before starting a fight that you still may lose. I bought that game years ago and got discouraged by its difficulty, I tried again yesterday and went a little further but yet, all the fights I see in my path now has a close to 0% chance of win for my style of play. Do not recommend if all you want is pew pew at monsters...

-기대를 아예 안하고 해서 그런지 아주 재미있게 플레이함. 선호하는건 일본식 파엠계열인데 서양쪽도 의외로 괜찮다는 걸 알게 됨. 그리고 약간 암살방식의 1명씩 끊어치기가 중요한데 내가 암살겜을 좋아해서 더 재미있었던 것 같음. (엑스컴이 낫다고 많이들 말씀하시는데 나는 엑스컴을 해보지 않아서 그런 거 같기도 함.) 난이도 및 도전과제 - 1회차에 도과 100% 할려면 최고난이도+철인으로 해야 함. - 어렵다고 해서 템이랑 돈 같은거 비상시를 위해 최대한 안쓰고 플레이 했는데 엔딩까지 구급키트 1개 쓰고 고철도 800남음, (게임이 쉬운건 아닌데 그렇다고 고전 게임들처럼 영걸전에서 레벨노가다 진행안하고 낙봉파에서 방통살리기나 4차로봇대전에서 게임오버 노가다 전혀 안하고 태양계방면 총사령관 제제난 각하를 물리쳤더니 슈우가 네오그랑존 타고 나오는 정도의 난이도는 아님) - 암살 열심히 하고 동료들 기술 쿨타임 올때까지 돌려쓰기 하고 암살도 무조건 하는게 아니라 강적이랑 싸우고 기술 다 쓰고 나면 쿨타임 도는 시간에 암살, 그리고 시체 주워먹기 등 세세하게 플레이 할 경우, 아마 꼴박했으면 자원이랑 템이 안남았을 거 같음. - dlc 시드 오브 데빌은 철인모드만 플레이 하면 난이도 관계없이 도과 달성 가능. - 본편에서 바로 넘어가는 것과 시드 오브 데빌을 처음부터 플레이 하는 게 있는데 구급킷 안쓰고 깨는 도과를 최고 난이도로 깰 자신은 없어서 나는 dlc는 새로 시작함. 새로 시작하면 아이템 어느 정도 주어지고 레벨이나 기술 스킬이 맘대로 찍혀 있긴 한데 어차피 나중에 포인트 남아돔. - 본편에서 못 모은 수집품은 dlc에서도 모을 수 있을거 같긴 한데 가급적 본편에서 다 모으고 가는 걸 추천, 본편에서 다 모았으면 새로 시작하기 해도 그 아이템이나 문서 등이 없어도 도과 조건 달성시 모은 걸로 인정해 줌. - 모자 다 모으기 도전과제는 먹었다고 바로 따지는 건 아니고 전투 한 번 하고 나니까 따졌음.

Changing my original review (kept original text below). I absolutely loved this game. Gameplay is solid, and enjoyable. I fell in love with setting, atmosphere and soundtrack. An absolute masterpiece in world-building! However, 10 hours in I hit a game breaking bug where I was unable to proceed to the metal fields, effectively soft-locking me out of the game. This is an issue that has been widely reported on several forums and discussion boards now for several years, and still seems to persist to this day (with no way to resolve it, beyond effectively redoing massive parts of the game in hopes that it works when you encounter it again - no even guarenteed). The fact that I enjoyed it this much makes this even more frustrating. Original Review Below: Had this in my library for a while now, only got around to playing it recently. Regret that I took this long to get around to it. Fantastic game.