A lot of people gave this game a negative review, causing me to hesitate before buying this. Am I glad I did buy the game though.
TL;DR
This is a niche game and not for everyone. Be ready for a few minor bug, your standard unreal engine CTD, the grind for resources and building an epic base to slaughter waves of enemies. If you are on the fence, watch some videos, wait for a discount. However there is absolutely fun to be had int his game, I never expected to come up to 100 hours into the game, I still need to finish the story so I will be getting more hours in. For me personally, it is worth full price.
More in depth:
The criticism I mentioned at the beginning is valid, glitches like loot being stuck inside scenery happens frequent enough. It is by no means game breaking however. I have had a few CTD happen, but not so many that I stopped playing. In terms of customization, some weapons are very much better then others, some turrets are useless compared to others. The same is true for the classes of your operatives. The RNG element to recruiting means you pretty much always have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ operatives anyway, and no way to fix or upgrade them. Moreover, when you do find a good operative, you better be ready to lose the operative permanently if you ever die or don't make it out of the battlefield.
Voice acting: Some people called it trash, or the worst ever. I think this is a little unfair, the voice acting itself is so so, not really good, but I have certainly heard worse. I think what bothers people is that the lip-sync is off, and many voice lines simply repeat during missions, the most common line will be 'The enemy has spotted you; hostiles incoming' followed by 'Phew, that was close, better take a breather' after you decimated these hunter dogs with ease (Note: these dogs can be dangerous, especially early game!). It doesn't bother me too much.
This next part can be a negative or a positive, it concerns the grind.
You will be busy gathering loot a lot. This can be considered boring, if you dislike this grind there is the option to auto loot, making you gain less loot but saving hours of your time. Personally I usually manually loot, because I am OK with the grind up to this point. The looking for resources makes the positives more worth it for me, so I accepted the grind as part of the process to a better base.
So after all that, why do I recommend the game?
I really like the progression style, you get to design your own base, you could download those that others made too, your choice, I personally started building my own, and for me this is the best part of the game, watching your own base, for which you grinded the resources too, stand against waves of enemies. Progress is balanced between slapping more turrets on your base and doing the many story line to get better turrets. This means that you can overpower the early levels, or parts where you are stuck but simply bringing more. Having done this early in the game and taking my time to progress through the story I found the game relaxing with the exceptions of 2 points in the main story where enemies scale significantly in strength. In both cases I needed 1 retry to get through due to upgrading my base. This often means setting up the ROE for your turrets and/or adding an extra turret or 2, but never underestimate the ROE.
