PRE:ONE

We enjoyed the weird story of PRE:ONE, and it's a very interesting and different world that PDDS has created. However, the controls and shooting are very wonky. You'll often find yourself stuck on (or in) the environment, and it's never clear when you are or aren't hitting enemies with your shots, as the environment will often block bullets even when you have a clear shot. This is made worse by the checkpoint system, which often results in you having to replay large sections when you die (which will likely happen often). I really want to recommend PRE:ONE because it provides good entertainment and an interesting story, particularly for this price point. However, the actual gameplay keeps me from hitting that thumbs up. It's far too unpolished at the moment, and I doubt most people would be willing to deal with this for the interesting story. If you'd like to see some gameplay before making your decision, check out our gameplay video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz39JEzI-Uw

You play as a robot called Pray. Condering the low price i wasn't expecting too much from this ,most open world -ish type games require a lot of work to reach a pont were they become a game worth playing by the masses ,hence they can cost a lot more than this did. I would say the guy who made this obviously has talent and does seem to be on the right track ,though this game does require a fair bit more work imho It's not easy to fully understand what is going on as the translation to English is pretty bad ,maybe it's something that can be improved in the future. You sort of understand it but it doesn't do much for immersion when you're sligthly befuddled by bad translation.. Edit: recent update addressed some of the issues with English subs. It doesn't appear to have a key-config options at the moment either so if you don't like WASD (like me ) you might have to use a third-party program to change it. It does have a fov slider of sorts but i turned it to 100% and it was still making me feel nauseous ,though it's possible the nausea i was feeling had started before so maybe it would be a good idea to adjust the fov before you start playing. EDIT:FOV VALUE HAS BEEN INCREASED IN UPDATE v.1.0.1. It has an opening cut-scene which i thought was ok but then it's spoilt by text running off the screen to left and right (1920x1080) and that bad translation i mentioned. Text that came afterwards while in-game appeared correctly. In-game movement of your charcter feels ok ,it was one of the first things i liked about it coupled with the sound effects for your charcter's (robot) footsteps . After reading some very short messages on a couple of computer screens that are scattered around and picking up what i assume was bullets i ran into my first gun-inplacement after climbing onto some platform and it nearly wiped me out ,even if you just peeked around the corner it would target you precisely. My health quickly jumped form 100% to 5% . I had to back-track to grab some of the health that was lying around ,which i don't think there is a lot of. It does say on the store page that the game has a high difficulty ,so.... Anyway i had to stop playing after 15mins due to nausea :) I think the game has potential to be a fun game at a cheap price but as i said , it does need a lot more work . The dev has already released a hotfix on day one +another update to increase fov so i presume we'll see more updates/improvements . EDIT: New V1.02 update also has some fixes for the Eng. translation. + some other fixes. EDIT: Just a heads-up: Game has received continuous updates/improvements ,as of August 2019. A lot of the issues i had have been fixed or improved. My original review was April.2018 so it's pretty cool that updates have continued to this day.