Game is not "bad" it's just not for me, I'm a very hardcore tactical player, and I thought this was something like a tactical game by reading other reviews before buying, let me explain (TL;DR at bottom):
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PROS:
- HUD is helpful, clean and smooth, there are a lot of keys to memorize but they are always on display so that's always nice.
- Runs nicely, no weird stutters or game breaking bugs.
- Map is detailed and environment is 9/10
- Dialogs and localization are ok, sometimes they are a little weird but it's nowhere near Ghost Recon Breakpoint, that's cringe AF.
CONS:
- You have the same cover mechanism as Splinter Cell Conviction, where you can run from cover to cover with the push a button BUT you can't move freely crouching you can only crouch automatically under cover, It's weird.
- I know it's a looter shooter but it's weird to go running around with 1000 rounds of your assault rifle, if you somehow manage to spend all ammo of your 2 weapons in a skirmish, you can switch from inventory to another type: SMG, shotgun, etc...and you have a ton of bullets of that too, also your 3 weapon, a gun has infinite ammo, this just breaks inmersion.
- Stealth has no use, you can put supressors to weapons, but a headshot will only kill and enemy if it has like 5 levels less than you, you can't do missions on stealth.
- Missions are the same over and over, I'm lvl 14, did like all 10 missions. All seems the same: Go to Point, kill all, kill boss, defend position from reinforcements, kill boss of reinforcements, leave mission area. Freeing checkpoints is also that. And recovering Tech to improve abilities is also the same: set point on GPS, go break a padlock and open box.
- Also as missions are the same game always plays the same go all guns blazing, at this point I'm I can shoot my AR non stop, with buffs from parts and equipment it has no recoil whatsoever, every bullet goes in like a laser, it gets boring quickly.
- Abilities are OP too, send a drone and the enemies life bar goes down in a moment, cause the enemies apparently can't shoot the drone or the turret either, they stay in cover and take all shots.
-AI: enemies are dumb, like I said before, once you get detected, they get to cover, peak and shoot you and cover again, repeat, drones, grenades, doesn't matter, won't move and they take the blow like a champ. If they are melee enemies they rush to you and get destroyed, if you set up a turret they wont avoid it, just take and bullets they can get. Physics are good though.
- Lots of positive reviews state that there are a ton of things to do, it's true, the menu and map is packed with diferents things to do: missions, secondary missions, tech retrieve, liberation, projects...a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lot [b](some behind paywall)[/b] but it's the same over and over, like I said earlier, just change the place and the boss name.
- PvP mode: I didn't try cause I don't care.
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TL;DR: It's a looter shooter with 1% of tactical aspect, you are OP and barely need to cover or use any ability, story is kill A, then kill B, then kill C, etc...
If you, like me, enjoy exploring, studying the best approach, doing things stealthily it's not the game for you.
