Transience

Possibly the worst shooter I've ever Played

There are multiple issues that prevent me from recommending this: A) Unless you plan on playing for at least 30 minutes at a time, the splash screens are unbearable B) There is a bug where right mouse and left mouse inputs just don't register so aiming and shooting occasionally do not work. In addition to that, headshots are wildly inconsistent. I somehow land more headshots than I have kills, meaning that sometimes, it takes several bullets to put down an enemy using a headshot with very little, if any visual feedback that you hit them. C) You are meant to be fighting a coordinated force yet CoD Games from the early 2010s have better coordination AND stealth mechanics. D) AI is twitchy and deadly accurate. I once had a dude do a 90-degree one-tap on me from several yards away. While others manage to one-tap me the second I walk into their view. This is on the regular difficulty. (the one in the middle in the difficulty select screen) Personally, I just do not vibe with the stealth mechanics. I completed level 1 and level 2, and they introduced drones on level 3 and I just don't imagine myself continuing to play the game after that. Which is unfortunate because the gunplay is actually pretty nice, but I can't rush into combat knowing that there is a chance my weapon just doesn't shoot.

The game lacks clear direction, the AI is frustrating, and the difficulty is completely unbalanced. Even on Easy difficulty, the game feels far too hard. It tries to combine the slow, methodical gameplay of Splinter Cell with the tactical combat of Rainbow Six and a bit of FEAR, but the result doesn't work. There are simply too many enemies for this style of gameplay. You die extremely quickly, and the very first combat encounter took me over a dozen attempts. Stealth is also disappointing. Hiding in the shadows should make you much harder to detect, but enemies seem to spot you almost instantly. Their reaction times are unrealistically fast, and their accuracy feels like they're all expert snipers. Combat in tight corridors is especially frustrating. Open areas work a little better, but not when the game throws 20+ enemies at you in a single section, that can spot even in vents from long distance. At times, it even feels like enemies are endlessly respawning. Getting the suit makes the game more enjoyable, but then the developers start packing over 50 enemies into small areas. They can accurately snipe you with pistols and MP5s from surprising distances, which makes fights feel more unfair than challenging. I also ran into a terrible checkpoint. Every time I respawned, there was already an enemy standing directly in front of me who immediately opened fire, while two more enemies were positioned behind me. It was an incredibly frustrating section to get through because I was taking damage the moment I loaded in. The shield injection system is bad. You can't carry enough shield injections to deal with the amount of combat the game throws at you, and each one only restores about 30% of your armor. Ammo is another issue. The game follows the old Splinter Cell logic of giving you only one to three bullets from defeated enemies, but that design doesn't fit a game that constantly rushes you with groups of eight or more enemies. You're almost always running low on ammunition. The alert system is also lacking. The "!" and "?" icons don't tell you whether an area has actually been cleared, leaving you guessing if it's safe to move on. Easy difficulty doesn't feel easy—it doesn't even feel like a normal difficulty setting. Finally, the game's tone tries very hard to be cool, but despite the effort put into the story presentation, it never becomes particularly engaging. There are optimization issues, it slowed down in some areas for some reasons. If you're looking for a good tactical singleplayer shooter, I'd recommend Rainbow Six Vegas or SWAT 4 instead. This game isn't difficult because of slow movement, gunplay and player's patience requirement—it's difficult because of poor design. I give it 4.5/10, and I would rather play garbage like Soldier of Fortune Payback and have more fun.

Nice "short" stealth shooter. Plays well and the story was easy to follow. Played this AFTER Trepang2 and I have to say you should DEFINITELY consider a prequel game.

I'm going to finish it because i bought it. After that, i'm gonna delete it and hide it from my list of games so i don't have to see it again. I thought Ready or not's AI was bad on launch but at least it was playable. This seems like the most basic npc movements were copped and pasted into into the game and the dev just called it day. Honestly the only redeeming Piece of this has been the shooting. Which is funny, since this is meant to be a Stealth game, were your encouraged to SNEAK. Or maybe I'm wrong about that, what with the Slow Mo and knock off Crysis suit (the armor only part of course).

I cannot recommend this game at any price currently due to how incredibly buggy it is. In my 85 minutes playtime I experienced about 11 gameplay impacting bugs. This is somehow worse than Bethesda's usual bug fiestas

just not very fun even on easy its a nightmare to get anywhere

Its like dishonored if it made out with cyberpunk for a few minutes and then claimed to be in a committed relationship with it, it inherited the bugs but did not get the good story or many things that make cyberpunk good. The gameplay is fun but the ai is ♥♥♥♥. I cant really recommend it to anyone because I dislike supporting the entity that is bigfry. It is a demo posing as a full game. The guns are cool asf though but it seems like all the effort went into making the guns feel good and not, yknow, anything else.