Against my better judgement, I have completed each level in this game and have acquired the gold in each individual level. This is my assessment of this game:
1.5/10
Story:
While there is a story displayed here in the description of the game, there is no story given in game. There are level selections from the main menu that you chose to play. Each level you play as an unnamed soldier that runs and guns through the level to collect a pile of gold. Each level has their own map, but no contiguous story attached.
Gameplay:
As said before, you play as a soldier that runs through the level, shoots the bad guys, and collects a pile of gold. The gameplay can be best compared to ARMA 3, but stripped bare to its most basic elements - third/first person firefighting, an inventory system, and infrared/night vision modes.
The inventory system gives you a whopping 6 inventory slots. You will only use it to stache ammo and grenades, as there is no reason to carry weapons with you. Each throwable can be stacked, ammo can be stacked. There is no way to pick up ammo from enemies. The only way to retrieve ammo is by looting it from random tables with preset items strewn across it in a very not so pretty fashion. There is a slot for a backpack, but in my experience playing, there is no way to either loot or craft a backpack.
Speaking of crafting, there is an entire crafting system I assume is not implemented that I found by accident by pressing the M key. As far as I found, there are no items to pick up off of the ground or from enemies, so I could not craft any items during gameplay.
You have 3 meters at the top left of your screen:
- Stamina
- Unknown meter A
- Unknown meter B
Stamina regenerates extremely slowly. Unknown meter B seemingly drains over time. I'm unsure what Unknown meter A does.
You are a bullet sponge, and you'll never know how much health you have left. The screen will go fuzzy, and then you will flop over and die when you absorb enough damage. There is no indicator other than the fuzzy screen that will tell you that you are low on health.
You can blow up tanks with land mines, when they decide to work. Otherwise, you can blow them up with grenades. Otherwise, you can blow them up with other tanks after the game RNG rolls to decide that you hit them.
Speaking of tanks, you can use vehicles in this game.
- The Fighter Jet:
Will explode on contact with anything, and is useless except for transportation. You will NOT be able to combat anyone in the plane. You will fly it at top speed and then promptly receive constant incoming damage from unavoidable missiles and a constant barrage of machine gunning from behind until you either explode or eject from the plane. Upon ejecting, you'll free fall like a piece of paper until you either hit the ground or press F to open your parachute. There is no warning, you must KNOW the button to open the parachute. Good luck.
- The Tank:
Moves at the equivalent of walking speed. The reload speed for shells is painfully slow. The tank shells can only blow up vehicles, and will not kill enemy soldiers unless they explode from a nearby vehicle. The machine gun will decimate soldiers, but you'll never figure out it's the Spacebar key until you visit the training level. It will never explode with you in it, because it has a ton of health and nothing will threaten you inside of it, as other tanks only barely dent your health.
- The Car:
You will move at the speed of the jet, and you will not be able to brake unless you use the handbrake which you'll never know is the Spacebar key until you visit the training level. If you do not use the handbrake, you will slip and slide as though you were driving on ice. Due to the awful physics in the game, you will go flying in the car if you hit anything sloped, and also flip around if you hit a wall or an enemy. Yes, that's correct. You cannot run over enemies. They are solid as stone if you attempt to drive over them. It's awful when they break your momentum. You also cannot fix your car when it's lifted off the ground or flipped upside down. It is stuck forever then.
The guns that are available in the game is as follows:
- Machine gun
- Machine gun, but more ammo?
- Pistol (Desert Eagle quality)
- Sniper
You'll always kill an enemy instantly if you headshot them. The sniper will kill on body shot.
There is a First Person Mode, if you press the Z key. It is completely unnecessary, and you won't use it. If you do, and if you even attempt to scope in to shoot, you won't be able to see where you're shooting after the first shot, as the recoil on the gun throws your reticle all over the place.
In 3rd person mode, the reticle does not accurately show where your bullets fly.
If you die, you will respawn at the beginning of the level, and the level will not respawn vehicles or enemies killed. Some levels require vehicles, so you will end up restarting the level anyways, and restarting the level anyways will respawn enemies and NOT enemy vehicles. Huge oversight.
There is no way to heal in this game. You will "heal" over time, but I can't tell if you really do or not, because if the screen gets fuzzy, it'll unfuzz, but then immediately fuzz up again when an enemy shoots me.
Enemies have hawkeye accuracy, and they will NOT miss. Enemy tanks have the worst accuracy and sometimes do not shoot downwards, until they decide they have master accuracy and will hit you with every bullet killing you instantly.
There are no markers for where to go. You will be walking around for a while just trying to figure out where the heck you're supposed to be going. Sometimes it's possible to just drop out of a plane directly atop of the gold and win instantly. Either it's extremely hard to win or extremely easy, no in betweens.
Graphics:
The graphics in the game are stock, and I have no doubt about it. The mountains clip into themselves, and some just aren't even on the ground, and you can walk underneath them. All duplicated assets appear identical to each other. Water will simply stop existing where the developer decided they didn't want to put water anymore. Some levels will have identical assets to other levels, and some levels will have flat expanses of land that will simply cease existing. The quality of the textures are not so great. There were many levels I got stuck in and had to restart the mission.
Animations are janky as all hell. When you kill an enemy, their head will spin around constantly as they're on the floor. When you die, if you were pressing a direction, your camera will stop and you'll see your body flip around all over the place and roll about on the floor. Ragdoll physics gone wrong.
Broken vehicles are simply vehicles with a black texture over them to "look burnt". It looks awful.
Sometimes, my grenades simply do not explode, resulting in them just disappearing.
The win screen is a static image basically saying, "You got the gold, you win!" and then back to menu. No fanfare, just an achievement.
In each level, your only hint on what to do is a text box asset telling you loosely where to go in broken English.
The main menu is garbage and bare minimum, the level select screen bugs out the Credits option, the Credits option does not work and only shows Valkeala Software and then stops working.
Animations on your character look extremely funny.
Music/Sound design:
Repetitive and boring. There is more than one track in the game, but the track loops constantly and drones on. It is not cool or enticing. One time, my music didn't even load, so the level was played in ultimate silence.
The sound of the machine gun is awful and it will be the only sound you hear in the game besides your own gun, since all enemies use the machine gun.
There are pretty much no other sounds or music in the game.
This game is clearly a scam and thrown together to appear better than it is. Please do not purchase it. It is not even worth $0.59.
