Xotic

Xotic is an ancient console (Xbox 360) game from 2011. It's a whopping 13 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for the typical features of modern gaming PCs, hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on contemporary machines. The game looks and feels dated. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an old game. This seems to have be lingering on Steam with an inflated price to try profit from abandonware. This is a weird shooter where apparently your gun is an insect, because, I dunno, they thought that's what Xbox 360 gamers really wanted was a shooter but your gun is a bug. They were wrong. And while FPS games are great, somehow they just went way wide of the mark, going for gimmicks and combos rather than just tying the game to a strong and rich narrative. Developers still have to learn that content is king. On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers. The controls and game handling are notably very clunky, sluggish and unsmooth here. It's janky and unsatisfying to play... and any experienced gamer will tell you, the handling, responsiveness and general gameplay feel of the control scheme must be well polished for this kind of game to succeed. Unfortunately, this is something the developer seems to have phoned in, with little to no apparent gameplay testing. They dropped the ball on this one. Because this is designed for consoles, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the inferior console gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the console-centric developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for consoles forces upon a game. Once more, console peasants have made gaming worse for everyone. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 8 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? Xotic is relatively expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $10 USD, and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. For comparison, the $10 asking price for this game could get you games like "Assassin's Creed: Odyssey", "Mass Effect Trilogy Pack" or "Stellaris". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

[h1]Overall Rating - 3/10[/h1] [h1]Buy rating - only on a deep discount.[/h1] [h1]Length - Plenty of content.[/h1] This games engine hasn't aged too well, besides the engine being ugly the UI is not the greatest, it gets in the way of things. Overall there are just too many things going on with score, power ups, bonuses, and chains. All I did was shoot the red egg things, and the bad guys... was hard to tell when I was winning still though based on all the flashes, noise, and random voice. [b]Pros[/b] [list] [*]Ran well [*]Pretty colors [/list] [b]Cons[/b] [list] [*]Ugly UI [*]Too confusing, nothing is streamlined gameplay wise. [/list] Better games in this genre for sure.

I had this game in my backlog from years ago somehow, probably from a bundle. Blasted through all of it in one go. This is a relatively boring treasure hunt with first person shooter mechanics and a leaderboard.

Liczyłem na coś w stylu kłejka a grze bliżej do trackamni. Musimy zebrać jak najwicej punktów a te wypadają z różnych zniszczonych obiektów na mapie albo z wrogów, jest też premia za celność i za ukończenie planszy w określonym czasie. Po ukończeniu mapy dostajemy punkty doświadczenia które możemy przeznaczyć na rozwój broni albo postaci. Szkoda że to nie jest typowy FPS bo samo poruszanie się postaci i strzelanie jest zrobione dobrze.

A bizarre biopunk themed arcade score attack fps. It's sloppy in places, but has a ton of charm.

Yes!

I like the style. For arcade orientated players.

i couldn't into this game. it just felt lacking to me. nice visuals and all just the concept wasn't there for me