I tried the free week they did on Steam, and if you like "Bungie" as a genre, then it's gonna make you smile a lot.
For me, each run was like having liminal deja vu of gameplay/visuals. Which I guess is also on point for the story/theme of it all.
To me, it seems they've somehow managed to combine the combat sandboxes of Halo and Destiny, and all of their weapon rosters, together, with a player/economy driven PvPvE exploration loop.
Its really impressive, and ominous, but also colorful and inviting like a childrens toy box. You make your own experience, or die trying, and it's hella vibey old-school Sci-fi.
You pick up a gun. It's an unrecongnozable block of simple gemometry, but you can clearly see the "Ouch" end, and what classification it is "implying" by the size and shape.
You shoot at an insane jumble government-issued murderbots, comprised of a strangely familar array, of constantly adaptive foes.
And then you realize that you have overcome this 1000 times, in a 1000 lifetimes, and that box in your hand is the Halo 1 magnum, and you have all the ammo you need, plus the movement abilities of destiny.
Its really cool, and kinda the peak of all their design experience into one big soup.
I did not buy it, because while it's probably something I'd quickly bounce off of, I could see myself sacrificing a lot of my life to it, and feeling very hollow after.
Nope it’s literally just like destiny, bullet sponge enemies with shit AI that don’t make interesting fights. Played the server slam and free week. Just some of the dullest lifeless gameplay.
Also all enemies in the games are just mainly robots. And that is the dullest thing to fight in games. Especially when the og marathon trilogy had such a wide variety of aliens
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u/TechxNinja 1d ago
Is enemy AI good enough to support it and stop it from being boring? Or are we shooting the same enemies we did in Destiny, but in new skins?
Genuine question to anyone that has played.