It is not a great game, it is very average in its entirety and bad in many of its aspects. I want to highlight some of the negatives which are present in this game. Reviewers seem to universally fail to judge this game critically.
First of all, graphics are quite dated. Models are blurred, poorly detailed even for stylistic approach this game goes for. It also has an issue of certain models or cut scenes being completely blurred out showing poor graphical fidelity and lack of finish. In addition, despite game going for more cartoonish look, colours are very desaturated. It looks like Call of Duty Cartoon edition. Game just looks quite bad for a modern day video game.
Second issue is in its technical issues. You can’t alt tab game without risk of crashing. From screen freezes to desync issues happening with alt-tabbing. Game is backwards to use, you can’t just create character without going into new game and going through cut scenes. Game modes and settings are all done in a backwards fashion which makes it difficult to find something when needed. Furthermore, it does not allow to skip cinematics, so be prepared for a really slow start. Initial impression of this game in 2021 was quite poor, game aged poorly from technical standpoint.
Another problem is within game balance or rather lack of it. Game does not scale mobs according to your level and mobs have exponential power growth curve balanced according to your level or gear level with possibly flat multipliers in +10% damage done to you -10% damage taken according to their level. This forces you to grind sidequests and prevents you from doing main story quests. This raises additional problem that zones are level gated. Some zones are too hard or impossible while others become trivial. Mobs are not scaled to your level, but game requires you to grind sidequests. This means that there is precious little balancing done.
Map system is broken. There are list of all points you can teleport to. Their names are hardly memorable, there is no information which zone has what kind of mobs. It means that you have to go blind across zones. Even worse when game has DLC which it puts on a map like a common zone. This means that after finish story line, map is filled with marks and you literally can’t find content you paid for. Even then this content has a serious problem of you needing to be of a very precise level. This means that you either know exactly when to go there or content simply is non challenging and it does not drop any gear for you.
Another issue is lack of decent gear. In roughly 30 hours of play during three player co-op we only got 1 legendary! That is quite shameful of loot shooter. Without golden keys itemisation would had been absolutely terrible. We got decent gear only because we basically cheated. In this game bosses drop nothing good. Loot system can drop very good thing for other classes, but you do not play them. There isn’t even a proper stash to put away items for other classes. Itemisation in this game does not work at all and you will find yourself with boring weapons, being unable to get or farm weapons you want for your character and build. Weapons which you get are also quite boring as they lack special effects and combinations. The only combination was shotgun – sniper…. Yeah, game designers were terrible.
Lack of interesting characters. Classes in this game are just boring. They do not have much of dialogue nor they have interesting skills. You have ONLY 1 ability. This barely helps to make class identity and quite often your skill points are very boring. Put a skill point to do +2 weapon damage. Yeah, thanks, but no. System is very bad and it is a poor copy of better systems.
Story and writing tends to be quite bad. Quests go nowhere. At one point Jack starts talking about finding someone to be the Warrior, but that goes nowhere. We try to steal vault key only to forget about it halfway. Story is inconsistent and very forgettable. Dialogue is also very poorly written. We are supposed to care about Jack when we kill “his baby girl”, but till that point he shown no emotion outside of “evil”. It falls completely flat like most of the humour in this game. Writers tend to outdo themselves by making as silly and as wacky dialogue as they can. However, it falls flat, because it has no pacing. It is just joke after joke after joke. Characters try to be funny all the time and in the end they become flat and boring all the time. Furthermore, writing and jokes seem to be written for kids. Writing is extremely predictable and we could call all plot twists in advance. We could even tell what writers are going to joke about before it even happens. Writing is quite weak in this game and does not work for adults at all. However, game puts some efforts into it and that alone makes it better than nothing, it breaks complete monotony of a such game where you just grind, grind, grind.
While I’m being very negative here, my review is meant solely to highlight issues which this game has, because I can’t seem to find anyone reviewing this game properly besides me.
First of all, graphics are quite dated. Models are blurred, poorly detailed even for stylistic approach this game goes for. It also has an issue of certain models or cut scenes being completely blurred out showing poor graphical fidelity and lack of finish. In addition, despite game going for more cartoonish look, colours are very desaturated. It looks like Call of Duty Cartoon edition. Game just looks quite bad for a modern day video game.
Second issue is in its technical issues. You can’t alt tab game without risk of crashing. From screen freezes to desync issues happening with alt-tabbing. Game is backwards to use, you can’t just create character without going into new game and going through cut scenes. Game modes and settings are all done in a backwards fashion which makes it difficult to find something when needed. Furthermore, it does not allow to skip cinematics, so be prepared for a really slow start. Initial impression of this game in 2021 was quite poor, game aged poorly from technical standpoint.
Another problem is within game balance or rather lack of it. Game does not scale mobs according to your level and mobs have exponential power growth curve balanced according to your level or gear level with possibly flat multipliers in +10% damage done to you -10% damage taken according to their level. This forces you to grind sidequests and prevents you from doing main story quests. This raises additional problem that zones are level gated. Some zones are too hard or impossible while others become trivial. Mobs are not scaled to your level, but game requires you to grind sidequests. This means that there is precious little balancing done.
Map system is broken. There are list of all points you can teleport to. Their names are hardly memorable, there is no information which zone has what kind of mobs. It means that you have to go blind across zones. Even worse when game has DLC which it puts on a map like a common zone. This means that after finish story line, map is filled with marks and you literally can’t find content you paid for. Even then this content has a serious problem of you needing to be of a very precise level. This means that you either know exactly when to go there or content simply is non challenging and it does not drop any gear for you.
Another issue is lack of decent gear. In roughly 30 hours of play during three player co-op we only got 1 legendary! That is quite shameful of loot shooter. Without golden keys itemisation would had been absolutely terrible. We got decent gear only because we basically cheated. In this game bosses drop nothing good. Loot system can drop very good thing for other classes, but you do not play them. There isn’t even a proper stash to put away items for other classes. Itemisation in this game does not work at all and you will find yourself with boring weapons, being unable to get or farm weapons you want for your character and build. Weapons which you get are also quite boring as they lack special effects and combinations. The only combination was shotgun – sniper…. Yeah, game designers were terrible.
Lack of interesting characters. Classes in this game are just boring. They do not have much of dialogue nor they have interesting skills. You have ONLY 1 ability. This barely helps to make class identity and quite often your skill points are very boring. Put a skill point to do +2 weapon damage. Yeah, thanks, but no. System is very bad and it is a poor copy of better systems.
Story and writing tends to be quite bad. Quests go nowhere. At one point Jack starts talking about finding someone to be the Warrior, but that goes nowhere. We try to steal vault key only to forget about it halfway. Story is inconsistent and very forgettable. Dialogue is also very poorly written. We are supposed to care about Jack when we kill “his baby girl”, but till that point he shown no emotion outside of “evil”. It falls completely flat like most of the humour in this game. Writers tend to outdo themselves by making as silly and as wacky dialogue as they can. However, it falls flat, because it has no pacing. It is just joke after joke after joke. Characters try to be funny all the time and in the end they become flat and boring all the time. Furthermore, writing and jokes seem to be written for kids. Writing is extremely predictable and we could call all plot twists in advance. We could even tell what writers are going to joke about before it even happens. Writing is quite weak in this game and does not work for adults at all. However, game puts some efforts into it and that alone makes it better than nothing, it breaks complete monotony of a such game where you just grind, grind, grind.
While I’m being very negative here, my review is meant solely to highlight issues which this game has, because I can’t seem to find anyone reviewing this game properly besides me.