The review was written while the game was still in development.
As I understand it, we are waiting for something like Fallout Tactics, which at one time was not very popular with players. Well, from the trailers it looks pretty good. These deserts, different ways of interacting with objects, interesting combat, but still it seems to me that this will be a pass-through game, they will hype it a little for the first week, and then forget it