When I bought this game, I had a slightly biased attitude, because the Internet was already full of all kinds of reviews and someone called this part one of the best in the series, and someone called it one of the worst games in the gazebo. But I completed it for about half a year (about 25 hours, I played it slowly and savoring it every hour) I realized that those who spoke badly about this game played it for a maximum of a couple of hours, while constantly comparing it with the first parts, which in fact were not only made by another studio, but were also in a different genre .And so let's talk first about the advantages, and then about the disadvantages.
Pros:
1. Atmosphere - so you understand, in my personal rating for atmosphere, it stands next to the metro and stalkers, in comparison with the third part with its green-swamp filter (God, how I hate three rubles for this) atmosphere It was very busy, all this music, shabby signs, architecture, cars and other little things like soda machines. This immediately creates a picture of the “American Dream”.
2. The gameplay is very diverse, no matter how it is an RPG, I completed the game with additional tasks in about 60 hours. And it’s very cool that the game doesn’t dictate to you how to play, it just throws you into the wasteland and actually figure it out as you want .In terms of gameplay, it can be like a leisurely blues - calm, tube, sad, or it can be like the ace of spades of a motorhead band - dirty, driving and sharp. Plus a wide variety of armor, weapons and modifications for them. I would also like to say about skills here everything is according to the classics - open a new level, get points and upgrade your skills. Another RPG cliche is factions, this is implemented well here, but there are really adequate camps for which you want to play at most 2-3, although that was enough for me. I’ll separately say about the settlement system which many have reviled, as for me it does not spoil the game, but rather adds variety, if you are not interested in it then the game does not force you (except for one five-minute mission for the entire game where you are simply introduced to the mechanics)
3. The environment is buildings, opponents, etc. Everything is simple, unusual and varied, I’ll say separately about the buildings, going back to the three ruble rubles where abandoned cities were mostly just decorations and to Vegas where there were a couple of settlements and one and a half huts throughout the entire desert, here you can go into so many houses .
4. GROPHON - didn’t disappoint
And the top downsides:
1. The plot - even a person who wasn’t fed up with plots didn’t like it, and there are a couple of TWISTS, but that doesn’t save it. The plot is pretty boring.
2. This is not so much a minus as a warning - if you are an oldfag who played the first two parts, then buy this game at your own peril and risk, it’s too different.