Recent reviews by UNCLE SAM

This part of the game made me really fall in love with this series of games. If we talk about the two previous parts 2033 and Last Light, then I have much more general impressions, emotions and feelings of euphoria in Exodus. Despite minor shortcomings, the game really impresses with its elaboration: a well-thought-out plot, dialogues, good detailing of the world, in general, good gameplay; All this - in full makes you fall in love with the game, and spend many hours in it. After watching the final cut-scene, there were no negative emotions, I didn’t want to immediately close and delete the game, no, it was a real feeling of delight from the fact that I went through a really good game that I really liked. In general, the plot, as I already said, is thought out, it is clear that it was not written in a couple of days, Glukhovsky is well done, everything is done with high quality. The main characters also fell in love during the game, remembered for their "real" emotions and feelings that they shared. While playing, he fully merged into the story, imbued with the feelings of the characters. All in all, a very high quality game that I have ever had a chance to play.

DLC - Two Colonels
At the end of this expansion, most likely, only the most insensitive people cannot get goosebumps, well, or those who played just like that, without thinking, skipping dialogues, and just ran forward and shot right and left. The ending really made me feel a sense of euphoria, which I think I experienced in few games. That Khlebnikov and Melnikov are good people who left only a positive imprint on me, despite Artyom's some dissatisfaction with the second, during the passage of the main plot. In general, the addition made me very happy, and made me experience no less emotions than the story with Artem.

DLC - Sam's Story
The second and last addition, pleased no less than the previous one, which I had already gone through, as it also made me experience a lot of positive emotions during the gameplay. Despite the fact that the ending impressed me less than in the main plot and in "The Two Colonels", nevertheless, I can say that, on the whole, a good addition that will impress everyone who will go through it and merge into Sam's story, into his difficult and the thorny path that he overcame. It doesn't matter how you act during the whole game, at the very end, you will have the opportunity to choose one of two endings, which one to choose is up to you, and it's great that you yourself can somehow "determine" the future fate Sam. In general - a very good and high-quality addition, which is not just made "to be", but really everything is soundly thought out.

Outcome
To be honest, I do not regret the time spent on the game, because those emotions, empathy and inspiration received during the passage are priceless. Not a single game made me experience such truthful and sincere emotions. I was a little sad when I finished playing the game, because I wanted to wander around different locations, collect something, improve weapons and equipment for the next fight with someone. I will say that this was the first playthrough of this great game, which I will definitely replay in the future. Glukhovsky would like to say a big thank you for the good and well-written books that he provided.

Overall, not bad. In short: excellent optimization, imperfect gameplay, boring storytelling, cool bike physics, but still endless rides and backtracking.

I want to say in advance that the motivations of the characters are doubtful, the plot is artificially drawn out and filled with garbage tasks, backtracking, etc. I tried to overcome myself already at 8-10 hours of the story, when the game takes 30-40 hours.
Purely for comparison, I’ll say that the game could use a degree of seriousness, weightiness and some heaviness, something like The Last of Us or Red Dead Redamption 2. In fact, this is more like Ubisoft projects than Rockstar or Naughty Dog.

When the dead began to walk the earth... I was small and all alone. I lived in a treehouse that my father built for me, but she and my mother picked a bad time to travel to Savannah. One day a man came into my yard and asked for help, and I gave it to him. His name was Lee. From that moment he began to protect and protect me. He protected other people as well. But it's impossible to save everyone. The living were no less dangerous than the dead.
A woman in our group, Lilly, lost her father. It was hard for her to come to terms with it. She killed the one whose life Lee had saved.
Lee showed mercy, but she abused him later and betrayed us. Again.
Lee taught me how to survive in this world and protected me for as long as he could. But he was bitten. Because of me.
I still remember what Lee taught me. Even looking into the eyes of death and meeting her in his arms, he continued to instruct and teach me.
"Stay out of the cities, honey. It's too dangerous out there." - Lee was doomed. He knew it was the end for him. And he turned to me with one last request. He asked me to shoot him. And I did it.
Then I met another group. Unfortunate and broken people who fled from their past. There was a woman in it who gave birth to a boy named Alvin Jr. Hey Jay. He survived. He survived thanks to the efforts of everyone who was with us then. But his mother is not. Something happened in the new group and Jane left AJ in the snow. We thought he was gone forever and we would never see him again. This was the last straw for Kenny. Kenny, who lost everything in this world, including the meaning of existence.
Lee was no longer with me, so I had to make a decision. But I couldn't. Kenny killed Jane.
It turned out that AJ is alive. Jane hid it to convince me that Kenny is no longer what he used to be. And even with what happened, I couldn't leave Kenny behind. I was too attached to him, he had already become a part of me. We tried to survive together.
Until something happens that always happens. Until life took him from me.
AJ and I went to the New Frontier base. I thought we had finally found a permanent home for us. But I was wrong again. They took AJ away from me saying I was too young to take care of him. I fought back. I wasn't going to put up with it and didn't agree with what they said. But I wasn't strong enough to defend myself. I spent a long time searching. And it wasn't until I gave up and lost all faith... that I found him.
Now we are looking together - a place that would become our home. I am everything AJ has, and I only have him. And I will protect him with my life. Just like Lee did for me.

The game is not optimized for modern computers. When you try to start the game, an exclusively black screen appears. Attempts to change the screen expansion parameters using the Steam startup parameters "-w 1920 -h 1080" did not lead to anything. The Steam support service can't help in any way.

Игра не оптимизирована под современные компьютеры. При попытке запуска игры появляется исключительно чёрный экран. Попытки изменить параметры расширения экрана с помощью параметров запуска Steam "-w 1920 -h 1080" ни к чему не привели. Служба поддержки Steam ни чем не может помочь.

A promising story about the limitless power of the world Wide Web. The type of game, indeed, drives into the atmosphere of disturbing decay. I still listen to all 3 versions of the mourning soundtrack "We'll meet again". The idea of the game is very interesting. I believe that someday developers will have the time and resources to create a full-fledged game with a small amount of choice leading to an offshoot of the story. So far, I see an exceptionally beautiful book for 2 chapters, which does not depend on the presence of the player. Believe in the Net.

An atmospheric plot (albeit very short, only 5 chapters), filled with very creepy creatures. The plot is devoid of a narrative, which further draws on the study of the mysterious place "The Womb". Complications during the passage were caused only by the management. The "sixth", although small, but far from nimble, very often not agile, reluctantly grabs the ledges, jumps a short distance. Considering that the game has an excellent physical model of the behavior of objects and the movements of enemies, very often clumsiness leads to a sad death.

When I was little, my mother told me that my father had died in a car accident. But all my life I felt that he was somewhere near and I hoped to get to know him.
Decades later, on a sunny summer day, when I had already given up hope of a reunion, I sat down to play CS:GO carelessly. Suddenly, I saw in the chat a cherished message addressed to me, which read: "Hey, idiot, I f*cked your mother!". After reading this message, I was over the moon with happiness, as I finally managed to find my father.

Ethnically different colonialists establish their own rules on the Japanese island, who sincerely do not understand where the bourgeois with fire sticks came from. In the main role is a strong girl Lara Sue, whom everyone loves (it isn't clear why), who is very smart (which doesn't prevent her from blunting the whole game), who is very fragile and tender (which doesn't prevent her from shouting menacingly that she will kill everyone), and who constantly groans and groans. Only white people die, especially the angry Russians, and the unfortunate Japanese who are stuck in stopped time.
The gameplay is of the same type, along the way there are a lot of extra surveyed places. I regret that I passed the game 100%. Multiplayer is simple PvP, as the game is designed for story-driven passage, although it was possible to make a joint passage.

The best sniper game in my opinion. An unexpected and exciting storyline, each mission is different from each other. Patience and precision are essential to complete the game without dying. In particular, I liked the game at a high level of difficulty, since the hit point is not shown here and you have to calculate the flight path yourself using wind and distance.
Bur the developers reacted to the weapon with neglect. All 4 rifles presented in the game differ from each other in names, appearance and reloading speed, otherwise they behave the same, despite the different caliber. There is only one pistol here and it has the same destructive power as a rifle, and this is very funny.

I've been playing L4D2 since release. The game has a very well-developed "Director" and therefore each replay is unique.
Even so, the game isn't worth the money.
The community is toxic, inadequate. You can get kicked just because you play a LITTLE better than others. Braindead Russians interfere with the game because I don't know Russian.
And it takes forever to find maps like "Swamp Fever" and "Hard Rain"! Very often the server closes the connection and all players return to the lobby. In terms of updates and events, the game is completely dead. The latest update "The Last Stand" is a complete flop. The developers don't need this game, it sells so well. It takes about 1-1.5 weeks to collect all the achievements, and then that's it, the incentive to continue playing is at zero.
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