I had a good time with Immortals of Aveum but the gameplay is extremely let down by the narrative and writing and it simply overstays its welcome.
I like the look of this game. There are a lot of flashy VFX flying around and the environments are beautiful and (though pretty generically fantasy) look impressive. Most of the enemy designs are surprisingly simple in a way that didn't really work for me though.
This is a first person shooter with the guns flavored like magic. Blue is your rifle, red is your shotgun, green is your smg. It all works really well and some color matching with enemy types makes it play a lot like Destiny. The movement is fun though not quite as kinetic as Doom 2018, I still enjoyed running around these arenas picking my targets and taking them apart.
Over the length of the game there really isn't enough introduced and I did get tired of the fights by the end. I didn't feel much compulsion to explore the open world after I had beaten the game.
This is a narrative heavy single player game and it really drops the ball here. The narrative is fairly generic though unnecessarily convoluted, with a couple of obvious twists and nonsensical motivation for most of the characters. Characters do things or refuse to do things obviously to further the plot, with no real attention paid to what that character's motivations might actually be.
Add to that writing that is like really badly done MCU dialog and this game becomes sort of a chore to get through. It isn't even that the characters are all annoying or intolerable (though some definitely are), the writing itself simply doesn't deliver, lacking the character and charm that, despite being vapid, MCU characters have.
There is a big swing at a lore heavy world here, but it is heavy handed and mostly ignorable. Characters drop 5-6 proper nouns on you per sentence, most of which are unimportant and just serve to remove your ability to understand what is even going on. Despite that, the world is pretty cool to just hang around in.
Immortals of Aveum needed to improve its focus and reign in the writing, but it is fun to play through despite that. If you want a fairly unique feeling first person shooter to blast through and you have already played both Doom games, it might be worth a shot.
I like the look of this game. There are a lot of flashy VFX flying around and the environments are beautiful and (though pretty generically fantasy) look impressive. Most of the enemy designs are surprisingly simple in a way that didn't really work for me though.
This is a first person shooter with the guns flavored like magic. Blue is your rifle, red is your shotgun, green is your smg. It all works really well and some color matching with enemy types makes it play a lot like Destiny. The movement is fun though not quite as kinetic as Doom 2018, I still enjoyed running around these arenas picking my targets and taking them apart.
Over the length of the game there really isn't enough introduced and I did get tired of the fights by the end. I didn't feel much compulsion to explore the open world after I had beaten the game.
This is a narrative heavy single player game and it really drops the ball here. The narrative is fairly generic though unnecessarily convoluted, with a couple of obvious twists and nonsensical motivation for most of the characters. Characters do things or refuse to do things obviously to further the plot, with no real attention paid to what that character's motivations might actually be.
Add to that writing that is like really badly done MCU dialog and this game becomes sort of a chore to get through. It isn't even that the characters are all annoying or intolerable (though some definitely are), the writing itself simply doesn't deliver, lacking the character and charm that, despite being vapid, MCU characters have.
There is a big swing at a lore heavy world here, but it is heavy handed and mostly ignorable. Characters drop 5-6 proper nouns on you per sentence, most of which are unimportant and just serve to remove your ability to understand what is even going on. Despite that, the world is pretty cool to just hang around in.
Immortals of Aveum needed to improve its focus and reign in the writing, but it is fun to play through despite that. If you want a fairly unique feeling first person shooter to blast through and you have already played both Doom games, it might be worth a shot.