Another Dawn

Terrible

This game needs A LOT of work. It's as if the game developer was a blind monkey who tried recreating Far Cry... While having a seizure. The idea for the game was okay, I'll give it that. However the execution, not at all. I was very surprised to see that this was an X|S optimized game, it plays like it was optimized for the original Playstation. And that it normal selling price. I get there are crap games out there being sold by what upsets me is how Microsoft could allow this game to be sold for $19.99! I mean really? Luckily I purchased it on sale for $5 which is still a high price for this game. I guess the developers wanted to create an old style survival game that is intentionally hard so you are to figure out how to survive through the game on your own. That's great and all, but I don't think it makes up for the mechanics and controls to be absolute crap. The list could go on about all the issues this game has...the controls are wonky and extremely sensitive. I had to turn down the sensitivity almost all the way down which made it slightly easier. Jumping controls and even swimming are both awful. Voice acting is crap. The movement of the AI is ridiculous, enemies will dart in all directions making it impossible to kill using melee weapons. In the final, I was certain I had 2 enemies left to kill but it was actually 1 darting from one side of the level to the other! I don't know why they even have the pipe as a weapon. You can strike an enemy dead on over and over, but no kill. The controls should be re mapped. Aiming is garbage. Often times you'll have a dead on headshot that won't kill an enemy but is actually a missed shot. I'm surprised I was able to get through the underground laboratory level bc of how glitchy it was. 90% of it felt like it was running at 5 fps. I won't "spoil" how it ends but the way it looks is that there could be a sequel. The expression normally goes "quit while you're ahead." But with the development of this game they should quit because they are too far behind.