Now I have a refund I am ready to rant 
My word this game is a massive step backwards for Remedy which makes me sad they have flushed away their PC rep
Technically the game just looks very dated. Like a DX9 game overall with very murky/muddy textures in places & terrible FPS issues its not in a state to even be sold right now on PC MS will deservedly get a lot of refunds.
Even when/if they fix the PC optimisation issues the actual gameplay is also very repetitive. The gameplay is Max Payne with Time Stopping abilities....and that's about it no gameplay progression beyond tedious fire fights where your time abilities give you an advantage at all times.
MS must have paid a lot of money to squeeze this onto the XB1 meagre hardware & PR this so heavily must have been expensive to buy all those positive reviews on XB1 but the actual game is another Duke Nukem Forever scenario where its heavily hyphed but a massive let down due to no real innovation
Shame for Remedy they are only a small studio unless this sells strongly on XB1 & or MS support them financially I cannot see them funding another Alan Wake on their own. Sorry but it's their own fault for taking the MS funding as that obviously means MS dictate how & when the game is released/marketed.
What where they even thinking with this game it looks so poor like a DX9 era game from several years ago. It needed DX12 amazing graphics to help sell the story it got DX9 & poor optimisation & other technical issues which really hurt the gameplay due to the stuttering & the live action cutscenes are an expensive to produce but bland stuttering mess every few moments it says waiting for content to buffer & or the codec breaks up & reduces the resolution to sub 720P so you cannot even see what is going onscreen. The single cut-scene I viewed fully came across as exactly what it was a low budget amateur sci-fi production with an easy to follow but generic storyline.
Overall this game is just too dated design wise the only unique feature's are the live action cut-scenes & time altering gameplay both wear out their welcome fast. Its certainly not worth paying much for on PC no wonder its free with XB1 MS store purchases
My word this game is a massive step backwards for Remedy which makes me sad they have flushed away their PC rep
Technically the game just looks very dated. Like a DX9 game overall with very murky/muddy textures in places & terrible FPS issues its not in a state to even be sold right now on PC MS will deservedly get a lot of refunds.
Even when/if they fix the PC optimisation issues the actual gameplay is also very repetitive. The gameplay is Max Payne with Time Stopping abilities....and that's about it no gameplay progression beyond tedious fire fights where your time abilities give you an advantage at all times.
MS must have paid a lot of money to squeeze this onto the XB1 meagre hardware & PR this so heavily must have been expensive to buy all those positive reviews on XB1 but the actual game is another Duke Nukem Forever scenario where its heavily hyphed but a massive let down due to no real innovation
Shame for Remedy they are only a small studio unless this sells strongly on XB1 & or MS support them financially I cannot see them funding another Alan Wake on their own. Sorry but it's their own fault for taking the MS funding as that obviously means MS dictate how & when the game is released/marketed.
What where they even thinking with this game it looks so poor like a DX9 era game from several years ago. It needed DX12 amazing graphics to help sell the story it got DX9 & poor optimisation & other technical issues which really hurt the gameplay due to the stuttering & the live action cutscenes are an expensive to produce but bland stuttering mess every few moments it says waiting for content to buffer & or the codec breaks up & reduces the resolution to sub 720P so you cannot even see what is going onscreen. The single cut-scene I viewed fully came across as exactly what it was a low budget amateur sci-fi production with an easy to follow but generic storyline.
Overall this game is just too dated design wise the only unique feature's are the live action cut-scenes & time altering gameplay both wear out their welcome fast. Its certainly not worth paying much for on PC no wonder its free with XB1 MS store purchases
looks like Win 10 = XB1 emulator but running files from PC instead of streaming from a physical XB1.
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