41 Hours Prologue Review (Steam)

41 Hours Prologue Review

41 Hours is a first-person shooter dramatic game that follows the narrative of Ethan, a workaholic scientist in search of his long-lost wife. This is a one-hour prologue of the incredible, action-packed journey.

Pros:

  • Nice graphics.
  • 16.18GB Download size.
  • One Steam achievement.
  • Graphics-fullscreen, resolution, resolution scale slider, frame rate cap, v-sync, graphics preset, texture/shadow/visual effects quality, anti aliasing, foliage quality, view distance, and post-processing settings.
  • Four difficulties-novice, beginner, intermediate, and pro.
  • FPS gameplay.
  • Save when you want.
  • Comic book style cutscenes.
  • Full voicework.
  • Earn EXP, level up, and spend points on upgrading stats or unlock attachments like sights and suppressors.
  • Enemies can drop ammo and health.
  • Wormholes can be created to help navigate.
  • Slight puzzle elements.
  • Energy-you can collect more from energy drops, you use energy to do abilities like telekinesis, slow down time, and cloaking.
  • Takes inspiration from games like Crysis.
  • Special vision to see enemy locations.
  • Explosive barrels to shoot or throw.
  • Sights-once unlocked you get them all and can swap them out instantly with button presses.
  • Different ammo types and you can swap between them at will.
  • Shoot and kill animals for health.

41 Hours Prologue Review

Cons:

  • No benchmark test.
  • Sporadic controller support.
  • Not the fastest loading times.
  • Enemies will just spawn out of the air randomly.
  • Wave-based combat can happen with no warning.
  • Hard to tell where you are getting shot from.
  • Houses all feel the same inside.
  • The houses are very cluttered.
  • Can get stuck on the scenery a lot.
  • Very basic gunplay.
  • Sound effects go a bit weird and loud randomly.

41 Hours Prologue Review

  • 7/10
    Graphics - 7/10
  • 6/10
    Sound - 6/10
  • 6/10
    Accessibility - 6/10
  • 7/10
    Length - 7/10
  • 6/10
    Fun Factor - 6/10
6.4/10

Summary

41 Hours is a fist person shooter with special powers like telekinesis, cloaking, and slow downtime. It clearly takes a lot from games like Crysis and boasts a somewhat open world where you can roam as you like, houses can be searched for loot like ammo and health. One major thing is you can create a wormhole to help navigate and take on some of the basic puzzle situations. You are joined by an Ai partner who can be commanded to blow up enemies etc. The whole game is just OK, you can see glimpses of it being a good shooter but then you get stuck on the scenery for the billionth time or you need to tweak a setting so you have to quit out and change it or the enemies don’t spawn and you can’t continue. As this is a free Prologue I hope it gets a bit more polish put in as it could be really good but atm it’s lacking and buggy.

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!