Cloudpunk Review (PlayStation 4)
A neon-noir story in a rain-drenched cyberpunk metropolis. It’s your first night on the job working for the Cloudpunk delivery service. Two rules: Don’t miss a delivery and don’t ask what’s in the package.
Pros:
- Decent voxel graphics.
- 10.02GB download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Works on Playstation 5.
- Delivery woman gameplay.
- Tutorial as you play.
- Earn cash from doing jobs.
- Gameplay-driving a Hova (flying car) around and deliver packages.
- Can get out of the hova and walk around.
- Collectibles show on the mini-map.
- 3rd person and 1st person view.
- Map and minimap.
- Play how you want.
- Icons show for everything important.
- Parking spots-only place to park and get out.
- Find new characters to interact with.
- Merchants and vendors can be found all over.
- Highways-marked by blue roads, as you hit these your hova will stay on it and makes travel easier.
- The world does have an open world feel, you can drive around anywhere.
- A beautiful sprawling world with many little suburbs and secrets to find.
- Garage–buy/install hova upgrades and repair your hova. Can customise it with visual upgrades and attachments.
- Earn cash by discovering new locations, doing jobs, etc.
- The world is both vertical and horizontal in its size.
- Really good cyberpunky soundtrack.
- Missions may have a choice element.
- Anything you can pick up is highlighted.
- Can turn the Hud off with a press of a button.
- Camera-lock/unlock and you can zoom in and out and rotate.
- Unlock new upgrades as you play the game.
- Clear easy to understand job board on your screen complete with markers.
- Has a living world feel to it.
- Apartment-buy and upgrade new items in your place including decor.
- Fuel is a thing you need to keep topped up by visiting petrol stops, the price varies.
Cons:
- A lot of screen tearing and slowdown.
- Very daunting to begin with.
- The slight learning curve with driving.
- Tutorial tips are far apart.
- Doesn’t get a huge boost when playing on the PlayStation 5.
- Driving is very sluggish and erratic.
- Hard to judge distance which is an issue with traffic.
- The constant need for parking spaces.
- Voice works feel very flat and monotone.
- The camera goes crazy if you touch it at all when exiting a vehicle.
- Graphics - 8/108/10
- Sound - 8/108/10
- Accessibility - 7/107/10
- Length - 7/107/10
- Fun Factor - 7/107/10
Summary
Cloudpunk is a game all about delivering packages to the many colorful characters of the world. It’s a very slow-paced game with a huge repetition arc as you are constantly going backward and forwards. It’s a game that is a lot of fun and a great way to pass the time as the world of cool with its voxel style graphics and the brilliant soundtrack just makes it a coherent experience. The driving is not good early on, it has a huge turning arc, it’s sluggish and the camera amplifies this with it being hard to judge distances or get past traffic slightly. I like the put of car portion of the game as you can talk with locals, find Collectibles and do some shopping but I don’t like how I have to find the sparse parking spot locations first, that in itself is a map icon jungle and then you have to navigate the world to your location and it all makes it a right pain and adds unwanted puzzle elements to it all. For me Cloudpunk is not a bad game and it’s not a great game, it’s just an alright game that had grand ideas but for whatever reason, I never felt like they were realized and it could have been a lot different. Overall Cloudpunk is a good stop-gap and a great first step into a cyberpunk world.
