Review: GreedFall (Steam)
Engage in a core roleplaying experience, and forge the destiny of a new world seeping with magic, and filled with riches, lost secrets, and fantastic creatures. With diplomacy, deception and force, become part of a living, the evolving world – influence its course and shape your story.
Pros:
- Really decent graphics.
- 20359mb download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Steam trading cards.
- Controller support.
- Tutorials-on/off but you do an opening fight anyway.
- Invert Y-axis and sensitivity slider.
- Graphics-resolution, v-sync, presets, shadows, draw distance, SSAO, cloth physic, particles, FOV slider, dynamic resolution, anisotropy and texture quality.
- Four difficulties-easy/normal/hard/extreme.
- RPG action gameplay.
- Strong voice work and loads of from NPC to people in the street.
- Branching character interactions.
- Character creator-Gender/presets/face/hair/facial hair/eyebrows/skin colour/hair color/facial hair colour and eye color.
- 3 classes-Warrior, Technical, and Magic. You start with 1 skill point and an attribute point. Choosing a class is really about starting stats and items as you can tailor the stats later.
- Fast-paced combat-lock on, carry 2 weapons and swap instantly, a gun side arm, dodge, and parry. Rage type move that charges as you fight.
- Can find loot boxes, treasure chests and loot bodies.
- Collectibles everywhere.
- Lock pick-a skill you increase and has levels of skill.
- Zones-controlled by enemy factions. You can stealth around or go in Disguise.
- The optional and plentiful array of side quests.
- Easy to use UI and mission and loot management is easy as well as your team member.
- Team-recruit and pick 2 comrades to go out and about with you.
- Open world.
- Compass-shows markers including a description and how far away it is.
- Clear icons on the screen for missions and interactions.
- Save when you want from the menu.
- So much loot!
- Crafting where you can make items and gear but also upgrade.
- Shops to buy and sell goods.
- Every faction of people has a reputation with you and your actions change it.
- Full character progression choice-you can re distribute skill and attributes and choose what you want.
- Play how you want.
- Some very interesting stories.
- As you level up you acquire skills that can make traversal easier like breaking down walls or jumping gaps etc.
- Big boss fights.
- Decent story.
- Every story mission and some side quests have multiple ways of completing them and different outcomes.
- Fantastic world that feels like a living breathing world.
- Some jaw-dropping locations and vistas.
- When traveling to New locations via the map you wait for the level to load in a random camp where you can do buying/selling and upgrading.
- Ai team members help in combat and are quick and simple to manage.
- Stealth mechanic complete with bars above enemies heads to help.
- Find shortcuts.
- Multiple endings.
- Can lose track of time easily.
Cons:
- Can’t rebind buttons or keys.
- No benchmark test.
- Can’t change your characters name regardless of gender.
- Small text pop-ups.
- Ai messes up a lot, especially with pathfinding.
- A weird robot like mouth animations.
- Rushed cutscenes that seem abrupt.
- Sometimes your choices don’t feel like they matter.
- Overwhelming amount of quests and loot.
- Camera/movements feel sensitive.
- Stealth is not as easy or satisfying as you would think.
- Very easy to miss things from missions to interactions to particular parts of a mission.
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Summary
GreedFall is fantastic fun… For one playthrough but GreedFall is definitely a game that starts off really really strong but falters and scrimps on things the more you go on. Combat is very cookie-cutter but still fun as it adds a splash of magic. The world created in GreedFall is definitely one of the better ones, it feels like a living world and I loved finding shortcuts or unlocking a skill to do new things like jumping gaps. The random encounters feel natural if a bit safe, stealth is definitely not it’s the strongest point with the camera nd general movement being a huge downer. The story is fine, like the game as a whole it starts strong but then wraps up very quickly and abruptly. Crafting is not that big a deal as you can find vendors to do it, but it’s there. The selling point of GreedFall is definitely the character-building as you have full control to change and mold your character, the world is a strong second as you can play how and where you want. Might be difficult fight wise but it’s still an option. Overall I liked GreedFall a lot but the volume of quests and loot had me looking at menus and managing gear more than playing it and when I did play it I saw more and more cracks appear. It’s worth a look for sure and I hope we get a sequel with more resources pumped into it.