• It has an engaging story/narrative, this was probably my strongest incentive to play through the campaign.
• Good graphics, even on medium settings.
• The game is very well polished. I never encountered any glitches, frame drops, or crashes.
• There are plenty of likeable characters with good voice actors.
• The core gameplay is pretty solid. It's especially fun when you get to use some of the interesting mid/late game weapons.

• The game is unnecessarily restrictive, in my opinion. Before you start each mission, there's a briefing/loadout screen, only you don't get to choose your weapons. Or your Gravcycle. Or which of your squad-mates go with you (although, this last one could be justified for plot/narrative reasons). It's all pre-selected for you depending on the mission, leaving you with almost no agency in this regard.
• The world looks vast, open, and begging to be explored despite there being invisible walls EVERYWHERE. If you veer even somewhat off the path the game intended, looking for easter eggs or secret loot stashes perhaps, you will be met by nothing but the world boundary and disappointment.
• Despite being part RTS, it offers very little in terms of strategy. When you issue a command to your squad, you can only issue it to all of them at once, meaning your squad can't do more than one thing at a time despite being, well, a squad. On top of that, there are only 4 commands you can issue: Move, Attack, Interact (with objects in the world), and Use Ability (albeit, this command can be issued to individual squad members). And they can't execute two commands simultaneously, meaning if you tell your squad to move to a certain position and then attack, they will move to the position and then immediately abandon it to charge in and attack directly.

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