Der Anti-Terminator

The Good:

• The graphics are beautifully done.
• The audio is great. That main menu music? Awesome!
• The shooting mechanics feel meaty & are enjoyable.

The Bad:

• The world is empty. It has nothing going for it. You see the same handful of similar styled houses & enter the same maze-like bunkers. It's a very monotonous world. It's also lazily crafted. Take the time to explore & you'll find floating objects or weapons & bodies that are under the terrain.
• The story is borderline non-existent. It's fragmented. It's comprised of quest notes, audio logs, collectables & other lazy means. It's Generation Zero story.
• The missions are your basic, lazy fetch quests. Go to point A, kill a few robots, go to point B, find & interact with , gain XP, repeat. No rewards, no sense of accomplishment. Half of the time you aren't even aware that you've completed a mission.
• The machines you fight are boring. You fight the same handful of machines with slight variations. They all have the same attacks & they're all as dumb as a bag of rocks. The largest machines, Tanks & Harvesters, are barely a challenge. They will usually stand on the spot, moving a leg back & fourth like they're bugged. Sometimes they'll randomly become aggressive in short bursts, then go back to being a bullet sponge. Try to get up close & they release gas or a concussion shockwave. Stay at range & they'll aim-bot you with a barrage of rockets. The only difficulty comes from their attacks taking nearly all of your health, so you're constantly using med-kits. It's an artificial difficulty that is tediously dull. The Runners are basically methamphetamine on legs. They sprint & bounce around with with no direction until they decide to stop & shoot. Such fun.
• The inventory system is, hands down, the worst in any game that I've played. The developers DO NOT know how to design an inventory that isn't cumbersome & completely inefficient to use. Their recent implementation of inventory sorting was a pathetic attempt at making it seem like they listen to the community.
• The storage system is pathetic. You have weight limit that restricts the amount of things you can store, so you're forced to just scrap a lot of resources you find, or dump it. It's unnecessary & adds nothing. In a recent update, they allowed players to increase the capacity of the storage container & recycling bench. While a nice addition, I feel this wasn't due to the developers listening to feedback. Players have been asking for this for years & suddenly they decide to add it. Okay.
• The skill system is as basic as they come. It's been given no love or care. You can't even respec your skill points. But fear not, it's on the roadmap! Maybe we'll see it in 2025.
• The in-game map is basic. Mission markers always seems to be bugged & most of the time they don't even show on the map.
• The game desperately needs some form of vehicles other than bikes. They're a meme. They're basically useless. Why they even added them is a mystery.
• They love milking the game with DLC. Want new weapons? Pay for them! Now, that would be okay, if it wasn't for the fact that the game is in desperate need of bug fixing & Quality of Life improvements. But it seems the developers would rather release paid DLC, because there's no need to do anything more to the game than the bare minimum, right? For example, they recently released a paid Base Support Pack DLC while base building is bugged & unusable. Priorities! The two most recent DLCs, Base Defense Pack & Base Support Pack, should not even be paid DLC. They're basic items & features that should've been included with the Base Defense update. It's scummy.
• The game crashes constantly. It's been crashing for years. My friend & I will usually experience one or two crashes a session.

The Game Feels Empty

Stats Are God Awful

Too Much Of Anything Is Bad...

Redundant

Conclusion

Generation Zero Review