I have to admit, I tense up a little whenever I see “Xbox One Game Preview” in the title of something I’m playing. It’s not that there aren’t some fantastic experience to be had (because there are!) but these words can also mean crippling bugs and glitches galore while exploring a fantasy landscape.
HIGH The encounters with the chamber gods.
LOW Trying to find a tunnel in one of the mid-game chambers.
WTF The whole gravity concept is one big WTF.
Welcome to This is Not a Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: Astroneer, developed and published by System Era Softworks, and available in early access on both PC and Xbox One.
HIGH The search for a passport. Just wait.
LOW Fiddling with the miserable torpedo targeting during a heated battle.
WTF The final area’s bizarre fixation on tetrahedrons.
HIGH Deciphering the last little bit of the AI language.
LOW More than two dozen crash-to-menus.
WTF I’ll just go take a dip in that hundred-degrees-below-zero water now…
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