Yes, worth buying.
At $49.99. It has been as low as $12.49.
- Story and characters: 207 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 146 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 98 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 138 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Difficulty: 24 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 10k player reviews · updated 5 days ago
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This is a great game, and it's not strictly necessary as a lot of the important story beats are re-visited throughout this game, but I do think you'll have a better appreciation for the story and the game mechanics if you play the first game before this one.
The audio in this game is arguably as important, if not at times more important than the visuals.
I personally feel like the Deck looks and runs this game a little better if you switch it to "TSR" because that one allows you to enable dynamic resolution as well as a target framerate so that the game will adjust its resolution in real time during gameplay to try and hold onto that 30fps lock.
The audio all seems high quality and they make really good use of spatial audio so that things tend to sound how you would reasonably think they would in whatever environment you happen to be in at that time.
thankful with the budget of microsoft, very polished unreal engine 5 settings that works (mostly) this is definitely one of the most optimized games utilizing ue5 that i have played, though that may be a low number of games experienced.
I played it mostly on desktop, but I have played it a bit on my Steam Deck as well and it looks and runs fine there as well.
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Currently $49.99. The lowest we've tracked is $12.49.
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