Supporting this game may very well be supporting terrorism, war crimes, large scale long term destruction, suffering, maiming, torture, rape, murder. What is straight bad and in fact actively heinous, is the high probability of the commercial performance of this game in some way financially benefiting the Russian government or pro-Russia companies either through taxes or contracts related to the game's funding. That's what makes me think that perhaps this has a chance of ending up mediocre rather than just straight bad. The only potential positive I've seen from raw gameplay footage of this game that's not slickly edited to look cool, is that there appear to be some amount of puzzle/platform rooms that may be some manner of engaging? Like there was one room with tubes of suspended water you could swim through. "I have to drag this fucking ball around?!" or whatever it is he says as the game has the player drag a ball across a bunch of tubes. Not a good sign for the writing overall when this is what the writers think is good stuff. It's particularly bad here because the writing is just the absolute pits, making the character instantly and continuously unlikable and annoying. The player character speaking in this game is one of the worst examples of the kind of trendy trope that people have started to turn on where they just won't shut up with their attempted quips. Then I saw Gamespot's 10 minute gameplay demonstration, and the open world combat encounters just looked straight out of some trashy asset flip dumped out by some hack developer, where the player seemingly endlessly attracts a conga line of bullet sponge enemies that barely react to hits and do nothing but come at the player in a straight line. I was initially less than enthused by but hopeful for its gameplay, which had looked quite Bioshock inspired, which I've not found terribly interesting. It has looked and sounded wild and wonderful. Like most everyone else, I was excited and enthralled by its accomplished visual creativity.
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