I don't tend to cover games I hate but I made an exception the moment I saw what this was, much like THE FINALS, a game I covered before, this piece of shit is pushing the boundries of what should ever be deemed acceptable to be sold on storefronts and is a trendsetter for the worst things this industry has to offer, the actual worst things, not the bad things about the industry this game deems to be an issue (and it has some opinions there) that it somehow thinks its fixing with its repeating of gamergate rhetoric, actual political propaganda, NFT's and everyones favorite, ai art, it's at times like this i understand why gamers are so angry, though i'm not angry or even irate, i'm just disgusted to my core, this is the worst game i have ever played.

a lot of what disgusts me about this isn't necessarily just in the gameplay, though the game is actually awful to play, it bases so much of itself on this "extraction mode" thats just a shell to shove the NFT's in the game, though "extraction shooter BR" is a title so buzzwordy i'm sure it sounded great to the investors and probably got the game paid for there and then. it's a BR mode with NFT's you need to hunt down in the first 5 mins, which become a bad TDM domination mode with unlimited respawns, which takes all tension out if you aren't looking for the NFT's and kind of breaks all flow and you need to extract them at an extraction point to get your NFT, then after a while respawns turn off and it becomes a real BR with actual stakes, well, it's supposed to, you can just go in with broken loadouts (which will have NFT's when the game launches in full, our amazing pay to win future!) which make enough of a difference that it's downright impossible for a fresh character to kill one, it's gross and bad and the game pays like garbage. it's other big thing is the limb system, think deus ex augments..... but bad, they're randomly found but again you can NFT your way to victory here too and while they're cool in principle, none of them feel good to use, they give the game more depth sure and some are cool like the super sprint or some of the projectiles but the game is so fundamentally unfun, ugly and broken that it's a bandaid on an untreatable injury, the jetpack and flying is fun though, credit to them there. the map is pretty bad though, it has some distinct areas that look almost fine like the pool area and i did see, of all things, a spar parody which is a local shop chain where i live and i was really taken aback seeing it, but the map is so ugly and boring and so much of it is so nondistinct and bland, there's nothing worth exploring here and almost nothing that stands out, which is super bad for a game with advanced movement where you would want landmarks to help you find your way around, its just so nothing which is how the game looks aesthetically in general, i'd call it utilitarian but that'd be too generious, the people making the game just have no eye for and no care for aesthetics and are clearly targeting this to the kind of person who considers good art and design a hinderance to the experience. in the sole final bright spot there are some kind of cool live action cutscenes here which apparently have some big Hollywood director attached, i forgot his name and i do not care to google it, he did district 9, they're not enough to save this especially since they're just as tonally gross as the rest of the game, though at least when them it feels intentional. the music is also absolute nothing, i don't even remember if it had it, honestly, and considering the AI voice acting it would not shock me if they threw stock AI music in there too.

the tone is just irreparably fucked, when i played there was an election event where you could get costumes and emotes based on the election candidates if you paid for their sub service, because of course this game has a sub service on top of its NFTs and other MTX , like the costumes and other cosmetics (and its cheapening of assets by using ai art and voice acting) it just had to gouge you at every opportunity and in the most mentally predatory way possible, it seems especially gross with how its framed, BUY OUR SUB SERVICE AND FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY, its like they're capitalising on terminally online radicalisation, it's gross, i'm probably not far off frankly, the game is full of dogwhistles to that kind of crowd, the trump skin is bad enough but it has a poor impersonator spouting dogwhistles about "attractive women in games being taken out" by hero shooters and how they should fight for it, which, boy are you one to fucking talk, jesus christ this is the fugliest game I've ever seen, this game wishes it had the artistry of even concord, at least that game had *art direction*, like look at those screenshots it all speaks for itself just how awful this game looks. throw in obligatory gamergate whistles, anti DEI shit and "woke mindvirus" and a wall emote that references eating pets, it's very obvious who this game *wants* you to pick, the game feels loving towards trump where the kamala skin feels much more mocking in comparison, the game comes across as downright propagandistic on top of the general ugliness of its vibe and the boys club bullshit it has going on with things like that "attractive woman" gamergate 2 shit, this game can rot and die. the games narrator is a macho dickbag insulting you, typical military shit, it's boring and a lot of his lines don't even fully make sense, they feel written by machine, which considering the games overuse of AI art in loading screens and ingame maps and possibly even the promo art (check that ninja character i used in the picmix, I'm not convined they didn't use ai), plus the VERY noticeable ai voicelines (though i don't think he's voiced by AI, but the female narrator 100% is and some of the other characters seem to be), maybe he *is* written by GPT, it'd fit the games M.O to a tee. this game is fundimentally against everything both i and this website stand against, ai has no place in any artistic medium and video games are no exception, NFT's have no place in any artistic medium and neither does this games wannabe gamergater bullshit attitude, this industry is better than this, no matter how much twitter and reddit losers want to drag us there.

i knew going into this that i would hate the game, it's kind of why i went into it, the game was a perfect example of everything wrong with this industry, bland gamery aesthetics, buzzword genre mixes, NFT bullshit, crypto garbage, ai slop, rampant misogyny and gamergate bullshit (the game even got noted piece of shit and actual sex criminal DR disrespect to promote it, which tells you everything you need to know about the people making it). if nothing else this game is a perfect example of everything we should be fighting against and pushing back, it's a cautionary tale of the direction we don't want this artform going in , a direction corps and grifters want us to go in. this game is not art, it's anti-art and it spits on everything an artistic medium stands for but it has its use, it serves as a way we can educate ourselves on just how bad things can get if we don't push back and a picture of how bleak a future where this kind of thing is the norm will really be.