![]() ![]() Scenes take quite a long time to load – so long, in fact, that when I first started playing I thought it had crashed. The minimum graphics requirement is a GTX550Ti which just happens to be exactly what I have (along with i7 + SSD). If you want to stop at a certain point in the game and save it for later while you start another new game, you can’t do that. There are no manual save slots in this game, it’s all auto-save and you can play only one game at a time. Waste of time if you ask me (or push me, or cajole me…)Ĭontroller layout is good and the on-screen button prompts make everything very easy and intuitive, but the right-pad is a little clumsy for targeting interaction points and I often found myself reaching for the mouse. Sometimes during a conversation you have to select between 2 or 3 different responses but they have zero effect on the storyline, apart from eliciting different reactions from the other character, resulting in the same outcome. The voice acting is pretty good though, they at least sound like proper conversations instead of stuff being read off a sheet, which some games are guilty of. The dubbing is worse than a 1970s kung fu movie, with mouths flapping independently of what’s being said. A lot of time is spent passively watching the story unfold and/or the next task explained via these cutscenes, which are totally devoid of any kind of humour. You can buy the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One Standard Edition, as well as the PC Deluxe Edition, via Amazon.It’s a series of long cutscenes/dialogs strung together by tasks and puzzles of the type you’ll be familiar with from any decent point ‘n’ click game. PC version tested (review code provided by the publisher). Puzzles are the only saving grace of a game that definitely required more time in the oven. With bad writing, immersion killing issues such as bad English voice acting, unresponsive controls and general lack of polish, there's almost no reason for adventure games fans to pick up Syberia 3. There are a few locations later in the game that do look good, but how many players are going to see them with all the frustrating elements getting in the way of enjoyment? Performance in the PC version is also pretty uneven, highlighting again the game's lack of polish.Īt the end of the day, playing Syberia 3 is an exercise in patience that's hardly worth the effort. The 3D graphics look incredibly outdated, with bland character models and bad animations. Syberia 3's presentation is just as mediocre as many of the game's other features. Related Story Alessio Palumbo Former Skyrim Mod The Forgotten City Launches This Summer on PC & Consoles Going from one location to another also takes way too much time, adding even more frustration to the experience.Įven with all these issues, there's still some fun to be had in Syberia 3, thanks to the puzzles, which are quite creative and require players not only to use the correct items but also take advantage of some interesting physics mechanics. Sadly, the clunky controls and some weird design choices, such as some key elements not being accessible depending on the location the puzzle is accessed from, do get in the way, highlighting once again how the move to 3D wasn't the best choice. Making matters worse are the constant camera shifts, which don't help players in the annoying endeavor of moving Kate around locations, and the glacial moving speed. Sadly, the controls feel like the worse possible implementation of the classic Resident Evil style controls, as Kate easily gets stuck between other characters and objects, making completing even the most simple actions frustrating. Doing away with the classic point and click controls, players control Kate Walker directly, moving her towards hotspots which include clues, items and the puzzles themselves. The unpolished animations are only the tip of the iceberg, as Syberia 3 is generally a very unpolished game. With English voice acting being mediocre as well, it's easy to see how difficult it is to enjoy the story: it's almost as if the game is doing its very best to not be enjoyable. ![]() Many times throughout the adventure, players will also have to deal with cut-off dialogue, incorrect information and a lot of issues that utterly crush immersion, such as horrible lip-syncing and animations. On paper, Syberia 3 story could have been as good as the stories of the previous two entries in the series, even though the theme of prejudice against different people and cultures has already been done before, but the execution is quite bad due to horrible writing, with sentences sometimes not even making sense in English, and bad characterization, with many characters falling into clichèd stereotypes with little to no development.
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