Let's be realistic here people: 3079 is a FPS that uses the Minecraft "engine". Now I understand one must like Minecraft and everything itLet's be realistic here people: 3079 is a FPS that uses the Minecraft "engine". Now I understand one must like Minecraft and everything it stands for, but in the end 3079 is a game that tries to be something it isn't.
The idea of the game is great: An FPS in a randomly designed open world with random enemies who drop guns/swords with random stats that is supposed to challenge you constantly. A bit like what we want Fallout 4 to be...
Sounds great right? Too bad the game has this very cheap feel to it, and gets boring really, REALLY fast. About 3 hours in I started thinking "what's the point", because you are literally just doing the same thing over and over: walking a lot, levitating a bit, shooting a lot, grabbing the same weapons over and over with slightly different stats and finding a vendor to sell them too so you can buy the same items with slightly better stats over and over. That's really all there is to the game, so if you really have no life and are very, very bored, you might play this for months to come. For the rest of us, it's a fun few hours at most.
One can of course not compare a game like this to "true" FPS games like COD, Battlefield, Killzone, Fallout 3 (NV), Arma, etc, but still... Those games take at least some skill when it comes to the shooting part, meaning you have to really aim at what you want to hit. Not in 3079 though, since weapons have an accuracy stat that makes you fire all over the place. Here, you just point in the direction of an enemy (a set of blocks...) and just hail Mary the damn thing. Luckily, enemies are very dumb, and will attack anything that attacks them, or comes close enough, moving in a straight line.
While the game sounds like a loot-fest, it's only partially so. Items are always the same (5 types of gun, radar, battery, medpack, etc.), and just have a few different stats (but nothing major, so you never go "WOW"), and gradually go up in level. All in all you just collect and sell, which is not as much fun in this game.
Another beef I have is with the graphics. True, graphics don't make a game, but a FPS is the one type of game where graphics matter. If I'm going to snipe somebody, I want to hit him in the head, not in the block that sits upon another block. While graphics works for the world, they don't work for the enemies. It just seems silly shooting at these cartoon characters.
Sound... There is sound, lets keep it at that. The music however is horrible, and doesn't fit this type of game at all. Go mute, you'll have more fun.
It's a game that is worth the 5 or 6 bucks you spend on it. But that's all. Don't expect anything really good or special. Unless you are one of "those" guys, who hate big studio's and games and pretend to love everything indie.
Personally, I enjoyed the game in the beginning, but it goes from hard, to easy, to pointless too fast. I give it a 6 for the first 3 hours, and after that it just slides into a 3. 4/10… Expand
