CONSORTIUM

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User Score
7.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 59 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 59
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 59
  3. Negative: 11 out of 59

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  1. Toxin27
    Jan 10, 2014
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's been a long time since I felt fully trolled by a game. Lets ignore the game breaking bugs and the fact that most people seem incapable of finishing the game. Lets ignore the peculiar graphics choices since they're functional and graphics arent important as long as they perform all the tasks you need them to in the game.

    Here be spoilers.

    This entire 'game' is the intro sequence to a game they havent made yet! You're told bishops are essentially a warrior class, you're given a powerful suit of armour, several weapons and several pieces of equipment that you plug into your armour for various effects...and there is no combat in the game. The combat takes place in a virtual reality suite, there is one opportunity for actual physical combat in the game and it only happens if you screw everything up. Also, the special equipment you get for plugging into your suit that gives you different abilities? that is only given to you AS THE GAME ENDS! Meaning they put work into coding items you are physically incapable of using in the game at any point. They constantly talk about the combat system, the equipment system, your role as a warrior in this alternate society...and before you actually engage in any combat the game ends. This game would have been perfectly fine as an interactive story game. If they had included none of the taunting allusions to combat, none of the equipment and several guns you will never use in any situation (they're even locked down during the game with the safety on, I never even fired them) and focused on the one thing the game delivers, a good narrative and great voice acting, it would have been a good game. But constantly promising that this is a first person shooter with role playing aspects when it is in fact a socialization simulator is misleading and a direct attempt to lull in a different audience.

    In short it's 2014 and having a dialogue tree in a game is not a selling point, we've had those functioning at this level since the 90s. You cant sell a game entirely on the point it has a dialogue tree in it, so they clumsily tacked on some pretend first person shooter aspects to use guns to sell it. The entire 'game' is a sham. It's an interactive movie, which would be fine if they marketed it that way. Including features it isnt possible to use anywhere in the 'game' whilst constantly leading you to believe the game is a first person shooter in the advertising and in the game itself is dishonest and frankly insulting. I'll be asking for a refund.    … Expand
  2. Khanecz
    Jan 14, 2014
    4
    I really wanted to like this game. The dialogue and choices you make are really fun. I enjoyed getting around the ship and meeting the crew members, every one of which has an unique personality.

    But the game is riddled with bugs. Sometimes there are characters talking over each other and you don't know who to focus on. The combat is really not great and most of it will be done in a    I really wanted to like this game. The dialogue and choices you make are really fun. I enjoyed getting around the ship and meeting the crew members, every one of which has an unique personality.

    But the game is riddled with bugs. Sometimes there are characters talking over each other and you don't know who to focus on. The combat is really not great and most of it will be done in a virtual reality simulator. The game tends to lock you out or in certain areas you need access to, if you want to continue the game. And the game's crown jewel bug is when the game doesn't let you play further. I don't know if this happens to others, but this is a blocker, and it needs to be fixed.

    I give the game 4 points, for the enjoyment i had out of the dialogues and the idea, but the game is not finished and currently broken. Don't buy until they fix it.    … Expand
  3. FranklinSteele
    Jan 10, 2014
    0
    This is unreal. Who releases a game that doesn't even work? If I could give a negative score, I would. They've written an open letter explaining that the game won't even be playable until the end of January... just hang onto your 20 bucks until the fix this unplayable, unstartable joke of a game.
  4. PrincessRose
    Feb 1, 2016
    4
    A sci fi RPG. Thought the game sounded interesting, but it's not, this game is boring as it's just wandering around a ship talking to everyone and hardly knowing what you're doing. A game with a tiny bit of action and a lot of endless talking. It would be wrong to class it as a fps as there is hardly any shooting.

    The graphics are basic looking and sometimes a bit buggy and weird as NPC    A sci fi RPG. Thought the game sounded interesting, but it's not, this game is boring as it's just wandering around a ship talking to everyone and hardly knowing what you're doing. A game with a tiny bit of action and a lot of endless talking. It would be wrong to class it as a fps as there is hardly any shooting.

    The graphics are basic looking and sometimes a bit buggy and weird as NPC eyes seem to look in weird direction or clip and there doesn't seem to be much gameplay unless you are prepared to continually reload saves to see the different paths you can take. And relaoding is very slow.

    The game is also buggy, I went back in the cabin and am now stuck in there, can't get out. The door was open but acted like an invisible barrier, no matter how many times I opened and closed the door. Had to reload a previous save.

    Also characters speech timing is terrible making it hard hard to hear what anyone is saying as you'll be talking to one character and then some other character will come speak at the same time and over each other, I had the knight, Wade and rook 25 all speaking at the same time, making it a garbled mess.

    The game is confusing at times. I don't know where Iam going or where something is. And not sure what to do sometimes with mission objectives.
    I ended up confronted with a traitor and not being able to harm the person in anyway and just die.

    The game is also very short, only taking 3 to 4 hours.(thank god)

    The game is medicore and boring as well as buggy.    … Expand
  5. Tilt1k
    Nov 14, 2019
    4
    The technical state of look of the game is too bad for me to really enjoy, also if you are not a bad sci-fi fan, you wont enjoy it.

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66

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 14
  3. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Apr 7, 2014
    80
    This dialogue based RPG has fallen into the trap of its own ambition. One can only hope that the potential next installment might be able to avoid it. [Issue #239]
  2. Riot Pixels
    Mar 23, 2014
    35
    An overly ambitious, tedious, shockingly short game.
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  3. Games.cz
    Feb 17, 2014
    60
    In a horrendous package, Consortium hurts your feelings, and dresses you in a futuristic uniform, in which you'll feel the impact of your decisions, so you'll get to know slightly different stories. In any case, prepare for many uncomfortable compromises.
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