Extinction (2018)

 PC
Metascore
51

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 18
  3. Negative: 7 out of 18
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  1. 3DJuegos
    Apr 24, 2018
    40
    Extinction is a poor action game with a too simple combat system, a deficient camera system, and a terrible and repetitive mission design.
  2. GameOver.gr
    Apr 13, 2018
    40
    It’s baffling that Iron Galaxy priced Extinction as an AAA game. Suffice to say that after we completed the first 3-4 levels we essentially saw everything the game had to offer in terms of environments and combat systems.
  3. Gamer.no
    Apr 10, 2018
    40
    Extinction might seem fun in the first few minutes, and the combat system might keep you around for a while. But what really frustrates, is the narrow scope of the game, where you do the same things over, and over, and over; killing trolls, killing trolls, and saving civilians and the city by killing trolls.
  5. GameSpot
    Apr 9, 2018
    40
    Extinction shoots itself in the foot time and time again. It's so frustrating to see its good ideas buried under repetitive missions, a forgettable story, and embarrassing production values for its AAA price.
  6. Slant Magazine
    Apr 9, 2018
    40
    Extinction never opens up the way it's clearly supposed to, instead falling into a repetition that makes the game feel every bit as stale as its story concept.
  7. Edge Magazine
    Apr 26, 2018
    30
    Extinction is mindless, soulless stuff, and a huge disappointment from a reputable studio. [June 2018, p.116]
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  8. PlayGround.ru
    Apr 13, 2018
    30
    Extinction simply requires you to kill giants over and over again. Besides that, the game offers almost nothing.
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  1. Ars Technica
    Apr 9, 2018
    It feels like a frustrating proof of concept, unworthy of its evocative title...a good idea poorly executed over and over again.
  2. The Jimquisition
    Apr 11, 2018
    An absolute horror show of a game and I cannot recommend anybody buy it or even accept it for free.

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User Score
2.2

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 33 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 33
  3. Negative: 27 out of 33
  1. umbershap
    Apr 10, 2018
    0
    This game is 4 hour long, have repetetive gamepaly and they are asking $60 for this game.
  2. skdursh
    Apr 10, 2018
    0
    Don't buy it unless you get it on a massively deep sale. Is absolutely in no way worth the AAA $60 price tag they put on it. ExtremelyDon't buy it unless you get it on a massively deep sale. Is absolutely in no way worth the AAA $60 price tag they put on it. Extremely repetitive, extremely short, extremely shallow. This game shouldn't be priced any higher than $20 and even then I'd still wait for it to go on sale for $10. Really glad I was able to refund this one. Somehow this has even less content than the atrociously disappointing release of No Man's Sky. Bad studio trying to rip people off. STAY AWAY!… Full Review »
  3. devilchao0
    Apr 10, 2018
    0
    I beat the entirety of the game within an hour and a half. The thing is a buggy mess and plays like absolute garbage, hitboxes are about 10-50I beat the entirety of the game within an hour and a half. The thing is a buggy mess and plays like absolute garbage, hitboxes are about 10-50 TIMES the size of models (you can get hit by a fist that landed about 50 feet away), the rappel mechanic barely works (aiming at a Ravenii and instead it grabs a tree half the map away or just plain doesn't work because the camera is whipping back and forth between ground level and the head of this 200 foot tall orc (there's no up/down camera control in this game) while the onscreen prompt strobes in and out), once you've played the tutorial you've literally experienced everything there is to see. After doing super attacks on pieces of armor on a Ravenii's head you will sometimes be instantly teleported to the ground, forcing you to either climb back up (climbing is a nightmare in this game, your character just plain doesn't respond to inputs sometimes) or struggle with the broken rappel mechanic.
    You can only cut their arms and legs off at ONE specific location and the process of delivering the final blow is tedious and just not fun. There's no fun in this game, just repetitive **** that looks exactly the same. Fighting the minions is mind-numbingly boring too. There are only four maps and I never paid attention to which map was which because they were boring and similar enough that not one of them stuck out as the best map and I couldn't tell you difference between them right now.
    Your character controls like someone put about 15 minutes of fooling around with the default Unity setup into it and that's all I'll say about that.
    They are charging $60-$75 for this game that I could have seen being a meh title on the Gamecube. It's not worth the time it takes to download and if you buy it you're stupid.
    I made an account here because that's how strongly I felt about warning others from spending their money on this,    … Full Review »
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