Generation Zero

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5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 148 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 57 out of 148
  2. Mixed: 40 out of 148
  3. Negative: 51 out of 148
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  1. BOWi
    Apr 13, 2022
    0
    Sadly, this 3 years old game is in an "Early Access" state, even thought it is sold as a traditional game. It's a really interesting, addictive and entertaining game, but it's plagued with weird design choices; mostly about the User Interface and the core gameplay mechanics' User Experience (UX). Reviewing such game is difficult because you can't do it without talking about previousSadly, this 3 years old game is in an "Early Access" state, even thought it is sold as a traditional game. It's a really interesting, addictive and entertaining game, but it's plagued with weird design choices; mostly about the User Interface and the core gameplay mechanics' User Experience (UX). Reviewing such game is difficult because you can't do it without talking about previous versions of the game. Oh! And I forgot to talk about the bugs; they are annoying!

    I'll go back and change my rating once the game is done.

    ***More useful info***
    Yes, the world is big and a bit empty, but I think that's the point: it's a sandbox game.

    Also, the graphics and the sound design are awesome, even with my GTX 970. I don't know what people are talking about. Maybe they just need to disable "dynamic resolution".    … Expand
  2. AlanGord
    Mar 12, 2022
    0
    Devs should fix their game instead of joining political flashmob. Closing purchases of your products for people of Belarus and Russia is antidemocratic and should be punished.
  3. CoreGamer1408
    Mar 9, 2022
    4
    Graphics look out of the arc and it doesn't run well for what it is rendering. I got bored early on shooting dog bot after dog bot. Survival and stealth mechanics formulaic. Visually, narratively, gameplay wise nothing stands out. I'ts all kind of meh.
  4. FlameHaze10
    Mar 7, 2023
    3
    Pros
    - Gameplay
    - Graphics/Artstyle
    - Concept

    Cons:
    - Bullet sponge
    - AI
    - Loot
    - Repetitive

    Verdict:
    It has potential to be a great game, but with all the tedious mechanics and bullet sponge enemies with crap loot, making the game exhausting and boring for a time. My friends can't keep on playing this game.
  5. Desmondmiles76
    Nov 29, 2019
    3
    Despite the beautiful setting, the awesome graphics, and the fantastic concept, generation zero fails completely in gameplay. This game is frustrating, unbalanced, unplayable, sometimes in some parts of the game you'll die tons of times for the lack of bullets,or cause the enemies are very tough. Generation zero is the perfect example how to destroy a very good game with an awfulDespite the beautiful setting, the awesome graphics, and the fantastic concept, generation zero fails completely in gameplay. This game is frustrating, unbalanced, unplayable, sometimes in some parts of the game you'll die tons of times for the lack of bullets,or cause the enemies are very tough. Generation zero is the perfect example how to destroy a very good game with an awful gameplay.gameplay… Expand
  6. indieinsights
    Mar 26, 2019
    2
    Nice graphics, but the gameplay... As if the developers did not test their open world game. Repetitive, broken AI, boring combat against bots, and most importantly: No rewarding gameplay. You literally get tons of equipment and items very early. Random house, random loot, random quest, random enemy. It is worth $5 perhaps, unfortunately.
  7. Gn2056
    Mar 28, 2019
    1
    Let me start with the good.

    Now the Bad. There's no game, I'm not being dramatic there's nothing here guys. It's not more fun with friends, why? Because the word more insinuates that there is any fun in the first place. They ported over assets from their hunting game, used the AI from the hunting game on six robots. And done. That's it. Embarrassing. No cut scenes, quests, story    Let me start with the good.

    Now the Bad. There's no game, I'm not being dramatic there's nothing here guys. It's not more fun with friends, why? Because the word more insinuates that there is any fun in the first place. They ported over assets from their hunting game, used the AI from the hunting game on six robots. And done. That's it. Embarrassing. No cut scenes, quests, story NOTHING. ZILCH. But Fallout 76 over this seriously.    … Expand
  8. Tomle1202
    Apr 9, 2019
    4
    With Generation Zero, Avalanche tried to build an enormous playground (as they always do) but the twist? There is nothing in that playground worth playing.
  9. Elizar
    Mar 27, 2019
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gameplay is dead.
    Empty world.
    No quests, like real quests.
    "Go to the military base ".
    THats the quest.
    Or - check that place . Thats quest.
    Go there,, kill some dumb robots, get more ammo, proceed. Unbeliveable. DONT BUY THIS - ITS STILl ALPHA.    … Expand
  10. JINROH
    Apr 30, 2020
    0
    this bug game is dead, it's ugly even in 4k , You simply shoot stuff until they die
  11. Frick21
    Oct 31, 2021
    0
    An empty world without any NPC’s to interact with. Quests that are without rewards or even has any point. The only way to understand the story is to listen to recordings (made by sub par voice actors) or read notes while you rummage through houses that are copy and paste versions of a very limited amount of buildings. Underpowered weapons, few bullets and tons of robots to kill you overAn empty world without any NPC’s to interact with. Quests that are without rewards or even has any point. The only way to understand the story is to listen to recordings (made by sub par voice actors) or read notes while you rummage through houses that are copy and paste versions of a very limited amount of buildings. Underpowered weapons, few bullets and tons of robots to kill you over and over… Better play Horizon Zero Dawn instead.… Expand
  12. DirtyAssNeegger
    Jan 7, 2022
    0
    Garbage. Pure Garbage. The worst game i ever played. It is impossible to play that sh!t.
  13. Mogwai76
    Mar 27, 2019
    0
    Empty, repetitive, and cumbersome. Full of bugs. It's clear that there is no real design behind it. Some systems are well crafted, which can be expected by an experienced development team such as Avalanche (the AI is pretty damn good), but it feels like they had their most junior designers on the game, who looked at individual parts but not the gamer overall - there is no clear vision ofEmpty, repetitive, and cumbersome. Full of bugs. It's clear that there is no real design behind it. Some systems are well crafted, which can be expected by an experienced development team such as Avalanche (the AI is pretty damn good), but it feels like they had their most junior designers on the game, who looked at individual parts but not the gamer overall - there is no clear vision of what the game is meant to be and it shows. It has no soul.

    Shame really as the setting/idea is promising. It's as if that was all it ever was "lets make a game in sweden in the 80s with robots" - and it never developed on from that, nobody ever thought about what the overall game experience ought to be.    … Expand
  14. PaulGR
    Mar 27, 2019
    0
    A big BIG letdown.

    No Survival Element: To get it out of the way, there is no survival mechanic in the game. No food, no thirst, no sleep. There's no building or crafting! You simply shoot shoot shoot stuff until they die. I knew this from the start but was hoping that the rest of the gameplay would make up for it (it didn't). It essentially is a first person shooter, period. You shoot    A big BIG letdown.

    No Survival Element: To get it out of the way, there is no survival mechanic in the game. No food, no thirst, no sleep. There's no building or crafting! You simply shoot shoot shoot stuff until they die. I knew this from the start but was hoping that the rest of the gameplay would make up for it (it didn't). It essentially is a first person shooter, period. You shoot stuff, stuff shoots at you, you die, you respawn.

    The Environment is a Copy-Paste: Do people in Sweden ALL HAVE the exact same house interiors? Do they all buy the same bathrooms from IKEA? Every freakin' house I've been into is exactly a copy pasted version of the previous one I visited. Some don't even have an extra misplaced chair or table at the living room - they ARE EXACTLY the same INTERIORS. This makes it extremely boring to scavenge houses since every time is the same drill. As you enter, kitchen is exactly on the left including a main table with chairs and a few counters around; on the right is a living room. Straight ahead is a set of stairs leading to a small bathroom on the right and a small bedroom straight ahead. Sometimes there's an extra bedroom on the left. It really becomes boring very fast.

    The Story: I only played for 2-hours (for the refund obviously) and so far all you get is: Reach house > reach the shelter you read about > a new note says some people went to a farm, go there > everyone moved to a new town, move there > a group of people headed that way, track them... you get the idea. Nothing exciting or of value to experience.

    What also doesn't make sense at all and breaks immersion is the fact that somehow you just return to Sweden after being "secluded in the archipelago with a boat" and find everyone missing. There is working electricity and phones, yet you can't contact anyone. In all this time I've played, I have visited a few small towns and several houses and have only found 1 human dead body. Like, where is everybody? These killer machines are supposed to be killing people on site, yet there is no single drop of blood anywhere, or any sort of indication that a fight happened and everyone is gone. Was there an alien invasion that took everyone away? Rapture? What the hell?

    Sad Character Creation: Character creation is very poor for a game that emphasized on how you can make your character as you want. You get the male and female choices, and 6 or 7 preset models. You can't change anything on them. There are a few cool clothing options but that's about it. Many of them look really bad as well, that is, your hairstyle depends on the cap you are wearing. For example, if you wear a backwards baseball cap, you get short hair on the back. If you wear a beanie you suddenly become bald. If you wear a bandana you get puffy afro hair. Why couldn't the hairstyle be part of the character, and subsequent clothing go on top of it? Why do you have to get a hair transplant just to wear a bandana?

    Further on customization, for some reason both genders look exactly the same. Picking the custom "Nerd" outfit to start with, you can hardly tell if you are playing a male or a female protagonist (they both get a male haircut in that outfit too). This is possibly due to the fact that if they changed the body type much to reflect each gender better, they would need new animations. And of course, they chose the easy way of making the chassis/body shape of each gender the same.

    Graphics and Immersion are Mediocre: Not much to comment on. I played this on Ultra, the FPS was great (~60-80) on my GTX 1080. The outside areas can look beautiful at times when the lighting is not all weird. For the details in the environment, although they did use props around to make the place feel more alive (good work on that!) like a misplaced bicycle, a football, a grill and so on, there is a lack of detail on the actual props. For example, just look at the inside of a vehicle. It looks like a fake plastic toy-car. Also, the environment is completely dead, in the sense that, you can't interact with anything except doors, loot boxes, and (some) light buttons. The content seems to be there to create immersion, but at the same time it kinda breaks it by being hastily done and lack detail, while also making everything "dead" since it is impossible to interact with anything. Finally, it might be the mist and I might be wrong, but the whole outdoors area does feel kind of "blurry," as if there is too much "static" motion blur (I have it off). The graphics can be considered good in my opinion, but could definitely be much much better, and they could definitely do better work on that immersion feeling.

    Other flaws:
    THE LOOT RESPAWNS non-stop after quitting/joining.
    Guns are only a few and shooting is weird.
    There is no stealth at all - you are visible behind walls, fauna, and when behind the enemy.
    Solo play is rough. This game is made for Coop, period.

    All in all, Generation Zero, is sloppy work.    … Expand
  15. DrShepherdLIVE
    Apr 18, 2019
    0
    U need more details than that?
    - Mainquest bugged and sometimes cant be completed
    - Sidequests bugged too and very often cant be completed either - All houses are copy/paste and look the same - Big map with no purpose - Only 6 Robots which spawn every now and then but are boring to fight except one - No real goal in this game - No rewarding if you complete quests or kill robots -    U need more details than that?
    - Mainquest bugged and sometimes cant be completed
    - Sidequests bugged too and very often cant be completed either
    - All houses are copy/paste and look the same
    - Big map with no purpose
    - Only 6 Robots which spawn every now and then but are boring to fight except one
    - No real goal in this game
    - No rewarding if you complete quests or kill robots
    - After 2-5 hours of play you have seen 90% of the game
    - New patch makes systems crash more than before or not even start the game
    - Mods on the forum will delete negative posts or threads entirely if they reveal anger and frustration with the game too much!

    No mans sky - Ripoff to save the company
    Atlas - Ripoff cause greedy company
    Fallout 76 - Ripoff cause Bethesda

    Generation Zero - Ripoff......    … Expand
  16. Kref
    Apr 29, 2020
    0
    The guys do not understand where is a "hardcore" game and where is **** interface" game.
    I was already suspicios to the game watching it poor rating when I start it.
    So in abandoned house and car I've got a gun, medicits and two tipes of ammo, one with 8 bullets and one with 126. I've got a mission market on home and task to find and eliminate an enemy. I couldn't find an enemy for few    The guys do not understand where is a "hardcore" game and where is **** interface" game.
    I was already suspicios to the game watching it poor rating when I start it.
    So in abandoned house and car I've got a gun, medicits and two tipes of ammo, one with 8 bullets and one with 126. I've got a mission market on home and task to find and eliminate an enemy. I couldn't find an enemy for few minutes, so I figured out in youtube that I should move on a road despite marker.
    Allright, here first small robot, I shoot, it shoots, ammo is out, I try reload but no, no way.
    I run away and try to inspect interface how to reload ammo, but it's very unclear. Also I managed tu equip and use one of three medicits. Meanwhile combat can not be stopped no way, so robot pursues my character and kill him.
    Ok, respawn and spent time figuring out how to equip the only remaining type of ammo.. I meet a robot, fight it and ups medicits didn't respawn.
    The pricks thought that because I died because of their **** interface I should searching stupid houses and cars again? No, I'll delete your staff and post a corresponding review on their staff.    … Expand
  17. MartyNosmont
    Mar 26, 2019
    1
    Think of Evolve but even more boring, who even remembers that game existed? I'll put money down you will forget this one even quicker. So now we have the dullness of Evolve, add in boring combat when you do find something to fight in this game, for all that can be done with killer robots they went with pretty much what you could guess off the top of your head, dog robots? Yup. SomethingThink of Evolve but even more boring, who even remembers that game existed? I'll put money down you will forget this one even quicker. So now we have the dullness of Evolve, add in boring combat when you do find something to fight in this game, for all that can be done with killer robots they went with pretty much what you could guess off the top of your head, dog robots? Yup. Something like the tank in Left for dead? Yup.
    Oh and its glitchy as all hell. Enjoooyyyy    … Expand

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 29
  3. Negative: 9 out of 29
  1. Riot Pixels
    May 26, 2019
    50
    Three hours in, and Generation Zero is running on fumes. It will take you 30 hours to get to the end of this story, but what's the point? This game is just as dead as everyone in the alt-dimensional Sweden.
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  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    May 15, 2019
    69
    Generation Zero was designed with co-op in mind, but it lacks basic quality of life features, like dedicated servers, ignore list for matchmaking and even something as vital as integrated voice chat. [Issue#237, p.50]
  3. The Overpowered Noobs
    May 2, 2019
    60
    An interesting take on the post-apocalyptic genre, full of beautiful vistas and a streamlined interface, but moments of awe are punctuated with run-ins with the buggy and inconsistent AI.
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