Quantum Break

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  1. thatjoe
    May 13, 2023
    0
    The narrative and art direction seem alright, but when it comes to core mechanics and actual gameplay, the game feels clumsy and has more than a few porting problems. The graphics aren't great, but the games use a lot of GPU.
  2. ulvido
    Apr 28, 2023
    2
    controls bad. graphics bad(except that time distort shader), shoot feeling non existent. 2 points only for the game idea and the littlefinger. anyway, what is that "end of act 1" cr*p. I rage quited the game right there.
  3. cyberhopser
    Nov 27, 2022
    4
    The story is nice, but missing the "special something". I can't say anything on the often criticized bad performance of the game since I ran it on an i9-10900k and a GTX 1080TI so more than enough power to run even a badly optimized game.
  4. dotrem
    Oct 16, 2022
    4
    Great checkpoints system. Yeah i want to watch this video again before you let me skip it. Great job.
    Great gunplay. Playing against blind mobs so interesting.
    Millions of collectables. Yeah collecting **** - this is why i playing games. Woody cheap syfy series script. It's same as the Lost series situation. First episode is nice but after it's turns into miserable experience. I    Great checkpoints system. Yeah i want to watch this video again before you let me skip it. Great job.
    Great gunplay. Playing against blind mobs so interesting.
    Millions of collectables. Yeah collecting **** - this is why i playing games.
    Woody cheap syfy series script. It's same as the Lost series situation. First episode is nice but after it's turns into miserable experience.

    I can't even finish the game. It's crashed three times during finale battle. So what ever.    … Expand
  5. StarkAgentos
    Apr 5, 2022
    4
    Поиграл 2 часа. Геймплей не является уникальным, тупо шутер от третьего лица. Управление ужасное, персонаж неповоротливый. Видно, что игра была расчитана именно для консолей и пк порт был сделан для галочки, чтобы тупо срезать бабла. Наблюдаются просадки кадров на мощной машине, хоть и в редких случаях. Также бывают подсказки в управлении с кнопками геймпада, хоть я играю на клавиатуре иПоиграл 2 часа. Геймплей не является уникальным, тупо шутер от третьего лица. Управление ужасное, персонаж неповоротливый. Видно, что игра была расчитана именно для консолей и пк порт был сделан для галочки, чтобы тупо срезать бабла. Наблюдаются просадки кадров на мощной машине, хоть и в редких случаях. Также бывают подсказки в управлении с кнопками геймпада, хоть я играю на клавиатуре и мышке. В самом начале написано "когда появляется значок сохранения, не выключайте КОНСОЛЬ". Так трудно было 1 слово поменять? Также графон очень мыльный, будто наложили какой-то специальный эффект. Сглаживания будто вообще нет. Видно, что специально для пк они не стали сильно улучшать графон.… Expand
  6. Simonyan4ik
    Mar 7, 2022
    0
    I didn’t have time to complete the game, they took it from the library on Steam, because I’m from Russia. I require a refund.
  7. vova22379
    Jan 9, 2022
    1
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  8. SRKNZ
    Jun 15, 2021
    1
    A decent concept hamstrung by poor game design that robs the user of control over the character and makes combat much harder than it needs to be. A situation made worse by cut scene overload and shoddy optimisation.

    The result is a irritating, frustrating experience, that feels linear in the worst way possible.
  9. actinium
    Mar 18, 2021
    0
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  10. borastor
    Oct 30, 2020
    0
    the game is very nice but optimization is bad 10/8(story, graphics)
    but I recommend
  11. R3PL1CANT
    Sep 9, 2020
    1
    The worst game I played! WTF is this? Gameplay is sucks, the plot of the game sucks, game design is sucks, everything in this game sucks! Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?!!!! Someone thinks that this game is a masterpiece?
  12. Akk3d1s
    Apr 10, 2020
    4
    Terrible, terrible gameplay...This had so much potential but just got utterly butchered.
  13. mvrts
    Mar 17, 2020
    1
    A joke of a game. Poorly optimized, terrible save points and unnecessarily challenging for no absolute reason simply due to the fact that the mechanics feel like **** They're trying to be too edgy, the idea is there but the execution simply is not. Lots of potential wasted.
  14. GoodMorningAss
    Jan 29, 2020
    4
    The only good thing about this game is the actors, but not the graphics, not the music, etc. Did not like
  15. MarcioCavalcant
    Feb 17, 2019
    4
    This game could have been a masterpiece but the optimization is not only terrible: it's gamebreaking! The games runs inconsistently and is terrible for tinkering with the game options.
    It's also too expensive for what it delivers (not even taking the account the gigantic amount of time you'll have to waste fixing this game's problem and bad performance). - It doesn't matter if you're    This game could have been a masterpiece but the optimization is not only terrible: it's gamebreaking! The games runs inconsistently and is terrible for tinkering with the game options.
    It's also too expensive for what it delivers (not even taking the account the gigantic amount of time you'll have to waste fixing this game's problem and bad performance). - It doesn't matter if you're using 980, 1080ti or 2080 rtx, this game will play badly on your PC (unless you're reading this in the waaayy future and they have fixes those terrible problems).
    Not recommended    … Expand
  16. StoiaAlex
    Jan 9, 2019
    3
    I can't believe this... but I'm giving this game a thumbs down because of bad acting/poor quality filming...You might expect the filming part to be similar with the lighting and feeling imposed by de games graphics (which I found kinda cool, although not that optimised)...but no. It's like a cheap action movie.

    And I'll stop playing even though I found it almost interesting -it made me    I can't believe this... but I'm giving this game a thumbs down because of bad acting/poor quality filming...You might expect the filming part to be similar with the lighting and feeling imposed by de games graphics (which I found kinda cool, although not that optimised)...but no. It's like a cheap action movie.

    And I'll stop playing even though I found it almost interesting -it made me curious- until the first "movie" scene. You might say..why don't you just skip the scenes you don't like?! Well, because it's part of the story and vision. I usually play games because of their story and capability to transport me into their world; skipping over the console style of level design...I can't stand a bad movie.    … Expand
  17. TitaniumDragon
    Oct 30, 2018
    4
    Made by the same studio as Alan Wake, Quantum Break is very much something which follows in the footsteps of that game – a game that focuses very heavily on narrative, with weak gameplay stringing the game along between sections. And much like Alan Wake – indeed, perhaps even more so than that game – it ended up falling short of its potential as a result.

    Quantum Break seems like a    Made by the same studio as Alan Wake, Quantum Break is very much something which follows in the footsteps of that game – a game that focuses very heavily on narrative, with weak gameplay stringing the game along between sections. And much like Alan Wake – indeed, perhaps even more so than that game – it ended up falling short of its potential as a result.

    Quantum Break seems like a really cool idea for a game – you play as Jack Joyce, a man who is involved in the activation of the first time machine, alongside his friend, Paul Serene, and his brother, William Joyce. But something goes terribly wrong – time breaks, and a villainous, much older version of Paul, aged many years, appears shortly after and sics a bunch of corporate goons from his ominous Monarch Corporation on Jack and his brother. It seems the older Paul believes that things cannot be fixed – the end of time is inevitable, nothing can be changed, and he needs some things to ensure that at least some people survive when time stops forever.

    But Jack Joyce isn’t willing to accept that. He has new powers – powers that allow him to manipulate time, to slow it down, to freeze it in certain places, to even rewind it at times. Surely these powers will allow him to change things, to fix it.

    Right?

    This is a really cool premise for a game – the idea of playing a hero with time manipulation powers is inherently really cool, there’s a neat stylization to the time breaks in the game, and the idea of playing around with these powers and beating enemies in cool time-control powered gunfights seems like it would be hard to mess up.

    They messed it up.

    This game’s actual gameplay is quite poor. And it all ultimately comes down to a matter of fluidity – this is a rather clunky third-person shooter. Jack Joyce does not control very fluidly – indeed, many of his powers have a bit of wind-up time, and not only that, transitioning into their use just doesn’t feel nearly as awesome as it should. Running around the battlefield at super speed is represented by freezing time for everyone else, which works okay, but at the same time, you don’t really feel like you’re moving super fast. A flash step sort of dodge is probably the best bit of the game, but the slightly awkward movement sometimes results in you getting snagged on something. Freezing time around someone allows you to pepper them with bullets, but after the first few times, it just doesn’t feel that satisfying – doubly so as many enemies later in the game seem to be immune to the power.

    The other powers, however, are even less reasonable. You’ve got a vision power, which serves as a sort of detective vision, highlighting enemies or interesting objects in the environment, which not only feels like it has been in many games, but also feels like it is not even reflavored or retextured to make it feel more “timey”. You’ve got a shield power that just seems to deflect bullets somehow. And you’ve got a time explosion, letting you blow people up… with time?

    How did they mess up this theming?

    And the whole game sort of feels this way – the gunplay is never all that satisfying, the enemies are pretty much bullet sponges, and only a couple enemy types feel all that interesting to fight (a juggernaut foe who you have to teleport around behind to shoot their backpack out to take them out, and a foe with a version of your own flash step powers). Mostly, the fights are pretty much just swarms of foes circling around you, and while they actually act reasonably dangerous, trying to flank you, your powers make them pretty easy to defeat.

    What should rescue this game is the story, and the people who made it really thought they had that nailed. Every character in the game is based on an actor, and the game is interspersed with four live action segments, each about the length of a TV show episode, which fill in what is going on with the various other characters in the game while Jack Joyce is doing his thing. Moreover, these segments are affected by your actions – picking up certain items in the environment causes “quantum ripples” which affect these segments. But it just doesn't; they tried, but it just doesn't come together, and a lot of the live action stuff feels totally extraneous to the main plot, even if it does help fill in some details.

    In the end, Quantum Break is a disappointment. It takes what should have been a really, really cool idea, and ends up failing to deliver on it. It feels like it made the promise of being a much better game than it actually was, and broke it. It’s hard to say whether that makes it better or worse – better, because at least it has some interesting ideas, or worse, because it fails to actually deliver on most of them.    … Expand
  18. Rewenom
    Dec 16, 2017
    1
    Просто супер-ультра-говно тысячелетия. На его фоне даже No Man's Sky смотрится очень неплохой игрой.
    Я не могу найти в этом высере просто ни одного положительного момента, как бы я не старался.
    -Геймплей - унылый кал. Ты либо ходишь слушаешь персонажей и собираешь филлерные записки, либо перестреливаешься с однотипными врагами. -Перестрелки - параша, где оружие выпускает какие-то струи    Просто супер-ультра-говно тысячелетия. На его фоне даже No Man's Sky смотрится очень неплохой игрой.
    Я не могу найти в этом высере просто ни одного положительного момента, как бы я не старался.
    -Геймплей - унылый кал. Ты либо ходишь слушаешь персонажей и собираешь филлерные записки, либо перестреливаешься с однотипными врагами.
    -Перестрелки - параша, где оружие выпускает какие-то струи мочи.
    -Сюжет - непонятное гавно про перемещения во времени, с кучей штампов и несостыковок уровня Терминатор Генезис.
    Графика - даже на максималках это блевотное мыло, вызывающее эпилептические припадки, меня реально укачивало.
    Музыка - техно-пердёж их двух нот.
    Добавим к этому всему ультра-клише-дженерик сериальчик. Настолько скучный, что я чуть челюсти от зевоты не сломал.
    На озвучку и motion-capture персонажей пригласили реальных актёров, но ни один из них не выступил хорошо. Шон Эшмор aka Икс-мен, который типо морозит,(протагонист) - просто ходит в шатанах с подворотами и как даун вечно тупит; Эйдан Гиллен, играющий антагониста, - постоянно ухмыляется, как будто задумал гениальный план, а не деле полный мудак; Доминик Монаган(брат протагониста) - это ебаный гиперактивный бурундук, жаль что он не здох; Ленс Реддик - непонятный персонаж, просто лупоглазый негр, который на всех пырит и пугает до усрачки.
    Ставлю один бал за песню Trainwreck в финальных титрах, а так это, без сомнений, полный ноль.    … Expand
  19. Joe_Friday
    May 1, 2017
    0
    It's a bug filled mess, but Remedy is making a (slow) effort to patch it. They basically just took an Xbox game and transplanted it into a PC release with no regard for the multitudes of different PCs that would be playing it. If you have the exact same specs as an Xbox then it's playable. If you have any different type of hardware in your system then you're out of luck. It took them 2It's a bug filled mess, but Remedy is making a (slow) effort to patch it. They basically just took an Xbox game and transplanted it into a PC release with no regard for the multitudes of different PCs that would be playing it. If you have the exact same specs as an Xbox then it's playable. If you have any different type of hardware in your system then you're out of luck. It took them 2 months to make it playable for AMD processor owners.

    As for gameplay, it copies several different games. They've taken the 'TV Show' aspect of 2010's Alan Wake for the story, and borrowed the time manipulation combat from Capcom's 2013 game Remember Me. What was meant to be groundbreaking just looks dated and derivative. The graphics even look last generation, which makes it puzzling as to why the game runs so poorly.

    In conclusion, it's still not recommended, even months after release.    … Expand
  20. Dokkodo
    Dec 1, 2016
    4
    There's just too many scars on the face of what should be a beautiful game.

    Visually it's great, even if it is optimized awfully and the graphics can suffer from this even on a good machine. But even on lowered settings the game looks pretty cool. The storyline is also interesting. Granted time travel is a plot device that is intrinsically interesting, all you have to do is not be    There's just too many scars on the face of what should be a beautiful game.

    Visually it's great, even if it is optimized awfully and the graphics can suffer from this even on a good machine. But even on lowered settings the game looks pretty cool.

    The storyline is also interesting. Granted time travel is a plot device that is intrinsically interesting, all you have to do is not be awful from that point. The branching storyline and your actions effecting is a cool concept, but ultimately feels forced and inconsequential. By the end of the first act I was already done hunting for extras.

    Exploring and finding the little tidbits wouldn't be so bad if the movement and parkour weren't god awful. Seriously, in a game with awesomely cool time physics and stuff exploding and moving around...why do people move so awfully? I wish they spent a fraction of the time on player movement that they did on the environment, the juxtaposition is annoying.

    The shooting is pretty standard, not a lot of gun choices and your powers are pretty standard.

    The motion capture is good at faces, I started the game going "Hey that's Iceman!" "Hey that's Littlefinger!" "Hey that's the junkie guitar player from LOST!"    … Expand
  21. HomerCidal
    Nov 25, 2016
    2
    This game plays like rubbish on PC, if I had wanted a console game I would have bought one. Very little in customization... especially if your left handed, actual action gameplay is terrible, I feel like I am playing a game 10yrs old not just released. Has nothing on Remember Me or Tomb Raider... worst port to PC ever... not recommended
  22. Baronz
    Nov 6, 2016
    3
    Unplayable, lag and stuttering everywhere, and sometimes the frame rate drops to a single digit number. And even if i tried to like the gameplay i can't really stand the hour long live action cutscene.
  23. clashjoze
    Oct 20, 2016
    4
    It does not look amazing. It does not feel amazing. Combat is medicore. I like consoles and own, but their influence on PC gaming is not OK. Many games today are dumbed down in gameplay and in graphics. I do not want that.
  24. 007arpan
    Oct 3, 2016
    0
    Worst optimization...Even the steam version isn't optimized...And the last part is so damn illogical...Ultimately you can say it's one of the worst pc game ever...Don't waste your hard working money on this...
  25. ant1free3
    Sep 30, 2016
    0
    Crap. Minimum 4460? System reqs... %&cked.. . Excellent **** **** System requirements from God, 16 gigabytes of RAM? 8 min? Are you serious? pine dick
  26. dnm
    Aug 31, 2016
    3
    This game is unplayable for me. The only way it is even remotely playable is if you go down to 1080p, although still really bad performance. I have a recent i7, a Geforce 1080, 144Hz IPS 2560x1440 with G-SYNC, OS on an m.2 , game on a SATA SSD. No response from developer and no fix in sight. Just vague promises that never panned out.
  27. Crackfarmer
    Jun 9, 2016
    0
    Terrible Game, only accessible in windows store - minus one point
    windows 10 exlcusive - minus one
    awful performance - minus one
    ultra settings was only possible with 1 gpu worldwide at release - not everyone has 800€, minus one
    no real gameplay more like a storytelling - minus one
    denuvo - minus 5

    One of the worst Games of the 21th century.
  28. ellobo29
    May 28, 2016
    1
    1/10

    Game is almost unplayable even with near best in slot PC. Constant crashes, freezing, glitches, and it looks like on here I am not the only one. I have never had a game play this horribly. Avoid this game at all costs, just watch on youtube like I wish I did. I gave it a 1 just because I liked the story.... but had to restart PC many times to play game. Horrible port.
  29. irishbloke
    May 22, 2016
    4
    Terrable port, runs really badly on PC even with decent Specs, avoid the PC version its rubbish.

    The story is decent and the episodes are very good but this doesnt make up for that fact that is over-priced and over-hyped rubbish.

    Game play is decent but their just isnt enough of it, with the game being very short and poor value for money.
  30. BreakingAwesome
    May 14, 2016
    4
    Ужасно! Очень низкое разрешение в Xbox One версии на уровне 2005 года. Неоправданно высокие системные требование для ПК. Куча ошибок в Windows Store. Слишком коридорною игру создали Ремеди. Никакого разнообразия. Единственно, порадовало ролики, очень качественно снятые. И да, MIcrosoft слишком переборщили с рекламой собственной продукции в этих роликах.

    Итог: игра на уровне паст-гена,    Ужасно! Очень низкое разрешение в Xbox One версии на уровне 2005 года. Неоправданно высокие системные требование для ПК. Куча ошибок в Windows Store. Слишком коридорною игру создали Ремеди. Никакого разнообразия. Единственно, порадовало ролики, очень качественно снятые. И да, MIcrosoft слишком переборщили с рекламой собственной продукции в этих роликах.

    Итог: игра на уровне паст-гена, что по геймплею, что и по общей концепции игры.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Pelit (Finland)
    Nov 9, 2016
    84
    Yet another well done Remedy shooter, but I rather play the game than watch looong videos, even though they are pretty well done. [Oct 2016]
  2. Gaming Nexus
    Oct 26, 2016
    95
    Quantum Break is a great game from start to finish, and playing it with all the benefits of being on PC just make it that much better. Given that this game is coming out at a lower price point on PC as well, there's just not excuse not to get it.
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  3. IGN Spain
    Oct 26, 2016
    78
    Quantum Break arrives to PC completely unaltered, with all its lights and shadows, but offers an improved visual experience by exploiting the highest hardware configurations and an enhanced control system thanks to the inclusion of the mouse.
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