Quantum Break

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  1. gameking
    Jul 20, 2021
    7
    This game has an interesting story. The tv series idea is good actually. The graphics and effects are very good. The bad parts are variety of gameplay and fps drops. I played with rtx 2070 and too many times ı played with 20-35 fps.
  2. VigilanteOito
    Mar 7, 2022
    7
    Pontos positivos: Graficos, historia.
    Pontos negativos: dialogos longos e chatos, personagem muito travado.

    Se tirasse essas longas cenas de dialogos, o game seria um otimo shooter.
  3. Dariya
    Jul 2, 2021
    7
    Summary:
    Not a bad game, the graphics were good, the gameplay was nice, but the story (for me) felt unfinished and uninteresting.
  4. Zinaldo
    Aug 24, 2023
    7
    not a bad game , game story is interesting and game play is not bad either.
  5. MertAslan
    Sep 11, 2020
    7
    Quantum Break has a good story. But somewhere the game is stopped for moovies and it's kinda annoying.But same time action mechanics are great.Characters became a friend or enemy for you.Shortly there's a game what has a good story but same time bad decisions are made.
  6. LyhaMaksim
    Nov 1, 2020
    7
    Игра заслуживает внимания!

    Думаю каждый из нас читал книги или смотрел фильмы про путешествие во времени, и вспоминая былые ошибки думал: "Эх... Было бы классно вернуться в прошлое и исправить все где я накасячил". Думая об этом, вы не думали: может быть все это предначертано, все ваши действия которые вы когда-либо делали так и должны были произойти? Итак. Эта игра напрочь разрушает    Игра заслуживает внимания!

    Думаю каждый из нас читал книги или смотрел фильмы про путешествие во времени, и вспоминая былые ошибки думал: "Эх... Было бы классно вернуться в прошлое и исправить все где я накасячил". Думая об этом, вы не думали: может быть все это предначертано, все ваши действия которые вы когда-либо делали так и должны были произойти?
    Итак. Эта игра напрочь разрушает стену между фильмом и игрой, здесь вам предстоит не только любоваться мыльными красотами игровой индустрии, а еще и реальными актерами. Как вы уже могли увидеть в трейлере Remedy Entertainment на пару с Microsoft Studios сняли сериал который мы с вами будем лицезреть после каждой главы в игре.
    Что касается жанра шутер, хех, то могу вас заверить - геймплей у игры довольно динамичный, но стрелять вам придется маловато.
    Игра и вправду уникальна, мало того что игра с гениальным сюжетом, так еще и сериал в придачу, Remedy Entertainment отдали игре слишком много внимания, сделали ее неповторимой! Теперь не только у консольщиков есть "Мыльное кинцо"!

    P.S. И помните: титры не означают что игра окончена.

    Спасибо за прочтение моего обзора)
    Играйте только в хорошие игры)    … Expand
  7. flwixs
    Apr 2, 2022
    7
    Сюжет на месте, путешествия во времени не кажутся тупыми и банальными, у всех действий если какой то итоговый результат, персонажи и актеры интересные. В игре достаточно минусов за что можно ее хуесосить, но только не за таймлайны, все органично и правильно сделано на мой взгляд. Есть пару не понятных сюжетных дыр и пару странных локации, а так же идея вместить в игру сериал, но в принципеСюжет на месте, путешествия во времени не кажутся тупыми и банальными, у всех действий если какой то итоговый результат, персонажи и актеры интересные. В игре достаточно минусов за что можно ее хуесосить, но только не за таймлайны, все органично и правильно сделано на мой взгляд. Есть пару не понятных сюжетных дыр и пару странных локации, а так же идея вместить в игру сериал, но в принципе проект удачный и всем рекомендую.… Expand
  8. PenetratorGod
    Sep 2, 2023
    7
    It's definitely an underrated game. Gameplay was very enjoyable and the story was average. You should give this game a chance if you haven't played it yet.
  9. rodericrinehart
    Jan 1, 2017
    6
    I do recommend it, but with some reservations. It is only worth a sale price. It has ok gameplay, but definitely has some issues. It still has quite a few bugs and in the 15-hour playthrough, it crashed numerous times. The cover system and gunplay was ok at best. You push through it for story.

    The story itself was enjoyable and live action stuff was passable. I would've just preferred    I do recommend it, but with some reservations. It is only worth a sale price. It has ok gameplay, but definitely has some issues. It still has quite a few bugs and in the 15-hour playthrough, it crashed numerous times. The cover system and gunplay was ok at best. You push through it for story.

    The story itself was enjoyable and live action stuff was passable. I would've just preferred more interspersed in-game cinematics though. The story does an actual good job with time travel but I won't spoil the details. It adhered to how we think differences would work between changing the past and the future.    … Expand
  10. Lamp
    Nov 11, 2016
    6
    Unplayable because of horrible stutter unless VSYNC is turned off.. Runs OK on ultra with FX 6350 and RX 470 with VSYNC off only and bearable, slight tearing (mostly hovers just under 60FPS with drops to 35).

    Very commercial product, little artistic value compared to Max Payne and Alan Wake. Feels empty, e.g., there's no equivalent to Lords and Ladies; only a few, boring guns; awkward    Unplayable because of horrible stutter unless VSYNC is turned off.. Runs OK on ultra with FX 6350 and RX 470 with VSYNC off only and bearable, slight tearing (mostly hovers just under 60FPS with drops to 35).

    Very commercial product, little artistic value compared to Max Payne and Alan Wake. Feels empty, e.g., there's no equivalent to Lords and Ladies; only a few, boring guns; awkward movement of character / covertaking; graphical and movement glitches    … Expand
  11. Mallenlane
    Nov 5, 2017
    6
    It’s ok, but mostly missable if I’m being honest. The story has its interesting points and the acting is generally good. The graphics are nice, but the game runs poorly even on high end hardware. The gameplay is pretty meh, run and gun with powers that are not as interesting as the onscreen effects want them to be.

    It’s certainly not as interesting as Alan Wake was.
  12. tigerskin84
    Apr 7, 2016
    6
    es un perdida de dinero!! muy mal optimizado es de los peores ports que hay de esta generacion! lo unico bueno es que tiene lindos graficos, nada mas...
  13. Hersir
    Oct 10, 2017
    6
    Pro:

    + Twisty plot with variations depending on forks you choose, unconventional narrative through gameplay sequences as both protagonist and antagonist but also with long live action cutscenes in between. + Nice scriptwriting, dialogues, compelling characters with decent sound acting. + Well-built environments with stunning attention to small details. + There are those upgradable    Pro:

    + Twisty plot with variations depending on forks you choose, unconventional narrative through gameplay sequences as both protagonist and antagonist but also with long live action cutscenes in between.
    + Nice scriptwriting, dialogues, compelling characters with decent sound acting.
    + Well-built environments with stunning attention to small details.
    + There are those upgradable supernatural powers you get to better deal with your enemies and circumvent environmental obstacles. Not saying they are unique though as we've seen tons of this already.
    + Some of the scenes are pretty dope, especially navigating and fighting during "frozen time" later in the game. Definitely produces a wow-effect.

    Contra:

    - Resource black hole graphics that still has quite many glitches/artifacts for its supposed quality. On my 1080 Ti and 2K resolution I had to dial down some settings for playable (>60) FPS. The game sure looks good but nothing to justify its requirements and performance.
    - Game crashes every now and then.
    - Despite the plot forks, levels are shallowly linear.
    - Shooting-related mechanic feels wrong and immersion breaking. There's that insanely strong unnatural radial bullet spread (accuracy and recoil don't work like that), range is limited on many weapons (like bullets dematerialize at some CLOSE point), obstructive aiming camera with too much parallax at close ranges where a lot of action happens (at least give the guy a laser pointer to deal with parallax problem), bullets are weak like .22LR and take a lot of time to kill both protagonist and enemies, not to mention pistol ammo is infinite (I guess spoils of black hole and time-travel techs, but seriously it's just babysitting the modern casual "untergamers" - the maps have occasional infinite ammo backpacks for resupply so why the hustle).
    - There's no stealth and melee is very limited which means the game boils down to using the sloppy shooting mechanics in all confrontations. Yeah, showing its weak side all the time.
    - Cake walk for kids, even "hard" difficulty is not hard at all. Add health regen to this problem, gone are the old sour days of Max Payne where you would twitchly search for painkillers because game didn't forgive your mistakes. There are no options to make the game challenging enough for a die hard player while it's the easiest thing to do with a simple numbers tweak. Damn, you gave the guy superpowers but his real superpower is that he eats bullets like a tank, heals like a demon and has a black hole pistol clip.

    In summa:

    Not recommended for purchase, it will lag terribly on anything below 2017 hi-end PC and it's a one-pass amusement after all - replayability despite all the plot forks is small because the core aspect of the game - shooting - is pretty bland, unsatisfying and thus repetetive like a chore, not to mention the linear level structure. It has no multiplayer anyway so you know where to get it for a free try...    … Expand
  14. MoroseTroll
    Mar 11, 2019
    6
    I haven't finished the game, and I doubt I'll ever return to it. Actually, I was gonna rate this game 8/10, but:
    1) I just *hate* checkpoint save system in every game, so I'm sorry, Remedy, minus one.
    2) The final boss fight took me two days, and yet I haven't beat it. I can't afford to spend more my time for this! The game is 3 years old, but you, Remedy, still don't understand that    I haven't finished the game, and I doubt I'll ever return to it. Actually, I was gonna rate this game 8/10, but:
    1) I just *hate* checkpoint save system in every game, so I'm sorry, Remedy, minus one.
    2) The final boss fight took me two days, and yet I haven't beat it. I can't afford to spend more my time for this! The game is 3 years old, but you, Remedy, still don't understand that there *should be* a checkpoint between the two waves of enemies? How long do I need to listen that "Forget ..." phrase? One hundred times? Two hundreds? One thousand? That's totally unacceptable! Minus one.

    Bottom line: 6/10.

    P.S. I'll never buy your next games (for example, Control) until you fix this one.    … Expand
  15. KARF4GEN
    May 10, 2018
    6
    2016 год был богат на игры со временем. Две локации в Titanfall и Dishonored были посвящены играм с ним и вот эпилогом к моде стал Квантовый разлом.
    Эта игра крутой ответ inFamous и Uncharted, мог бы быть крутым ответом не продаваясь на старте на мертворожденном Хуане и тем более сторе Мелкософт.
    Нельзя сказать, что у Квантового разлома есть какой-то хватающий с неба звезды сценарий, но    2016 год был богат на игры со временем. Две локации в Titanfall и Dishonored были посвящены играм с ним и вот эпилогом к моде стал Квантовый разлом.
    Эта игра крутой ответ inFamous и Uncharted, мог бы быть крутым ответом не продаваясь на старте на мертворожденном Хуане и тем более сторе Мелкософт.
    Нельзя сказать, что у Квантового разлома есть какой-то хватающий с неба звезды сценарий, но в целом эти интересно смотреть.
    Да, вы все верно прочли.
    В это интересно не играть, а смотреть.
    Смотреть кат-сцены, смотреть сериал, а с игрой беда.
    Скучная стрельба из одинакового оружия, скучныe локации-арены для краткосрочнjq войнушки
    Все на этом.
    Вот и весь геймлей вышел.    … Expand
  16. AlexKVideos1
    Mar 13, 2021
    6
    Damn, what a shame. This is a game I wanted to play for years, and now I finally understand why it was so poorly received. Quantum Break is an interesting idea with a relatively competent story. Yet, it all falls apart in the gameplay.

    Firstly, the mouse movement for this game is very weird. It makes the game feel like its running at a lower framerate due to a 'jitteriness' that I've    Damn, what a shame. This is a game I wanted to play for years, and now I finally understand why it was so poorly received. Quantum Break is an interesting idea with a relatively competent story. Yet, it all falls apart in the gameplay.

    Firstly, the mouse movement for this game is very weird. It makes the game feel like its running at a lower framerate due to a 'jitteriness' that I've never seen in a game before. Even when using a mod to turn off the motionblur, it doesn't fix the issue as some claimed it did. Plus, for some reason, you can't change your ADS speed, which is always lower sensitivity than your hip fire.

    Secondly, the gun play sucks. All the weapons feel like pea shooters. Some, like the assault rifle, has a ridiculous bullet spread, while the heavy pistol has insultingly harsh recoil. It feels like they did this in order to force you to use the time abilities. For a developer that made the first two Max Payne games, this gun play is insulting.

    Thirdly, movement doesn't feel good. It feels very stiff like a Rockstar game as animations take priority over pinpoint movement. Like, literally at one point, Jack would refuse to jump on boxes that the game wanted him to jump on. Seriously, how is the movement system this bad? Plus, what was the reason to remove the crotch button? Now, Jack will automatically take cover when near objects. Yet, its not always consistent leaving you vulnerable.

    Lastly, this game just runs bad. It probably didn't help that they were using an unfamiliar API, DirectX 12, then switched to DirectX 11 for the Steam release. My system is definitely getting older, but it shouldn't chug as much as it does.

    Quantum Break was an interesting idea that does decent for the story execution, but completely fails when it tries to be a game...    … Expand
  17. NightGeisha
    Jan 2, 2019
    6
    Quantum Break is a very linear story, a science fiction action-adventure third-person shooter that put us on the role of Jack Joice, to whom it was granted time manipulation powers after a failed time-machine experiment. After finishing the story in normal mode, and start replay the game again in hard, I think it's the right moment for the review of the game.

    First of all let's talk    Quantum Break is a very linear story, a science fiction action-adventure third-person shooter that put us on the role of Jack Joice, to whom it was granted time manipulation powers after a failed time-machine experiment. After finishing the story in normal mode, and start replay the game again in hard, I think it's the right moment for the review of the game.

    First of all let's talk already in game duration and "re-playability". The game is short and the ideia of replay it again its not a very attractive task, it seems unnecessary and a repetitive task. Obviously if you want to complete unfinished achievements, find all the in-game collectibles or see all the alternatives routes to the story you have to do it. But does it justify?
    The game presents an interesting idea that puts pieces of history in video, like a TV show, that completes in a very nice way the playable story. But this aspect, although an interesting concept, it kind of disguises the fact that the game is small.

    Visually the game is very good, even with the appearance blurred or de-fragmented. I was surprised by the fluidity of the game (very near the 60 fps all the time on my 1060). I had read that there were huge performance problems in the PC when the game was released, but apparently the problems were overcome.

    Overall it is a very nice gaming experience, especially for its history with all the twists, turns and "time travel loops" of a good sci-fi story. Here is small YouTube vide with the first minutes of the gameplay if you wanna check it out: https://youtu.be/qXlIjqy50g4    … Expand
  18. Munno
    Feb 27, 2019
    6
    Bad port for pc, graphics are good, plot and combat system had potential and it's fun sometimes, but the gameplay gets repetitive and boring, characters have no charisma, the narrative does note excite and it's boring to explore collectables in obvious places without anything special...
  19. kezzyhko
    Sep 1, 2020
    6
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  20. SPARTAN-010
    Jun 6, 2021
    6
    Performance aside, this game has a very interesting story, but said story is not spared from plot holes/contrivances/conveniences, very strong characters aside from MC (guy acts like a hero when he literally kills a ton of people).

    OST is very fitting and always a pleasure to hear, acting is also top notch as you'd expect from such a cast. Gameplay is almost interesting, but it ends    Performance aside, this game has a very interesting story, but said story is not spared from plot holes/contrivances/conveniences, very strong characters aside from MC (guy acts like a hero when he literally kills a ton of people).

    OST is very fitting and always a pleasure to hear, acting is also top notch as you'd expect from such a cast.

    Gameplay is almost interesting, but it ends up just feeling like a glorified TPS, and gets old after a while.

    Overall though, the game is worth playing through, I personally enjoyed it (the first time around atleast), but isn't anything extraordinary, ending is a bit lackluster too, the tv show side of the game is innovative afaik and is serviceable.    … Expand
  21. tufekciero
    Mar 12, 2021
    6
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  22. Polthank
    Mar 12, 2022
    6
    Good story , excellent graphics (clearly this adds up a lot) and a very peculiar combat . If you feel like it, buy it without hesitation.
  23. EVIL_UJIN
    Oct 15, 2022
    6
    Интересная идея совмещения сериала с игрой разбилась о неудачное, бездушное исполнение.
    Из плюсов игры можно отметить:
    + Интересная задумка, когда выбор в игре влияет на события сериала + Красивые спецэффекты и ролики на движке А вот минусов хоть отбавляй: - Скучные , одинаковые бои - Буквально 5 (!) типов противников на всю игру (обычный охранник/охранник в броне с    Интересная идея совмещения сериала с игрой разбилась о неудачное, бездушное исполнение.
    Из плюсов игры можно отметить:
    + Интересная задумка, когда выбор в игре влияет на события сериала
    + Красивые спецэффекты и ролики на движке
    А вот минусов хоть отбавляй:
    - Скучные , одинаковые бои
    - Буквально 5 (!) типов противников на всю игру (обычный охранник/охранник в броне с пулеметом/охранник в ОЧЕНЬ ТОЛСТОЙ броне/Охранник- телепортер/снайпер)
    - Однотипные , штампованные локации: Офисы, библиотека, лаборатории, стройка, склад. Так как сюжет завязан на путешествиях во времени, то, как вы понимаете, в некоторых локациях вам придется побывать по нескольку раз, что разннообразия, конечно, не прибавляет.
    -Очень запутанный сюжет с кучей несостыковок, в котором не хочется разбираться, а хочется, чтобы это все поскорее закончилось
    - Туповатый ИИ. Максимум на что способны солдаты противника -попытаться обойти со спины или кинуть гранату. ВСЕ! Противник НЕ прячется за укрытиями/ НЕ перепрыгивает через препятствия/ НЕ пригибается. Извините, но для игры 2016 года с акцентом на шутер, это просто провал. Чего стоят одни снайперы, которые НЕ двигаются со своего поста, а просто стоят и стреляют, как будто приклеены:)    … Expand
  24. ultraviper
    Sep 10, 2019
    5
    The game isn't great, but it's not bad either. The production values are top notch. The graphics are good. The story is average. The cutscenes are too long and too numerous. But the real issue is that the gameplay is just mediocre. It's a 3rd person cover shooter where you have recharging special abilities. The enemies are all dudes with guns. Every battle in the game feels exactly theThe game isn't great, but it's not bad either. The production values are top notch. The graphics are good. The story is average. The cutscenes are too long and too numerous. But the real issue is that the gameplay is just mediocre. It's a 3rd person cover shooter where you have recharging special abilities. The enemies are all dudes with guns. Every battle in the game feels exactly the same as the previous one.… Expand
  25. 21grams
    Oct 28, 2016
    5
    A WASTED POTENTIAL.

    First of all, the PC port is pretty bad. And while game maxed out looks pretty neat, yet the performance is all over the place and you need solid PC to even bother with the game. Now by default you get upscaled resolution, but the games looks quite bad with it at any settings (overly blurry and not sharp). Turning off upscaling (meaning game renders in set    A WASTED POTENTIAL.

    First of all, the PC port is pretty bad. And while game maxed out looks pretty neat, yet the performance is all over the place and you need solid PC to even bother with the game. Now by default you get upscaled resolution, but the games looks quite bad with it at any settings (overly blurry and not sharp). Turning off upscaling (meaning game renders in set resolution) basically cuts performance by half. On top of that, game feels laggy at times even at 50-60fps, while other times it feels more responsive even during fps drops.

    The game had massive potential, great idea, good core of the story are already there, but there were some bad decisions and design choices made, that hurt the game severely:
    - TV show + game - bad idea and while it's not the worst tv show out there, yet it was interrupting game flow severely.
    - Terrible gameplay design - very repetitive. Basically you do some platforming, get to an open area, beat some bullet spongy bad guys - and repeat. Now while time manipulation powers are cool to play with, gunplay ruins it all - which is very primitive, with clumsy movement and shooting controls, to the point where game doesn't even feel responsive.

    They should have do more story telling thru gameplay (now 90% of it is done in the cutscenes and notes you find thru out the game), that would make gameplay more interesting and diverse, because now you just fight exactly the same dudes over and over again in the same manner every single time and there is nothing more to it..

    It could have been great game, but Remedy chose a bad path and we've got a product which is neither a proper game, neither a proper tv show.. Too much cinematic bullcrap, when you make a game, you can't forget it's a game and it needs solid gameplay and this game doesn't have it.    … Expand
  26. ShaMana
    Jan 29, 2020
    5
    Sadly a fairly mediocre experience. Visually the game is excellent. The lighting, character models, effects all amazing.

    The story and gameplay is where it falters. Actions is a mess of confusing steps. You are presented with a number of abilities that sometimes work, sometimes don't and the responsiveness feels a bit arbitrary. You time shift next to an enemy with the intent to let him    Sadly a fairly mediocre experience. Visually the game is excellent. The lighting, character models, effects all amazing.

    The story and gameplay is where it falters. Actions is a mess of confusing steps. You are presented with a number of abilities that sometimes work, sometimes don't and the responsiveness feels a bit arbitrary. You time shift next to an enemy with the intent to let him have a shotgun blast in the face but the character ends up fiddling with the weapon and you realize the enemy has plenty of time to pump you full of led. Or the game encourages to collect some stuff around the level but only when it decides to until it randomly takes away your ability to jump and run making the collecting of something in sight impossible (restart of the level is required at that point). Shootouts at the end are a massive choir and a pain in the bum. Enemies spawn out of thin air without point or reason, just to prolong the encounter. Killing the same faceless guys over and over and over again. I guess that is the pointlessness of the situation. At some point you start thinking at the sheer number of people you slaughter just because they've hurt your feelings or something.

    The story is also sadly something that has wild ups and downs. It looks like from the beginning was never intended for them to use the faces of famous actors. They feel out of place. This is reinforced further when you encounters the two main characters from the 2014 E3 demo which models are still used as support cast now, and have superior facial expressions and emotional range, than the fairly stiff actors faces. But the biggest issues is that you never really care about them. They are nothing more than talking heads that propel the plot further. There is a mysterious force that transforms one of your best friends in to a homicide maniac, people shift allegiance after the words please and you are occasionally playing as the bad guy making decisions with ultimately fall flat as they are based on experiences that this character should have (while playing with the main protagonist). Worst bit the game doesn't bother explaining anything.

    The big finale ends with a whimper, setting up a cataclysm that is never presented, explained or detailed in any form. It's just so horrible that would make people go bananas and you gotta trust them on that.

    I guess, my expectations were way too high.

    A quick performance note: Game runs fine on a mid range hardware from 2017. Just make sure you tame your expectations and always install on an ssd, there is a lot of content streaming and it does require something faster than an ordinary spin drive.    … Expand
  27. Wiebe
    Feb 26, 2020
    5
    Bad port, the tv elements didn't really work, gameplay was ok but not great, story was predicable and the game therefore became a chore.
  28. Aelyn
    Apr 5, 2016
    5
    Pros:
    − somewhat enjoyable plot
    − overall nice graphics (but it still looks blurry as hell unless you are able to play in 4K or 4K DSR... probably with 5-15 FPS) − Aidan Gillen (Petyr Baelish from Game of Thrones) as one of the main characters (for me personally he saved this thing from being a total trainwreck) Cons: − runs like **** even at 1080p (4790K @ 4.8 GHz, GTX 980 SLI --    Pros:
    − somewhat enjoyable plot
    − overall nice graphics (but it still looks blurry as hell unless you are able to play in 4K or 4K DSR... probably with 5-15 FPS)
    − Aidan Gillen (Petyr Baelish from Game of Thrones) as one of the main characters (for me personally he saved this thing from being a total trainwreck)

    Cons:
    − runs like **** even at 1080p (4790K @ 4.8 GHz, GTX 980 SLI -- which is actually not working) and there's no exclusive fullscreen mode
    − totally unplayable on my monitor's native resolution (3440x1440)
    − it should be called "Quantum Sponge" because you need to shoot at everyone SO MUCH that it feels beyond unrealistic
    − the game was completed in less than 8 hours
    − ridiculous price (70 EUR)

    If it weren't for movie(s), I'd give it 3/10. The actual game feels like "god damn I need it to end immediately so I can watch next episode". Waste of money.

    P.S.
    English is not my native language, so please excuse me if this review hurts your eyes .__.    … Expand
  29. Shadow1
    May 21, 2016
    5
    I love it , but this game sucks deserves eg with Watch Dogs . Storyline in Watch dogs a hundred times better than Quantum Break . Quantum Break isn't bad game, but disappointed game . This game by disappointed over tuuk Watch Dogs, Watch Dogs is very very amazing game with awesome storyline and Quantum Break sucks on the background Watch Dogs and I sorry for the fact I rate Watch Dogs 7I love it , but this game sucks deserves eg with Watch Dogs . Storyline in Watch dogs a hundred times better than Quantum Break . Quantum Break isn't bad game, but disappointed game . This game by disappointed over tuuk Watch Dogs, Watch Dogs is very very amazing game with awesome storyline and Quantum Break sucks on the background Watch Dogs and I sorry for the fact I rate Watch Dogs 7 out of 10 and Quantum Break earned 5/10 .… Expand
  30. ali_arkani
    Jun 17, 2016
    5
    It's not worth your money, your time, anything! The graphics are half what they were promised. Gameplay is repetitive. AI is as dumb as a goat, even worse! The story is a cliche. Why the hell did I even played it!?
  31. Colbert
    Oct 14, 2016
    5
    I had to reverse time to move a dumpster 5 feet so i could climb onto a ledge that was already reachable had the character been able to raise his arms while jumping. Ridiculous contrivances like this spoiled the gameplay. Predictable shooting areas will throw a few bullet sponge soldiers at you where you can use the crappy guns or your pathetically weak and limited time powers toI had to reverse time to move a dumpster 5 feet so i could climb onto a ledge that was already reachable had the character been able to raise his arms while jumping. Ridiculous contrivances like this spoiled the gameplay. Predictable shooting areas will throw a few bullet sponge soldiers at you where you can use the crappy guns or your pathetically weak and limited time powers to tediously deal with them. Would have been a better SYFY movie. Good graphics, interesting story.… Expand
  32. isamasie
    Nov 25, 2017
    5
    This game was so horrible. i was so boring when i played this game.

    Im not going to recommend never ever! If you have much time or you want to waste your time

    yes go ahead!
  33. quanta
    Sep 1, 2018
    5
    I regret buying the game. They clearly put much work and resources into making this, however they delivered poorly. The story is over the top and the gameplay rather unsatisfying. There is a lot of nonsense and the playing is bland and unrewarding with clunky controls. Performance is also rather bad as others pointed out.
  34. LetMePickThat
    Aug 7, 2018
    5
    Quantum Break was a fantastic project, and end up wasted because of poor PC optimisation and gameplay incoherences.

    While the story itslef is really interesting, and the whole concept of serie-in-a-game could provide for a very good experience, the sheer difficulty we PC players have to run the game smoothly prevented me from enjoying what I was playing. This plus the general lack of    Quantum Break was a fantastic project, and end up wasted because of poor PC optimisation and gameplay incoherences.

    While the story itslef is really interesting, and the whole concept of serie-in-a-game could provide for a very good experience, the sheer difficulty we PC players have to run the game smoothly prevented me from enjoying what I was playing. This plus the general lack of ennemies, weapons and alternatives approaches to given situations ingame creates a frustrating, yet interesting experience.    … Expand
  35. Galactica
    Sep 30, 2018
    5
    More of a videoplayer than a game.
    Such a wasted potential for a intresting setup.
  36. RomanGor
    Nov 7, 2019
    5
    Неплохой сериал-игра, перенесенный с консолей. Да, есть мыльцо, но не такое как в мафии 3, и есть унылость прохождения. Зато легкая "платина"
  37. teodorneotov
    Nov 3, 2021
    5
    Плюсы: Великолепный сюжет, крутой сериал. Шикарная стилистика. Интересная боёвка. Минусы: Линейный тупой геймплей, шаг в сторону и скрипт тебя убивает. Миллион тупоголовых ботов которые давят тебя количеством. Такая себе графика даже для 2016. Ужасная оптимизация./Не покупал и не захотел купить. Допрошёл только ради того, чтобы увидеть как всё будет, так как сюжет действительно хорош.Плюсы: Великолепный сюжет, крутой сериал. Шикарная стилистика. Интересная боёвка. Минусы: Линейный тупой геймплей, шаг в сторону и скрипт тебя убивает. Миллион тупоголовых ботов которые давят тебя количеством. Такая себе графика даже для 2016. Ужасная оптимизация./Не покупал и не захотел купить. Допрошёл только ради того, чтобы увидеть как всё будет, так как сюжет действительно хорош. Настолько же хорош, насколько ужасен геймплей.///Pros: Great plot, cool TV series. Chic style. Interesting fight. Minuses: Linear dumb gameplay, step aside and the script kills you. A million stupid bots that crush you in number. Bad graphics even for 2016. Terrible optimization./Didn't buy and didn't want to buy while playing. I only interrogated it to see how everything would turn out, since the plot is really good. As good as the gameplay is terrible.… Expand
  38. MidNightCola
    Mar 11, 2023
    5
    while the the story phasing, Live action, and the voice acting is perfectly done the animations falls flat, with a lot of jittering, and bad movements, the gun play is good and abilities are well done the upgrades are uninteresting and some guns are just worthless and bad cover system doesn't help. the graphics are good but the technical side is problematic with bad shadows and lightning,while the the story phasing, Live action, and the voice acting is perfectly done the animations falls flat, with a lot of jittering, and bad movements, the gun play is good and abilities are well done the upgrades are uninteresting and some guns are just worthless and bad cover system doesn't help. the graphics are good but the technical side is problematic with bad shadows and lightning, gameplay is OK but the amount of "i got stuck" is a little bit sad to see. the story is good and live actions make it even better, but the game need help with updates and fixes, but there will be none so that's where the score comes from… Expand
  39. Shely
    Sep 5, 2023
    5
    Quantum Break proved to me that it is completly an action game. Can I play second? I do not think so. Do I regret playing? No way. did i have fun? I can easily say yes. Bored? no. I felt very comfortable playing the game. I can say that I spent 5 6 hours with pleasure hitting and breaking without any contraction or tension. If you’re a fan of action style, I’d say it’s worth playing. IfQuantum Break proved to me that it is completly an action game. Can I play second? I do not think so. Do I regret playing? No way. did i have fun? I can easily say yes. Bored? no. I felt very comfortable playing the game. I can say that I spent 5 6 hours with pleasure hitting and breaking without any contraction or tension. If you’re a fan of action style, I’d say it’s worth playing. If you have a better option and are going to try Quantum Break to see if I like the action genre, I’d say stay away.

    for full review: https://medium.com/@shelyshelly20/quantum-break-4d76e5a20d1e    … Expand
  40. 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
  41. 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.
  42. Newfr
    Apr 13, 2016
    4
    I'll not go into technical details, i'm not an expert here. But for me graphics looked too blurry and grained. Maybe that because they wanted it to look like TV series or maybe it just not great. Anyway i found it not that great at all.
    But most thing i hate about this game is story. It's so awful. Not going into details, but i felt like i played most egocentric, stupid and self-righteous    I'll not go into technical details, i'm not an expert here. But for me graphics looked too blurry and grained. Maybe that because they wanted it to look like TV series or maybe it just not great. Anyway i found it not that great at all.
    But most thing i hate about this game is story. It's so awful. Not going into details, but i felt like i played most egocentric, stupid and self-righteous main hero in history of computer games. While main "villain" was more like normal hero - trying to save humanity while making some sacrifices. WTF Remedy?! I thought Max Payne 2 had an awful story but this... this is much worse. After scene with Liam in Monarch Tower i just like "f*ck, i'm done. I can't play any more like this peace of **** And all this **** just to find that Jack had absolutely no plan at all from the very beginning. If you don't count "i'll go back in time and ask my brother what to do" as a solid plan to save the world.
    Plus all this pseudo science sh*t. Just go with elves and dragons if you can't think of something even remotely coherent. So believe me, story is awful and had a lot of loose ends. Maybe they will be explained if you choose other ways on time crossroads but no sane person will do multiple walkthroughs just for that (remember there is no saves here).
    So i don't recommend this game for it story and other elements are sub par as well - as a TPS resent Rise of the Tomb Rider is a better game and this TV series wannabe elements just meh.    … Expand
  43. Cometer
    Apr 12, 2016
    4
    Unbelievable. First of all, I played this game on the Xbox One and loved it. But on the Xbox One you can actually forget the game is running on a piece of hardware and just enjoy the experience. Perhaps this is Microsoft way of pushing PC gamers to consoles. I don't know. The one thing I know is that there is simply no way this game could have passed quality control on PC. I've played betaUnbelievable. First of all, I played this game on the Xbox One and loved it. But on the Xbox One you can actually forget the game is running on a piece of hardware and just enjoy the experience. Perhaps this is Microsoft way of pushing PC gamers to consoles. I don't know. The one thing I know is that there is simply no way this game could have passed quality control on PC. I've played beta tests that are more "stable" than this. Anyway. I give a 4 for one reason. The game from the perspective of someone that enjoys games with cinematic storytelling is good. Not the best but a decent 8. But as AAA games require computers and consoles to run, we can't simply review how "good" the story is. No matter how groundbreaking a game may be, if it simply doesn't run well, it.....SUCKS. So there you have it. Thankfully I got the game for free with console version (somehow I felt Microsoft was going to use my PC for beta testing UWP). Had I payed $60 for THIS, I think I would be so upset that the score of this review would probably be a "1". Only one other game in recently memory managed to mess things up as bad as this. AC Unity. And back then I pre-ordered the freaking Collectors edition. I have to thank Ubi for making me consider my buying options carefully. If it wasn't for them, I would probably had bought Quantum Break on PC thinking it would just "run fine". Thinking. No way Microsoft is going to screw up the release of their exclusive in their Windows 10 platform. uff.… Expand
  44. 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
  45. 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.
  46. Kamarr
    Apr 13, 2016
    4
    Stay away from the PC version its garbage. You've been warned! ;o When a company asks for everyone to pre-order so they can get special crap for the game or along with the game you know that it will have a bad apple somewhere. Now that being said the Console versions are ok but I'd recommend to just rent it do not buy this game heavily not worth the purchase. I'd put up this port right upStay away from the PC version its garbage. You've been warned! ;o When a company asks for everyone to pre-order so they can get special crap for the game or along with the game you know that it will have a bad apple somewhere. Now that being said the Console versions are ok but I'd recommend to just rent it do not buy this game heavily not worth the purchase. I'd put up this port right up there with that **** Batman game least WB were willing to give everyone there money back for them **** up. Where is our refunds.....… Expand
  47. Akk3d1s
    Apr 10, 2020
    4
    Terrible, terrible gameplay...This had so much potential but just got utterly butchered.
  48. 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
  49. Antioch
    Apr 9, 2016
    4
    The game is far from optimised, I run a OC i7 4770K with 16GB RAM and a 6GB VRAM Titan Black and the game is installed on an SSD, this rig should be more than enough to run this game at 1080p/ultra at 60fps. I'm reaching 45fps tops with stutters. And yes the dynamic resolution upscaled from 720, just like the potatobox one is here along with the motionblur and no option to turn it off.
    In    The game is far from optimised, I run a OC i7 4770K with 16GB RAM and a 6GB VRAM Titan Black and the game is installed on an SSD, this rig should be more than enough to run this game at 1080p/ultra at 60fps. I'm reaching 45fps tops with stutters. And yes the dynamic resolution upscaled from 720, just like the potatobox one is here along with the motionblur and no option to turn it off.
    In fact a whole lot of standard pc options are gone and the whole UWP system prevents the community or yourself to remedy (no pun intended) alot of it's faults.
    If Microsoft is serious about getting back into pc gaming, they need to get their act together. This is an unacceptable pc port.
    As for the game itself it is mediocre at best. You spend about a third of the time doing the standard console actiongame slow walk looking at things and talking, a third watching live action cutscenes and a third using some powers and shooting the same 5 or so different enemies the entire game. The Powers you have are cool but are pretty similar to eachother and the action turns bland pretty fast. You do have some choices to make but none of them matter in the end. Add to that the bland and boring gameplay, a replay is out of the question.
    If you really want to see the cutscenes from the other choice you are better off watching it on youtube than playing through this game again.
    The story is not bad but it's pretty "meh".
    As for any good words about this game all I can say is the game does have some nice lighting and it looks pretty good despite an upscaled 720p (although not as good as it could), also the acting is top notch.
    It's definately not a buy imo at full price.    … Expand
  50. 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
  51. 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.
  52. 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
  53. 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
  54. 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
  55. 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.
  56. 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.
  57. theo_the_greek
    May 8, 2016
    3
    Do you want a game that is more broken on PC than Watch Dogs and shorter than The Order: 1886? Then, this is the game for you! A very ambitious title with interesting tech, but you play so little. Most of the time you are watching cutscenes or episodes. Even when you are playing, a lot of it is just walking and pressing X to open doors. The actual fights are interesting, but they are soDo you want a game that is more broken on PC than Watch Dogs and shorter than The Order: 1886? Then, this is the game for you! A very ambitious title with interesting tech, but you play so little. Most of the time you are watching cutscenes or episodes. Even when you are playing, a lot of it is just walking and pressing X to open doors. The actual fights are interesting, but they are so few and far apart that you never get engaged. After finishing the game, I still didn't get the plot. If you want to understand it, you better stop and read all the emails on random screens in the game (as if this game wasn't making you sit and passively look at stuff enough already). In the final boss fight, no matter how many times you lost, you had to watch the same unskippable cutscene again and again and again and again. I was about to throw the controller at the screen at that point from frustration after hearing the same unskippable dialogue for the 10th time. This game doesn't know if it wants to be a movie, an actual game or a novel (all the emails you have to read). It ends up being a short, scrambled mess that could have been much more. Also, the PC port was inexcusably poor. Unless you have a 980ti (or something like that) and an SSD, you can forget smooth fps and expect endless stuttering and even freezing. I wish they'd never released it on PC. F*** this game.… Expand
  58. 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
  59. Avadon
    Apr 6, 2016
    2
    Performance is a trainwreck. Where both trains carry nuclear warheads. Choppy and horrible on my 4790k, gtx 980. Seems like Remedy developed this on workstations with the new Tesla P100, and then just uploaded it to the Windows Store. I think they skipped a step.
  60. Danceswithsheep
    Apr 9, 2016
    2
    Terrible port, Totally messed up FPS model that you can't fix because it's locked into the UWL model. I think they are embarrassed that gamers can do a better job optomising this than the programmers is UWL locks you out. Horrible price for this too.
  61. Kharoe
    Apr 7, 2016
    2
    Unplayable with 970 and i5 4690k (10-15 frame drop in 1080p and medium settings).
    Thank you microsoft, you'll never see my money.
    Don't buy this game, waste of money.
  62. Maddness
    Apr 5, 2016
    2
    Runs like complete dog slob on my 970 system.
    Never thought i would be this dissapointed with Remedy to be honest.

    Also, Microsoft charges more for the pc version?? Heck, they give it away for free on pc if you get the Xbox version. Jeez, they dont even try and hide it anymore.

    2 out of 10, because pretty graphics. Avoid.
  63. 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
  64. 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.
  65. djnicey
    Apr 5, 2016
    1
    The PC version runs incredibly slowly, the framerate is terrible. Its also twice as expensive as most games at launch, £50 from the windows store when usually games I buy at release are £25-26. This should be recalled until its fixed, what a rip off.

    Sssllllooowwwww juddery framerates are unacceptable on a high end PC.
  66. 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.
  67. 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
  68. bizkithead
    May 8, 2016
    1
    Terrible port. Period. This game can't be fixed i guess. I tried my best to stay positive, waited for the patch and the erros are still there. My rig is FINE and should handle this game easily. I bought it for the sake of supporting new game ideas. It failed but i'm still passionate and i hope the game industry put it's sh*t together anytime soon. This generation was a pure disaster.
  69. v3cktt0r
    Apr 6, 2016
    1
    bad, bad port, to much system requirements and are the same graphics from xbox one, this game needs a patch to fix all of these problems, not recommended until remedy fix those problems.
  70. NihiRagnarK
    Apr 7, 2016
    1
    || GTX 970 + i7-4790 + 16GB RAM ||

    I have completed all the achievements on WIN10 by now. I can assure you that this PC gameplay experience is so far the worst for me these few years. The graph is filled with white particles and looks vague on 1080p. No matter which quality I choose, it is always a slide show. Especially annoying when encounter some hard fights like the final    || GTX 970 + i7-4790 + 16GB RAM ||

    I have completed all the achievements on WIN10 by now.

    I can assure you that this PC gameplay experience is so far the worst for me these few years.

    The graph is filled with white particles and looks vague on 1080p.
    No matter which quality I choose, it is always a slide show. Especially annoying when encounter some hard fights like the final boss and fail because of the UN-SMOOTH control    … Expand
  71. MaddysonGovnoed
    Apr 10, 2016
    1
    Very Bad Port !!! Remedy lazy, very high price for the PC game !!! Don t buy it !!! Terrible attitude of developers to PC users !!! Think for yourself decide for yourself !!!!
  72. 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.
  73. 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.
  74. 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?
  75. vova22379
    Jan 9, 2022
    1
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  76. 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
  77. hwextreme
    Apr 5, 2016
    0
    Why do Microsoft want to kill PC gaming whilst keep reporting to the press that they love PC gaming and want to improve and support it.
    UWP is a terrible idea for Games. No full screen, no crossfire / SLI, no VSYNC. Poor FPS, with no optimisations and no modding.
    Seriously just allow the developer to release the game to steam as a fully optimised game and stop this this Windows store    Why do Microsoft want to kill PC gaming whilst keep reporting to the press that they love PC gaming and want to improve and support it.
    UWP is a terrible idea for Games. No full screen, no crossfire / SLI, no VSYNC. Poor FPS, with no optimisations and no modding.
    Seriously just allow the developer to release the game to steam as a fully optimised game and stop this this Windows store rubbish. You are not apple, and apple are no longer apple without Jobs.. Closed ecosystems are not what we want.    … Expand
  78. SKELETOR420
    May 5, 2016
    0
    Another botched launch under the Microsoft Games banner! Way-hey! And this one didn't even have multiplayer for them to mess up! 0/10. What's most heartbreaking is that Remedy were always good technically. Is it UWP messing it up or MS Store maybe? Regardless, MESS.
  79. Temannopellaria
    Apr 6, 2016
    0
    Excellent porting,copy & paste.
    In my system,i7 6700k,16 gb ram,gtx 980 ti i can look a stutter fest in 1080p.......
    70 euros for this **** and unplayable.
    Gfwl 2 has arrived.
    Sorry for my bad english.:(
  80. m0rb
    Apr 15, 2016
    0
    Windows 10 required... so, because I was very interested in the game and I liked the concept, I downloaded my "free" windows 10, because I wanted to install it, as a secondary OS...
    not possible, because, "microsoft".
    so, I had to put Windows 10 on a separate HDD, in order to have a kind of dual OS, only I have to select which drive to boot with via BIOS... so, tried out this game, it    Windows 10 required... so, because I was very interested in the game and I liked the concept, I downloaded my "free" windows 10, because I wanted to install it, as a secondary OS...
    not possible, because, "microsoft".
    so, I had to put Windows 10 on a separate HDD, in order to have a kind of dual OS, only I have to select which drive to boot with via BIOS...
    so, tried out this game, it runs like pure and utter **** graphics at 720p, running at 30 fps? in 2016, REALLY?!

    in that case, microsoft can (and will have to) KISS my A§$!
    ultimately, I immediately deleted the game, as well as Windows 10 from either of my drives. nobody needs this crap and especially we "gamers" should NOT stand for this ****!

    very badly optimized games are one thing, but making games on PC, that can't play @ 60 fps and in 720p?! not cool... but, when it comes to BLOCKING users from modifying the games, that they have bought, my patience with that company comes to an abrupt end!
    screw this! screw that game, screw Windows 10 and **** Microsoft, for pulling this BULL$HIT off with us!
    they are still treating PC gamers, as if we were dumb little kids!
    sure, they pull this off with console gamers and though that's wrong, too, they let microsoft gladly do it to them! with PC gamers, though, we do not take kindly to this sort of thing!

    so, from me, that is a ZERO! DO NOT BUY! DO NOT EVEN PIRATE!    … Expand
  81. Rabidprimate
    Apr 17, 2016
    0
    0/10 for ham fisted intel trying to force people to buy win 10. Super anti consumer action and they deserve to be punished for it. I might try it if they make it available to all customers but until then they can get the big f you.
  82. Vadim1989
    Apr 20, 2016
    0
    Bored, average action sequences become a real slog once Remedy appears out of good ideas. Microsoft needs to look long and hard at how to make live-action TV episodes work in a game's framework, because this attempt is a total disaster.
  83. Pushistick
    Apr 20, 2016
    0
    Average corridor shooter with a few gimmicks. They should have just made a TV series rather than a game. moving around feels laboured, the shooting scenes are repetitive, the time break scenes are just corridors. Dissapointing game considering the amount of time the devs had.
  84. aquiles1990
    Apr 5, 2016
    0
    First My specs : 980 zotac Amp edition - i7 4930k 4.5ghz - 16gb ram gskill 2400mhz
    Hear me well : This is the one of the worst ports ever made in the history of pc gaming
    Arkham knight ? That game is a masterpiece comparing to this Stuttering - 720p upscale on 1080p- running the game at less than 20 fps in many places even using low - medium settings . I just buy it to prove the    First My specs : 980 zotac Amp edition - i7 4930k 4.5ghz - 16gb ram gskill 2400mhz
    Hear me well : This is the one of the worst ports ever made in the history of pc gaming
    Arkham knight ? That game is a masterpiece comparing to this

    Stuttering - 720p upscale on 1080p- running the game at less than 20 fps in many places even using low - medium settings . I just buy it to prove the reality about UWP . Yes : microsoft need to quick UWP and let win32 api the way it's . Don't ever buy anything from the store . If you support pc gaming boycoot this thing. I don't have words really . FRAUD AT IT BEST DEFINITION    … Expand
  85. 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...
  86. erichie
    Apr 28, 2016
    0
    Okay, where to start? For the first thing, my specs are 1100T, GTX 970, 16 GB RAM. I'm running Dark Souls 3 on highest settings, Tomb Raider on a mix of Ultra/High at 50FPS, and the Division on Ultra with 60 FPS. Quantum Break won't open, at all. The screen appears for two seconds and than disappears. I reviewed the game on Windows Store. Two weeks later I went to update my reviewOkay, where to start? For the first thing, my specs are 1100T, GTX 970, 16 GB RAM. I'm running Dark Souls 3 on highest settings, Tomb Raider on a mix of Ultra/High at 50FPS, and the Division on Ultra with 60 FPS. Quantum Break won't open, at all. The screen appears for two seconds and than disappears. I reviewed the game on Windows Store. Two weeks later I went to update my review saying the game still won't open, but I noticed my previous review was removed and I was getting this error "This app needs hardware your device does not have, hindering app performance. Rating and reviews have been turned off." So, yeah. Remedy screwed anyone who bought the game. The game doesn't even open 3 weeks after launch.… Expand
  87. Silent-kun
    Apr 7, 2016
    0
    Do not buy this game. I gnored all of the negative reviews thinking it couldn't be that bad. I wa very wrong. I have a I5 4690k OC'd to 4.5GHz and a 980ti OC'd to 1500MHz and i cannot do anything to prevent the hellish stutter, even turning the game down to low settings at 1080p and locking the framerate to 30 does not stop the game from being literally unplayable. It actually manages toDo not buy this game. I gnored all of the negative reviews thinking it couldn't be that bad. I wa very wrong. I have a I5 4690k OC'd to 4.5GHz and a 980ti OC'd to 1500MHz and i cannot do anything to prevent the hellish stutter, even turning the game down to low settings at 1080p and locking the framerate to 30 does not stop the game from being literally unplayable. It actually manages to give me motion sicknes. No 21:9 support whatsoever, fullscreen stretches the game to fill the space making everything distorted instead of just leaving the black borders. Even on ultra at 1440p, the game looks blurry and un-detailed. I suspect that the game renders at 720p and sumply upscales. I just got my refund and regret even waiting for the long download and install time.… Expand
  88. 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.
  89. Forlifestrager
    Apr 6, 2016
    0
    De los peores port que visto a pc en toda la generación aun peor que Batman o mortal kombat un asco completamente no lo compren... Es tirar el dinero
  90. Tjhjkhuk
    Apr 6, 2016
    0
    Lamentable port valiente por quería de compañía remedy malos fps encima el juego pura cinemática no son los gráficos que mostraron en su día downgrade terrible mal juego no tiren su dinero
  91. actinium
    Mar 18, 2021
    0
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  92. 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
  93. borastor
    Oct 30, 2020
    0
    the game is very nice but optimization is bad 10/8(story, graphics)
    but I recommend
  94. 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.
  95. 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.
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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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