Syberia 3

Technical issues aside, we've really enjoyed Syberia 3, thanks to its good story, memorable characters, clever puzzles and an outstanding art direction.

Syberia 3 may have some touching moments and interesting characters, as well as puzzles consistent with the game's lore, but questionable gameplay choices, technical issues and a weak ending that doesn't offer any conclusion, leave a lot to be desired.

Fans of the previous 2 games may have enough love banked for the series to carry them through this release. For anyone else I would suggest finding a different adventure game.

A sloppy sequel to a great game marred with decade-old problems.

Syberia 3 is appealing to the fans of this IP, but newcomers will be shocked by the technical issues that makes the game unimmersive and quite frankly, difficult to play with those awful controls.

Quotation forthcoming.

Syberia 3 arrived too early. It's an adventure with a soul that wants to share a great story with us all. So why, oh why, do I get so angry with this game? I played it, I was amazed, I was furious, I forgave it, and then I played it again. Hopefully some serious patches will fix the most pressing issues and the game will become great again.

Technically Syberia 3 is pretty bad, but that's something we can easily put aside. The real problem of Syberia 3 is that - after a promising start - it gets stuck between nostalgia and the inability to truly renovate itself.

Syberia 3 tries too hard to be a worthy new chapter in Kate Walker’s series, but it’s frustrating and disappointingly flawed.

Even if you disregard the substandard graphics, the glitches, the stuttering, the poor performance and the terrible controlling through a “modernized” disastrous movement system, it is difficult to disregard that the plot carries no substance at all, with no connection to the past, no goal real pushing you forward and no ending. Syberia ended 13 years ago and this new sequel, while it carries some moments of magic, is too poorly executed to stand next to the large name it carries.

Syberia 3 is filled with point and click clichés, and it does so in a very uninspired, nonchalant way. The controls are bad, the dialogue is meh and the repetitiveness of the quests is even worse. The one thing we really enjoy is the setting.

There’ll always be a time and a place for a game like Syberia 3. While not all of the tradition of its previous mid-2000 ventures have translated well into the modern age, Kate Walker’s third outing in this subtly steampunk universe, if sporting a few technical faults and some fairly sub-par voice acting, holds up well enough in its gameplay to warrant a playthrough. Microïds may not be looking to radically shift the formula from what came before all those years ago and while at points its controls clearly show an unpleasant age to itself, the charm of its aesthetic not to mention the design of puzzles in parts keeps Syberia 3 firmly away from the gated-off litter of games often referred to as sequels we never asked for. There may not be as huge or as lucrative a demand here, but the adventure undertaken — after fourteen years of wait for some — is a satisfactory but modest one all the same.

Syberia 3 is a game to avoid. It has no redeeming qualities — whether you’re a fan of the series or not — and it’s not worth anything close to its bloated retail price. Just stay away, please, so Microids doesn’t get any ideas about subjecting us to a Syberia 4 (or maybe IV, since they seem to be alternating their numbering scheme).