Daymare: 1998

 PlayStation 4
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 113 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 21 out of 113
  3. Negative: 26 out of 113
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  1. mrviolentj
    May 15, 2020
    2
    This is without doubt the most annoying, frustrating broken game I have played in a very long time, from a hospital thats full of trees, walls and roofs that disappear, enemies that disappear when you line up a shot, to one's that appear from nowhere and kill you.it would be fine if it was just "hard" but it's a broken mess, awful voice acting, shoddy story there's simply nothing I canThis is without doubt the most annoying, frustrating broken game I have played in a very long time, from a hospital thats full of trees, walls and roofs that disappear, enemies that disappear when you line up a shot, to one's that appear from nowhere and kill you.it would be fine if it was just "hard" but it's a broken mess, awful voice acting, shoddy story there's simply nothing I can recommend about this game at all.… Expand
  2. Covidiocracy
    May 8, 2020
    4
    Chapter 5 is entitled "Zero Sum Game" - and that is patently accurate to this game.

    Beautiful level designs and well detailed terrains. Great Easter Egg homages hidden throughout the levels. The city streets looks better than even most Resident Evil or Silent Hill games. Too bad the story is absurdly incoherent, the characters are entirely unlikable and baffling in motive, and the weapon    Chapter 5 is entitled "Zero Sum Game" - and that is patently accurate to this game.

    Beautiful level designs and well detailed terrains. Great Easter Egg homages hidden throughout the levels. The city streets looks better than even most Resident Evil or Silent Hill games.

    Too bad the story is absurdly incoherent, the characters are entirely unlikable and baffling in motive, and the weapon ammo system is frustrating beyond belief. Whoever said video games need to be more realistic with how ammo is managed (clips, etc.) never played this game. Most of the consumable items (stamina refills, mental drops) are completely pointless and a waste of space in an unnecessarily strict item management system. The healing item mixing system is also baffling in how overly complicated it is. Dropping off items in the "storage box" requires you to have binoculars to read what items you are even choosing. Even switching weapons is a long, drawn out process which frustrayes the player and opens them to slow attackers. The main character hunts down military guys even though his wife was murdered by a monster. If you lost your loved one to a zombie in the Zombie Apocalypse, would you go on a tear of vengeance searching a city WITH AN AERIAL GAS CONTAMINANT wafting through the streets just to search for the specific monster which killed her, and then forget and start hunting down random military survivors? Why does the park service employ a government employee to singlehandedly watch for forest fires, lost aircrafts, etc. when he has a severe psychological disorder which constantly creates severe hallucinations? I wonder how many false sightings he called in because he forgot his meds (again)...

    No characters make sense, or have personalities worth noting. The hit detection is garbage. The item management system is frustrating for no reason. The story is utter rubbish. This game absolutely wasted the level and background designers' hard work and beautiful atmosphere.    … Expand
  3. KhalistaMundi
    May 20, 2020
    1
    my gosh...with these fake reviews I just died!!!!!
    anyway folks,a complete piece of trash, no-sense plot, terrifying and clunky controls, graphics at its worse,a sad combination of plagiarism and anonymous stuff with the worse characterization ever,without speaking about the enemies and protagonists' models,and animations, that look all the same. And it also costs a lot for this complete    my gosh...with these fake reviews I just died!!!!!
    anyway folks,a complete piece of trash, no-sense plot, terrifying and clunky controls, graphics at its worse,a sad combination of plagiarism and anonymous stuff with the worse characterization ever,without speaking about the enemies and protagonists' models,and animations, that look all the same. And it also costs a lot for this complete buggy crap of just 3/4 hours!

    +++THE GOOD+++
    +nicle title

    ---THE BAD---
    -Terrible graphics, animations, models, design, face expressions
    -It's a dishonest plagiarism
    -story feels anonymous and flat as the less inspiring RESIDENT EEVIL
    -Some of the worse gameplay controls in a survival horror game, the bullets inventory is ****
    -Absolutely uncharming and flat characters and enemies design and characterization
    -39$ for a shiiit like this and black edition is just just terrible!
    -combination of music and sfx at its worse
    -some of the funniest bugs and glitches ever that few times shutdown the game too.
    -voice acting...i've chills, tragically ugly!!!
    -a waste of time and money!!!!!

    do not make games,change job folks!    … Expand
  4. deplorable
    May 6, 2020
    2
    Controls are terrible, let's explain it simply you have to load individual bullets into each magazine before you can use the magazines. Even then if you fast reload instead of slow you lose the magazines so must pick them back up manually.

    The inventory system is about as manageable as a brick, you have different tabs you can use in here but since the game isn't paused when you use it,    Controls are terrible, let's explain it simply you have to load individual bullets into each magazine before you can use the magazines. Even then if you fast reload instead of slow you lose the magazines so must pick them back up manually.

    The inventory system is about as manageable as a brick, you have different tabs you can use in here but since the game isn't paused when you use it, you gotta decide when to use it. Two of the tabs are useless - map and collection of stuff. Never use those, the place isn't a maze and it's hardly worth the effort to bring up the map. Actually the third tab health is useless too, it tries to be metal gear solid 3 but you'll just be using the quick heal button. So you have one tab that you'll use out of four. Nicely done.

    Be glad this team didn't do resident evil 2 remake. Yes they are small, but that's no excuse to make you pay £30 for a game barely worth £10. The dialogue is terrible, the story is forgettable and the shooting is ugh. Your character is also prone to bugging out when moving or interacting with things (hit R2 to get out of this) seriously my character got stuck in a locker before he even fired a shot.

    Graphics are sub par, music forgettable and the dialogue is spoken as if they're 12 year olds doing a school play. They try to borrow so many ideas from the resident evil series, they forget what it was all about.

    Don't buy, don't rent, just forget this game exists and move on.    … Expand
  5. jduadom91
    May 1, 2020
    2
    Parece un juego de la ps2. Es un quiero y no puedo y jugablamente no aguanta 2 asaltos a los remakes del Resident Evil. Nada recomendable.
  6. neilmagic
    Aug 7, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pure garbage fire! I've just spent the last hour attempting to complete the last boss section thinking, surely past the clunky, glitchy, badly designed, awful controls I would be able to complete the section AS I'M PLAYING ON EASY! No, there's always something that glitches out and the boss kills me in one hit. The elevator video playing whilst the boss is running towards you and when the camera flashes back I'm on the floor dead is just unacceptable! The normal enemies holding onto you and sometimes pressing X does nothing so you have to watch your character slowly die for a reload because the game hasn't been properly tested! The last straw was when shot a canister dead on and knocked down the boss, ran past him then his instant death animation suddenly plays and i'm dead, AGAIN!

    A truly awful way to end my dedicated perseverance due to this game having led the path of what I feel is one of the greatest genres of game, I stuck with it's clunkyness though out, yet to be totally insulted at the end just due to sheer incompetency gives this game it's well deserved ZERO out of 10! Simply AWFUL!    … Expand
  7. Ivan1989
    Jun 18, 2021
    4
    Daymare 1998 is one of those games that once you finish it, you think to yourself, what the hell were they thinking? Daymare 1998 is a game originally started as a fan made Resident Evil 2 remake, which eventually sorted turned into its own game after capcom decided to do a remake of Resident evil 2. As for Daymare 1998, the game is bad, the game has poor story telling and development, itsDaymare 1998 is one of those games that once you finish it, you think to yourself, what the hell were they thinking? Daymare 1998 is a game originally started as a fan made Resident Evil 2 remake, which eventually sorted turned into its own game after capcom decided to do a remake of Resident evil 2. As for Daymare 1998, the game is bad, the game has poor story telling and development, its one of the worse story telling and development i have seen in a video game. The three characters you play as are unlikeable and their facial models are pretty bad. The gameplay has some deal of competence, however due to bad performance optimization, the game suffers from serious frame drops and even input controller laggg, which simply is unacceptable. The environmental models and textures are well done, so the developers do deserve some props for that. Sound is fairly good too, though the mp5 sounds horrible when fired. Voice acting was atrocious, im not even going to get into awful dialogue. The final chapter of game really some's up how bad this game is, you face off with the final boss multiple times. The final boss AI is completely braindead and can even break entirely, causing the creature to grind to a complete halt. Glitches and clippings through doors and walls plague this game and sometimes there's weird physics, where the neck of a zombie can grow and begin to wobble in strange manner, never seen anything like this before. And the Puzzles, in particular the very first one is horrible and frustrating. Everything besides environmental design and sound is truly horrible. I don't understand why so many gamers are giving this game a pass, it was made by an Indy team of 10 people, that's more than allot of other Indi titles. Highly not recommended, 4/10.… Expand
  8. Dronewolf
    Aug 1, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Whoever says this game deserves a 10 out of 10 is absolutely deluded. This game deserves a 5 at most. I persevered and was always close to just snapping the disc. The game is not exactly terrible, but it's not fantastic. I understand it was made with old school survival horror fans in mind and it would have worked if they just made it a pure Resident Evil clone.

    Now, I see people say the story is generic, but then with it being a zombie game, there's not really a lot of room for innovative story, so I can forgive that. I can also forgive the bad voice acting, having put up with it in past, similar games, it's not really a game killer for me, so again, I can forgive that.

    What I get from this game is like it's a cross between Resident Evil, F.E.A.R and Heavy Rain, so as I stated above, it does try to stand out story and gameplay wise. But the gameplay is just bad. The aiming when on manual isn't too bad, but someone like me who is unsteady and not very accurate, I tend to use aim assist (yes, you can laugh at my lack of skills ;) ), but it doesn't work. Well, it does. And it doesn't. it locks on to an enemy, but only on the body, you can't cycle upwards to the head, nor can you auto lock on to the head and once it's locked onto the body, it's very difficult to move the crosshair up to the head without putting the gun down as it's like a magnet to the body. You waste bullets sometimes as the stumbling animation of the zombies is that long, you sometimes can't make out if the zombie is dead or just recoiling and ammo can be scarce and health items can be scarcer, I was low on health and all I had or could find was stamina replenishing items.

    Oh, and the reloading can be tedious and sometimes was the reason why I died. The shotgun and magnum reload fine, but when it comes to the handgun, for some reason, you have manually reload in the inventory screen, which is kind of like a Dark Souls inventory where you can still get attacked when cycling through it for health items or ammo. When you reload it, you drop the magazine and have to pick it up again, no idea why they thought this was a good idea.

    The tabs on the inventory screen are just horrible, the map is completely useless (And it's displayed in portrait mode. WTF)

    The hallucinations were straight out of F.E.A.R. It's not a bad thing, but enemies you hallucinate (Which, to be fair, you have no idea which enemies are hallucinations or not) can hurt you, so you have to waste ammo on an enemy that isn't really there, rather than just fizzling out or whatever if it grabs you. I've had enemies hit me through the geography, not registering a shot to the head and during one part of the game where you are hallucinating, the character stops hallucinating and there is a big zombie stood right next to me with no warning with another one just appearing at the other side.

    Melee attacking is the worst thing in the world as while you swing to pistol whip enemies, they latch onto you and drain your health. They may as well have not put melee attacking in this game. And there is a trophy which encourages you to melee attack a certain enemy, but doing so is an instant death to your character. Bit of a troll move when there is also trophy for finishing the game without dying.

    Some files you pick up just have a website address on them. I assume the developers have hidden files and information on the websites they put on the in game files? I never checked anyway as I was busy playing the game. I mean, do you want people to play your game or trawl through your website, Invader Studios?

    The only likeable character is Sam, only because he looks exactly like Idris Elba on the box art (And no, Idris was in no way a part of the development process of this game. I wonder if he knows) and I'm a fan of that guy. The others are just massive jerks.

    It's nice to see references to things like X-Files, Die Hard, Resident Evil, IT, 2001: A Space Odyssey to name a few, but I think Invader Studios should have spent more time making the game good, than worrying about what pop culture reference to put in certain parts of the game.

    Call me nitpicky and harsh, but that is how I feel about the game. The graphics are alright for a small studio, but it just seems to lack that polish. Personally, it's a not a game I'll go back to and IF they make a sequel I may check it out. In my opinion, this game will probably appeal to hardcore survival horror fans, I get heavy RE2 vibes, but just remember it's not or will it ever come close to RE2. And lastly, the game is not worth the £35 asking price. I'd say more £15-20 at a push.

    End communication.    … Expand
  9. HipHopHead911
    May 27, 2021
    2
    I would advise anyone who is considering buying this game because it give them Resident Evil vibes, DO NOT! This game is so bad to me it’s unplayable. Let’s me go ahead and tell y’all my thoughts and overall experience with this game. First off there’s two types of modes to choose from, from the start of the game classic and modern. Classic is considered “the way the game was intended toI would advise anyone who is considering buying this game because it give them Resident Evil vibes, DO NOT! This game is so bad to me it’s unplayable. Let’s me go ahead and tell y’all my thoughts and overall experience with this game. First off there’s two types of modes to choose from, from the start of the game classic and modern. Classic is considered “the way the game was intended to be played by the dev team”. Whereas modern is more in lack of better words more modern to current survival horror games. I of course choose classic because it’s what anyone with common sense that’s a gamer would choose. Especially if it’s recommended by the dev team. So the game graphically looks like a dog **** than another dog ate that dog **** threw up and another dog ate that ****ty throw up. It literally looks like a PS2/PS3 game. It controls so slow and wonky and janky its almost comical. Puzzles to the game are complete trash. The reloading in “classic mode” might be my biggest wtf is this idiotic decision by the devs. You have ammo and you have clips and you can have multiple clips you can throw ammo into and you can either press quite to do a quick reload but you drop your clip but if you hold square you just reload like you normally would in any game. Same applies for using meds to heal/buff yourself. I read in modern mode the reloading is different and more like regular games that don’t have a dumb reload system.It’s just a very idiotic decision by the dev team, again to me. The enemy designs look terrible the acting is completely horrendous. My first three hours of the game and I deleted it off my console and won’t touch it again. And I was playing on my PS5 to and it still ran badly. Why I deleted it you ask? Well because after three hours into the game I got to a point where your suppose to go outside but ll the security doors drop and your locked in to fight off hordes of zombies until they are open again and your free to go. So I end up getting killed. It’s fine you die you start over understandable not even mad I died. So the game loads up tells me press X I do and when I load back up in the game I **** you not the games literally looking like a dev team is in the working on it as we speak. No walls no floor, nothing but the security gates are visible and that’s it. Again I die on purpose because it glitched and I didn’t want to play it like that so load back up in the game. Things resume to normal and I jump back in I come close to beating the section but than I die, cool no biggie trial and error right? Wrong different error occurs this time around and it literally loads me up maybe ten minutes from the beginning of the game. Look at my objectives and literally it’s like I’m starting all over. It glitched so hard that it told me sorry start over from the start again. Complete waste of my 14 bucks I spent buying it on Amazon. I read somewhere someone said this is the poor mans resident evil. Nope it’s not even that this **** isn’t even Aldi brand if there is something cheaper than Wish than thats what this is. I feel bad saying all this because I know devs worked hard but man they didn’t work hard enough to save this monstrosity of a poop shoot game. Funny thing I looked at all the reviews prior and saw all the negative stuff about the still and still choose to buy it and give it a try. Only reason I’m giving it a two is because it has reminiscent moments of resident evil vibes. But I wouldn’t recommend anyone playing this trash broken glitchy janky game. And mind you I’m playing this now in may 2021. They have had one or two years since release to patch up and fix as much as they can and still it played like crap and looked like crap. I’m sorry Daymare 1998 but you should be brought behind the shed and put to bed. How y’all are making a sequel/prequel is beyond me. Hopefully you learn from your massive and many mistakes. But for now you lose a customer from trusting or buying your **** If you wanna have a good laugh get high as **** off some weed or drunk off some alcohol and play this maybe than it’ll be worth the $. But once you sober up you’ll be kicking yourself in the head. Describe Daymare 1998 in one word for how the game is......TRASH.… Expand
  10. GamesTranslator
    Aug 5, 2020
    4
    Disclaimer: I'm a huge fan of the horror genre since the 1980s.

    With all the hype and a very promising premise, this game could have been an immediate classic – however, it only manages to be a Resident Evil franchise gone bad. There are some cool homages to the 1990s (like the funny movie posters and the DeLorean's from "Back to the Future") and some tongue-in-cheek humor    Disclaimer: I'm a huge fan of the horror genre since the 1980s.

    With all the hype and a very promising premise, this game could have been an immediate classic – however, it only manages to be a Resident Evil franchise gone bad.

    There are some cool homages to the 1990s (like the funny movie posters and the DeLorean's from "Back to the Future") and some tongue-in-cheek humor (nonetheless, the inclusion of the developers studios in the game might be a bit overboard).

    On the downside, a very unpolished look that doesn't seem worthy of a PS4 release, tedious and frustrating backtracking for items, a very clumsy user interface, excessive load times between sections and incredibly difficult boss battles turn you off, which might deter you from finishing the game. Also, the final level is a mess – it is surely the most frustrating sequence of gaming I've ever experienced on any platform.

    Conclusion: I know this was developed by an independent studio comprised of a very short team, but at the discounted 40 EUR price-point I got it, it just feels as a plain rip-off.    … Expand
  11. Spottyatbe5t
    Jan 5, 2023
    0
    I'm glad Resident Evil 2 was left to the professionals. As much as fans nitpick at Capcom, this title is as pretentious as it is undercooked. The second character runs like a **** I'm sorry for using that word but there is no better way to describe it. Why would you put this in the game? It's just silly. I stopped playing after getting to the parking lot because I could see that this gameI'm glad Resident Evil 2 was left to the professionals. As much as fans nitpick at Capcom, this title is as pretentious as it is undercooked. The second character runs like a **** I'm sorry for using that word but there is no better way to describe it. Why would you put this in the game? It's just silly. I stopped playing after getting to the parking lot because I could see that this game was just going to be a joke. This is coming from someone who is desperate for a new game to play right now. That being said I don't think that I alone could make a game like this by myself so to all the people who got together to make it: congratulations...you have made something at least. I'm very glad I got this game for free and didn't end up paying for it.… Expand

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 28
  3. Negative: 10 out of 28
  1. Finger Guns
    Aug 10, 2020
    30
    Whilst it’s not unplayable, it’s not far off. It’s trying too hard with its story scenario hopping all over the shop, coupled with an inventory management system that just doesn’t work in this kind of game.
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  2. Worth Playing
    Jul 1, 2020
    75
    Daymare: 1998 is a well-honed zombie experience that lacks originality but scratches the itch of those interested in the modern zombie game. It provides an alternate take on the traditional Resident Evil story, one that deals more harshly with the real-world consequences of investigating government science. Everything has a level of varnish, from environmental details to the documents that you read. Some of this must be counterbalanced with the fact that the game is a doppelganger. The well-crafted aesthetics also resemble the Resident Evil remakes, the Evil Within franchise, and countless others. Re-creation is many times easier than synthesis, allowing more time for attention to polish.
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  3. GameCritics
    Jun 22, 2020
    30
    I was hoping that Daymare: 1998‘s intentionally schlocky feel and cheesy voice acting it would result in an enjoyably old-school experience that Capcom’s re-releases don’t quite nail, but the technical issues, dull action and lack of fresh ideas mean it’s never more than a pale imitation of the real thing.
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