MindsEye

Although MindsEye brings varied missions and entertaining situations to the action, thanks in part to solid acting, the final quality is below par. The frame rate is dramatic, the game has many bugs, the AI is stupid, there are many graphical glitches and we could go on and on. However, the most sad thing is that MindsEye has quite a lot of potential, but it simply does not live up to it because of its many shortcomings.

Unfinished, monotonous, and riddled with so many bugs and glitches that MindsEye has become more of a parody of GTA. What undoubtedly began as an ambitious project ultimately became a disastrous action-packed failure.

MindsEye is a broken, boring mess of a game that has somehow been allowed out in the world. It has little glimmers of something semi-entertaining in there with its cutscenes and story, but it’s bogged down by a vapid large scale map that is at odds with its aggressively linear campaign, and padded out with a dull repetitive gameplay loop that is nothing short of archaic.

MindsEye feels like a massive missed opportunity: technically a mess, creatively lost. Even with future patches, there's little left to get excited about.

There’s palpable ambition fueling MindsEye, but I can feel where it likely clashed with business decisions that forced the project out of the oven prematurely. It’s the kind of game that you can only pity, holding some empathy for the artists watching an unrealized dream tumble away like a self-driving truck down a crater. No chef wants to serve you uncooked beef.