A couple of days ago, MercurySteam launched the open beta phase for Raiders of the Broken Planet. However, and since the game releases in four days, we can safely assume that this is more like a demo and less than a ‘meaningful’ beta phase. As such, below you can find our first impressions of it, accompanied with a 15-minute gameplay video and some 4K screenshots.
Raiders of the Broken Planet is a 4 vs 1 cover-based tactical shooter game that focuses on close quarter shooting and melee combat, is heavily story driven and is able to be played as both an online and a single-player experience.
Now the good news here is that the game runs incredibly well on the PC platform. Our GTX980Ti was able to offer a constant 60fps experience in 4K with all its bells and whistles enabled, so it’s pretty safe to say that a lot of PC gamers will be able to enjoy MercurySteam’s latest title. Not only that, but the game looks great. There are some low-resolution textures here and there, however the game’s art design, lighting, colourful stages and detailed characters are a beauty to behold. The game could have easily been a graphical showcase if MercurySteam had not compromised the quality of the textures. Oh, and sadly there is no option to disable that annoying Chromatic Aberration effect that has been implemented.
However, and while Raiders of the Broken Planet performs extremely well on the PC, the game suffers from some ridiculous gameplay choices. For starters, there is no sprint or roll button. As such, most characters feel unnaturally ‘heavy’ and sluggish. Yes your character can sprint while pressing the directional keys, however this system does not simply work on a fast-paced shooter like Raiders of the Broken Planet. MercurySteam has also implemented an awful slide mechanic that is pretty much useless most of the times (instead of relying on traditional rolling mechanics). Add to this the mediocre jump mechanics and you’ve got yourself a game with very limited manoeuvring abilities. And this makes the game feel mediocre, especially when you want to take cover from enemies that are near you, or when you want to get closer to enemies in order to hit them with your melee attacks.
And perhaps this is the area that needs a lot of polish and re-work. The shooting mechanics are – for the most part – great (though I did not like the weapons of almost all characters apart from Harec’s), the game can appeal to both single-player and multi-player fans, voice acting is good, performance is fantastic, and controls feel fine. The sluggish character movement (or lack of mobility if you will), however, is what makes this game feel mediocre. And that’s a shame because Raiders of the Broken Planet appears to have a lot of potential.
But anyway, below you can find a video showing the first 15 minutes from the game, as well as some screenshots. For viewing purposes we’ve resized the images to 1080p. Those interested can download the 4K uncompressed images from here.
Enjoy!
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This is the DSOG i like, this game looks mildly interesting, want to try it
because they are covering something that hasn’t yet exploded in popularity and is something you clearly like vs the other articles they posted that you don’t?.
Because they’re covering something that hasn’t yet even surfaced for all i know, that’s why i said, I like, i mean, it’s a matter of opinions or tastes, ALSO, isn’t it? And yes, also something i like, and i think it’s worth of covering.
psss I’ll tell you a little secret, if you keep doing what you are doing, you’re only showing i’m right about you, even more blatantly than it already is 😉
What “hasn’t surfaced” exactly?.
Seems to me like it’s a tiny cult type game than anything totally never ever done before that warrants mass praise.
Yes it is, but when it’s coming from you, anyone else who has an opinion that doesn’t align with yours is utter tripe right?.
I’ll let you in on a secret
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No one cares. (well actually you do, but it’s not like that matters at this point).
This game hasn’t surfaced like at all, that’s why i was praising this kind of DSOG, and no, mass praise isn’t a good thing, more like the opposite.
Also, everyone is entitled to an opinion on everything, but not every opinion matter, and no, if you disagree with an opinion of mine and you give good reasons and points of that i might as well appreciate the critique and the disagreement.
So you’re the cult type, the ones that like the “uncool” things and despise anything that becomes popular with the bigger crowds?, because you describe it quite well.
No, by mass praise I was referring to fans expressing their enjoyment of playing said game. You cannot override theirs with your own and claims their praise or enjoyment is for nothing, that’s not how this world even begins to work.
Everyone is, but the other crowd’s opinion is certainly not “garbage” like the smaller cults love to believe.
That last part of yours is lie btw.
I’m no cult type, just appreciate very few good titles, but i also play much bigger and important stuff like bf1 for example. But depends, popularity very very often means the game meets basically anyone’s tastes, and to do that it needs to be a very simple game, with simple mechanics (for all to understand and to enjoy, mainly), so a very basic game with anything particular or peculiar an enthusiast would really appreciate. Of this game i like the art, and few other things, that’s why i said “mildly interesting” just will have to try this, but from the video i watched, doesn’t seem to have anything even slightly peculiar, except maybe the art, which isn’t anything revolutionary but surely something interesting, at least to me.
I won’t even try to override anything, more like i will ask them to tell me more about what they think of the game, other than fun, because, if fun, is the only thing you look for, in a videogame, then you’re looking at this world with very superficial eyes, feel free to, but it’s not really something one can argue with.
“Garbage” is a word i used often, because someone’s opinion is really garbage, i know for a fact they only play a game for the most futile thing (i know some), at that point it’s not even a matter of opinion, again, not trying to make anyone change his/her mind, just pointing out that, something they over appreciate, is just of very little importance. This comes from my better knowledge and experience on the videogame world, i mean, if there’s a guy who started playing few years ago, it’s obvious i’ve got a sharper eye, and higher standard for something i’ve been into for 15+ years, don’t you think?
Nah, it’s not a lie, you just need to build a well-founded critique, i might as well agree with you in the end, it all depends how good you’re able to analyze something i’ve said, i’m way far off perfection, so…
You’re not very good at breaking those walls of text.
” i’m way far off perfection, so.”
That could use some work and effort then.
See how you’re answering? You make no point, what does this even mean, you’re only answering because you feel you have to.
Two complete morons going back and forth, wrting thousands of words just to argue with a complete stranger they will never meet about… nothing really. Welcome to the internet.
Yeah man, you have no idea, this guy went on for like 100 posts, i was about to post everything on reddit and then he stopped. And i’ve never thought about doing something like that, but this, this was completely incredible.
I tried the SP beta and it’s pretty damn good. The game is gorgeous and the art design is really interesting.
I really want to give this one a try.
I been given access to the BETA for months now, and still haven’t tried the game once.
The hell were they thinking with the Parkinson cam during cutscenes?
Looks good. Indeed the gameplay mecanics are a turn off. DEV might rethink it.
This is fairly polished. Too late to rethink anything.
Yea you’re probably right
I was just about to ask if they’d made the game feel any less sluggish since I played the alpha test a while back. That’s a real damn shame. Ah well, back to Warframe it is…
Skipped past the cringe dialog as soon as I heard some silly accent and silly words. Watched about 1 minute total of “combat” and I’m out. Gameplay for toddlers. Another one goes down the drain, not even trying. I couldn’t tell you what the devs are trying to do here beyond aping other cover shooters with brain-dead enemies in general, and Warframe in particular. Is Warframe even successful? I guess it can’t be doing too badly or they wouldn’t add content to it after many years, huh… so here’s your trashy Warframe-like. Money, pls.
That guy on cover looks like Sol Badguy
Looks like a WarFrame wannabee to me.
horrible lame crap