LEFT ALIVE sounded promising when Square Enix revealed it back in 2017. Developed by Toshifumi Nabeshima (Armored Core), Yoji Shinkawa (Metal Gear Solid) and Takayuki Yanase (Ghost in the Shell), LEFT ALIVE appeared – at least on paper – really interesting. However, the game has just been released on the PC and things are not looking good.
For starters, LEFT ALIVE looks like a PS3/Xbox 360 game. There are numerous low-resolution textures, 30fps fire effects, overall level design is underwhelming, a flat lighting system that is as old-gen-ish as it can possibly be has been used, and everything looks really, really dated. Seriously, it looks bad and, to be honest, we wouldn’t mind such a thing if the game was at least running within expectations on the PC platform.
Square Enix has provided us with a review code and you can find below some 4K/Ultra screenshots from it. As you can see, the game is unable to run with 60fps on NVIDIA’s most powerful graphics card, despite its old-gen visuals. I mean, LEFT ALIVE runs similarly to Anthem and Metro Exodus; two games that look way better and more advanced than it, and that says a lot in our opinion.
In just a day, LEFT ALIVE received “Very Negative” reviews on Steam, with users reporting underwhelming performance on a variety of PC configurations. So yeah, it’s not just us. The game has some serious optimization issues as it looks bad and runs below expectations.
But anyway, here are our 4K screenshots and stay tuned for our PC Performance Analysis article!
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Let’s see here…. SquareEnix. Yep, bonafide garbage. Business as usual.
They’ve put as much effort into this as they have patching Nier Automata, i.e. zero.
Omg. Like what in the actual fk. WHAT IS IT these days with devs/publishers releasing unfinished/garbage products. I’m fkin tired to be a gamer sometimes. The great games, you know the ones you spent 100+ hours on aren’t coming as often as they should.
Stop! Just stop!
Support the developers that deserve your support. Put your bucks in GOG, in great games that are not promoted like this game.
Stop paying attention to the next overhyped game. Invest in the developers willing to invest in you and know that there are so many games coming out every day.
Help the industry go the right way by supporting the ones you like, not by knocking the games you hate, you’re giving time to that game and in that, it is a victory for it (of sorts), as it takes you from games that you may enjoy.
AND go the twitter of this devs and say “Thank you! You helped me choose a game, I chose Valkyria Chronicles 4!”…. what? I didn’t say be peacefull 😀
LOL, whats wrong with square? The Silent Man and now this?
Excell is what is wrong with these companies.
BUT REMEMBER HITMAN AND SLEEPING DOGS ARE THE PROBLEM.
And Deus Ex.
Looks like a ps3 game and plays like a mediocre ps2 game
*slaps roof of fox engine* this bad boy will make you a professional dev in no time
When you put more money into protecting your game via DRM instead of making a decent or playable game.
PrIoRiTiEs!!!
bro what the fck is that in your avatar, i always wondered about that.
Gaben.
Watch BattleBlock Theater’s Steam version announcement trailer till the end, thats my avatar.
But hey, at least it has Denuvo so I’m sure it will sell great, right Square Enix? XD
But hey, at least it has Denuvo so I’m sure it will sell great, right Square Enix? XD
I noped outta this at the first sign of Denuvo The poor performance and the $80 CAD price tag is just an extra reason to avoid.
John, please take a journalism or writing course. Reading your commenta on lack of polish and/or quality is ironic when you write like an 11 year old.
GO TO POLYGON
Wanting decent writing is not unreasonable
Or Eurogamer given that standards there have plummeted so low that one of their mentalist SJW activists masquerading as a games journalist contrived to mention Donald Trump in their utterly abysmal soy-infused review of Dead or Alive 6. I’m not even joking.
yeah and some vice waypoint dude was streaming yakuza and had to close his eyes with his hands to avoid seeing tities. He thought the game had nudity in it. My freaking god the soy in these people. Why i dont see you posting in oneangrygamer?
> you write like an 11 year old
> Reading your commenta
Also, given that the site owner is Greek so English presumably isn’t his first language then I’d say he’s doing just fine.
i think this is the same guy who posted nudes and pretended to be other site members by changing his profile name and avatar.
That’s a simple typo, A is right next to S. Typos are permissible in *user comments*. It’s true that John’s English is comically bad for someone who has been working with the English language for years. This site has always been English, the man reads and writes English every day and yet he is still barely coherent after many years. Note that when news pieces here seem eloquent it’s usually because they are copy-pasted press releases from game companies. His own writing is always this clumsy, both in technique and in tone. It is peculiar and deserves to be brought up as a critisizm.
> critisizm
You know the best way to show John that you are a better writer of course. Start your own site, and watch people flock to it by the millions, for your stellar writing skills.
Can’t wait to see it!
Writing skills don’t matter in games “journalism”, that’s why that wouldn’t work, and why John doesn’t bother to improve. He knows it doesn’t matter.
Doesnt look that bad, looks like mgs v but with more complex areas. This is the point i ask, are the enviroments nonlinear or linear like a x360 game? Eg sniper elite v2
I played Resident Evil 2 Remake, then Metro Exodus and now I’m about to finish Shadow of the Tomb Raider…all these 3 games look awesome (Tomb Raider was the most surprising to me, the jungle looks epic and all the details in the environment at times are breathtaking, Metro Exodus is in another level but wasn’t impressed since I knew that it was going to be amazing, and Resident Evil 2 has also very high quality details and such)…now look at this and wow, pure hot garbage.
Hot mess game+denuvo..what the hell Square Enix smoking???
PS3 games look more beautiful when upscaled on 4k
The titan game developers of yesteryear are being pressured to cut back costs which inhibit the adoption of modern techniques for low to outstanding looking graphics that are less intensive. Further more reducing the ability for mechanics to be added that can include quality of life improvements or even things added for fun factor. This will ultimately allow the cycle of a new development studio to turn heads. Eventually leading to acquisition and the circle of development studios life will continue till the studios eventual end.
This should be EPIC exclusive, then they can control what users can say and whatnot about the game.
You forgot to mention that the game has issues with constant crashing as well. Experiencing some severe buyers remorse.
I was like oh i bet its not that bad then i look at the pictures and it looks like a 3ds game remastered lol
WOW WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT? I’M SO SHOCKED!!!
No surprises…I expected it to be just like it is based on watching gameplay trailers of this game!
Game over Square Enix..Just Cause 4, And This Published by Square Enix. Please publish one more garbage to make a hat-trick 😀
Well graphics are not the most important thing and they can be overlooked if the game is great and this one … is just not. It is sh*t.
Are you surprised?
Japan is terrible at making video games. That’s been known.
Anything from Square Enix is a given waste of time and has been since 2002. Tomb Raider reboot was half decent, but that’s about it.