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With over 100 hours now registered on Hurtworld, I feel I've experienced enough to be able to give a fully fledged review.


Hurtworld is an early-access survival game that, as stated in the description is extremely punishing in vanilla. Many servers usually increase the amount of items you get from killing animals, mining, etc. to decrease the level of punishment, which allows players (including myself) who don't enjoy grinding to get into (in my opinion) the 'fun stuff'.


While some of the community is saltier than the Dead Sea *Cough*Polskis*Cough* the other half are great people, allowing you to enjoy a mixture of teamwork and heavy combat between those two kids who always kill on sight (with winning against the w*nkers being extremely satisfying). I have also enjoyed many a tense moment too where , and I'm being hunted through a ruined town and needed to escape without being spotted - seriously fun.

Hurtworld is best enjoyed while playing with friends, though, and in my opinion this makes up around 50% of the experience: building an awesome base together, driving out into the red desert or the snowy regions & fighting off players trying to take the stuff you have mined and taken from the radtowns, and much more.

In a nutshell

• Different servers all cater to different playstyles.
  
• The combat in Hurtworld is extremely fun.
  
• Fantastic experience when playing together with mates.

As I said earlier, about half of the Hurtworld community is very salty. Unfortunately this ruins the experience for some, especially those who can't defend themselves on their own against end-game players who just camp you and KoS. I have to admit that I stopped playing Hurtworld for a long while until two mates persuaded me to jump back into the game with them.

The vulnerability of the lone player is no doubt enjoyed by some more hardcore players, however for a more casual player like me it was literally a game breaker. Keep this in mind if you don't know too many people on Steam.

Keep in mind that this is also an early-access game. Not all of the features of the end-game have been done yet, and though they look awesome the lack of them does limit the gameplay to some extent. Seeing as combat is a major part of Hurtworld, the limited variety of weapons, especially guns, is painful. Until ItemV2 comes out (bringing with it the ability to add attachments and customise weapons) this is even more limited. While this of course won't be the case forever, it is at least at the time of writing this review.

In a nutshell

• Salty kill-on-sight part of the community can be a real pain in the ass at times.
  
• Unless played with friends, Hurtworld isn't very friendly to the casual gamer.
  
• Early-access does limit the capabilities of the game, at least at the moment.

Hurtworld is, at the end of the day, a fantastic game. It is great fun for hardcore players, and is great for casual ones as well if you have a few mates who get the game as well.

It has phenomenal potential, and by the time it comes out of early-access it well be very well fleshed-out. I'm always on the edge of my seat waiting to see what the devs will come out with next.

However, if you play casually and don't have many friends on steam who'd be interested in playing this, then I wouldn't recommend it to you. If you're the sort of person who despises games that aren't fully fleshed out as well, then I'd recommend you wait to pull the trigger until Hurtworld comes out of early-access.

If either of those two things don't apply to you though, I highly recommend you buy Hurtworld. While I can't say it doesn't have its flaws, there can never be a perfect game.

When Just Cause 3 was first released, it was plagued by bugs and problems, however I jumped in any way, remorseful of the fact I missed the pre-order bonuses.

And to be honest, I'm glad I did. Even though it does occasionally stutter a small bit during large explosions, my experience with Just Cause 3 is seamless.

The main campaign is okay - I have played more enjoyable ones, but it's still pretty good. Once the campaign is over, there are still a multitude of collectables to find and challenges to complete, and even then the gamecertainly does not feel exhausted at all.

The map is phenomenal, with masses and masses of land to be explored, driven around, flown over, and so on.

As for the DLCs:

Sky Fortress was, mediocre. It certainly wasn't bad, and the bavarium wing suit introduced in it is an absolute godsend.

However, the more recent DLC, Land-Mech Assault, was at least in my opinion fantastic. I absolutely love backstories, so the whole backstory surrounding life on Insula Lacrima for the eDen corporation, its employees and its technology was fascinating, and all the rusted, disused buildings and stations just added to that sense of 'I wonder what it must have been like?'. The mechs are also fantastic, and the power core is a fun EMP-esque weapon to mess around with.

All-in-all, I have to give Just Cause 3 a 10 out of 10. A phenomenal game in pretty much every respect.