Tedious game with zero fun factor. Experienced FPS gamers will find this game does not live up to modern FPS standards.
That being said, I was extremely pleased to see a MMORPG game with FPS combat. I've been wanting a game like this for a long time and was excited to begin playing Fallen Earth.
Unfortunately this game was hugely disappointing to me. In fact, I feel a bit ripped off paying the $50 purchase price. I will definitely not be playing past the first free month. Here are the reasons why:
- Fun factor is totally missing. This game seems to be based on crafting for the most part. You spend alot of time scavenging for parts to craft stuff. While some people may enjoy this, most FPS gamers will probably find it tedious and boring.
- The overall physics and AI are very basic compared to the physics and AI in game like BF2 and Left4Dead. For example, there's very little concept of gravity. You can walk straight up and down near-cliffs with no damage. You can drive vehicles straight up cliffs. There's no fun factor when driving vehicles: no catching air over jumps, no rolling your vehicle over when taking a turn at high speed, etc. Your vehicle clips right through enemies with no damage (no running down bad guys).
The enemy AI is so basic its almost non-existent. Enemies just stand around at their spawn locations until you walk up to about 2 feet away or shoot them. Then they simply run up to you and attack. The enemy never goes for cover or works together. They just simply attack. Compare this to say the Smoker in Left4Dead who will sometimes duck and cover and run away if hes been spotted or shot at.
Seriously, the devs of this game need to play a few rounds of BF2 or Left4Dead to see how real AI and physics engines should work.
- You spend a LOT of time simply walking around in this game. The gameworld is one huge map and there's no teleporting between locations. I believe this is because you eventually get vehicles/mounts to speed up your traveling, but you do not start with one and the early part of the game involves lots of walking for 10 mins to a quest, then walking for 10 mins back to the NPC to complete the quest. As far as I can see, theres no way to simply buy a mount. You have to build it from scratch which involves collecting all the part. Once you actually build a mount, you have to worry about keeping it fueled up and repaired. I have to deal with that enough in real life, I dont want to worry about that in-game :) Also, all vehicles of the same type use the exact same 3d model so everyone's 4-wheeler looks EXACTLY the same (being able to at least paint it a different color would be nice). And for some reason, there is no sound at all when someone drives past you in a vehicle, they just silently drive by.
- Missions so far are completely unimaginative and are not fun. For example, most missions I've done so far are "Go kill 10 raiders" or "Go kill 10 wolves" or "Go kill 10 rabbits", etc. This is the same thing I've done a million times in other MMOs. The other issue is since the world is persistent, you end up walking for 10 mins to an area where you have to kill 10 of x enemies, but there are already 5 other players in the same location trying to kill the same enemies so you end up waiting forever for them to respawn. Also, sometimes when fighting your way into an area, by the time you get to the end of the area, enemies at the entrance have already re-spawned and now you have to fight your way back out even though you've already killed enough enemies to complete your mission.
Bottom line is that for a game thats trying to attract FPS gamers, the gameplay, physics, graphics, and AI do not live up to what you have in other modern FPS games out there. Us FPS gamers have come to expect these in a good game whether its a straight FPS or a MMORPGFPS, and unfortunately Fallen Earth does not live up to these expectations.