Once Human review: "Like a crawling bus, its more original elements hide dull and generic ones"
Once Human offers a world full of strange creatures that's refreshingly unique in the survival MMO genre, but that world is populated by derivative gameplay and boring combat and never matches the potential of its premise.
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GamesRadar+ Verdict Pros+Genuinely cool, strange monsters, with a scale that can make them frightening+Massive world offers a lot of variety in locations to explore+Some inventive gameplay scenarios, like getting lost into a Backrooms-like maze
Genuinely cool, strange monsters, with a scale that can make them frightening
Massive world offers a lot of variety in locations to explore
Some inventive gameplay scenarios, like getting lost into a Backrooms-like maze
Cons-Repetitive combat with stupid enemies-Generic gameplay systems add nothing to the paranormal feel-Thin story, often with simple, uninteresting mission design
Repetitive combat with stupid enemies
Generic gameplay systems add nothing to the paranormal feel
Thin story, often with simple, uninteresting mission design
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