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Stay farrrr away from this game. It's the most fun a COD could be, but cheating behaviour is not actioned, nor is it possible to truly get it actioned by Sledgehammer. They ruined this COD by not forcing anticheat to play a big part. They forgot about this game. It's abandonware, and swept under the rug. All Sledgehammer COD games are terrible if this is their modus operandi.

The levelling of divisions, weapons, and classes are all intricately separated to make a great multiplayer game. Shipment 1944 exists, and the maps are incredibly well designed. The guns ALL feel great.

Sledgehammer games supports aimbots and wallhackers. There's no real system to report a cheater. Even if you record it, and show their 'Banhammer' and 'SH_games' on X, they will never action it. It's abandonware thanks to poor maintenance of basic online competitive infrastructure to create a great community. It's been on Gamepass just to recoup a playerbase that doesn't deserve to suffer. Oh, and there's no crossplay.

P,P.S Zombies makes up 50/55 achievements for this multiplayer mod. 5 for multiplayer... Nuff said.

Remastered: Geralt lost his fear of heights and can finally climb those low-roof buildings :) GREAT VIEWS FROM UP ABOVE :) and some distance from the enemies!

Character work is the real hook. Geralt isn’t a blank slate, and the people around him aren’t quest dispensers. Choices linger. Relationships change. Even small jobs can turn into stories you’d remember if they happened to you. If you’re building an RPG collection and you care about third-party craftsmanship — writing, places, people, consequences — this belongs at the top of the shelf. Combat, exploration, and quests all serve the same thing: a world that treats you like you’re actually there. Still one of the best arguments that a big fantasy RPG can be both huge and personal. There's always things to do, you visit a new location's noticeboard, and suddenly have new question marks on your map. Dialogs are along the lines of what you choose, not direct insertions of what you wanted to say. Sometimes Geralt surprises you with what he says based on what you chose as well. The depth of this is incredible. You also have the option to decline based on what you unravel out of characters.

Diary of a Fire Swallower: {extracted}
I was at Loc Muinne - that's right, the summit of summits itself. We'd gone there, my troupe mates and I, knowing there'd be a meeting of the mighty in the ruins. You see, whenever big shots gather to chew some particularly gristly fat, there's coin to be had for performing men like us - tired jaws need to relax with some laughing and indulging in other sorts of simple delights. I learned this as a lad from my old man, who'd drag me around to juggle outside courts and conventions all over the Continent. And so now, plying my own trade as a fire swallower, I told the lads up soon as I caught word of what was brewing in Loc Muinne and we turned our wagons thataway at once.
I'm not much one for politics, but I couldn't help but listen to some of it this time - you see, we Temerians had just lost our king, and our future was to be decided at that very summit, with John Natalis representing our side in the matter. Radovid was there, too, a young pup then, though emanating strength like a grey-haired alpha wolf. It seemed this wolf was licking his chops over Temeria like it was ripe bit of carrion...
The rest was dull - a lot of talk about the uprising in Aedirn and its leader, Saskia, who they called the Virgin - though I never got the chance to check personally whether that was accurate. The Nilfgaardians had a delegate, some Shilard fellow, and mages were there, talking about restoring the Conclave and Supreme Council of Sorcerers.
I didn't listen to much of that - my eyes were glued to the unusually large number of armed troops present at these "peaceful" talks. Steel-plated grunts clenched pointy weapons and paced the ruins' courtyards everywhere you looked. Radovid had even brought the knightly Order of the Flaming Rose, those arrogant pricks ready to bash anyone who doesn't think the same as them. Though the coin was coming in amply, we didn't wait around to see how things would develop, just loaded our stuff onto our wagon and left at a trot. As we mounted the pass, we looked back to see pillars of smoke, black as pitch, rising above Loc Muinne...


Side notes: This game is worth playing with a GPU undervolt but keep power limits at 100% to prevent losing performance. 46-50 degrees beats 66-72 any day

If you're crashing make sure your PC virtual memory is NOT system managed:

It's an epic fighting game, filled with tonnes of content and great art, great moves, it's very deep for a 4-button fighter.
The cast of fighters is gigantic, and you unlock some new fighters by finishing the story. It's a very long story too!

p.p.s The game is also EZ on performance, GPU runs at 28 degrees, NO SWEAT< and CPU is at 43. There's so much opportunity for all types of gamers to enjoy this series of games!

This game's artistic style and single player content is off the charts. SNK really did great work in the character's looks, and depth of all the moves. The rev system is quite complicated. There's a button for blocking that is stronger than just keeping back to block moves. Rev power through is like street fighter's Drive rushes, to help gain the upper hand through the standard attacks.

The AI is quite tough and actually encourages using the smart move system rather than arcade. This supports modernising the fighting game genre to help make it more accesible to new comers, and as a 4 button fighter, LP, HP, LK, HK, the rev system works in the other buttons to help keep it pretty complex in defense and offense. The bots on level 3 are a tough learning point and it works well to train you for this game.

It's a fantastic game with a great character base to learn and enjoy. The fights are pretty quick, and full of super move-sets & combo's - Highly recommending Legend edition for season Pass 1 & 2 [S3 is not complete yet, and they release one new character per month]

The size of the game is also 34GB, not 60GB as advertised.

I'll keep updating it as my experience evolves. This is another great fighting game, at a great price and full of great characters, with a rich SNK universe. The only thing lacking is a Steam player base. This is great for single-player focused gamers too, with only 4 of the achievements requiring online [2 actually - the 2 clone achievments are downloading the SNK clones, and playing one of them, and winning it to get it] The other 2 are win 1 online game, and win 10 online games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6_Bcu4m7KY
In-game tutorials, and trials, missions, time attack, survival all helps to make you a better fighter, learn the combo's that work with your style, and there's Arcade [classic] controls, or 'Special' [Modern] controls, it's all your choice. The tutorials and trials are limited in Special mode, but all fully available in classic mode. So for example, Classic has 24 trials for a character, but Special only has 9 to learn.

Characters & Fighting Style
Terry Bogard - Martial arts / street fighting (mixed)
Rock Howard - Hybrid (Geese + Terry styles)
Andy Bogard - Shiranui Ninjutsu / Koppo
Mai Shiranui - Shiranui Ninjutsu
Hokutomaru - Shiranui Ninjutsu / Koppo
Joe Higashi - Muay Thai
Preecha - Kickboxing / Muay Thai-inspired
Kim Dong Hwan - Taekwondo
Kim Jae Hoon - Taekwondo
Marco Rodrigues - Kyokugenryu Karate
Mr. Karate - Kyokugen Karate
Gato - Hard Kung Fu (Bajiquan, etc.)
Hotaru Futaba - Soft Kung Fu (Tai Chi / Baguazhang)
Billy Kane - Bojutsu (staff fighting)
Tizoc - Wrestling / Lucha libre
Kevin Rian - Police combat / explosive brawling
B. Jenet - LK Arts (Savate-style)
Blue Mary - Sambo / grappling
Ken Masters - Shotokan / Ansatsuken
Chun-Li - Chinese martial arts
Kenshiro - Hokuto Shinken
Cristiano Ronaldo - Soccer / football techniques
Salvatore Ganacci - Dance / music-based
Duck King - Dance + martial arts
Rick Strowd -Boxing

I'm from the days of Virtua Fighter 2, and this has come a very long way since then.
Maxed out graphics looks splendid, and runs really well for a DX12 game.
I'm recommending it early to try build this playerbase while it's 50% off, and I think it's a good price even if you're prepared to pay full, because this was the price a game was back in 2005. The upgrades are here. Crossplay is on by default, it's decent.

It's tekken, or street fighter without the glamour attacks. No weapons. Just fat combo's. This is 1 to 1 martial arts, and the rounds are pretty fast. You can knock opponents out of the ring. There's a world tour vs. bots, [of people] Climb the ranks, and get your achievements. There is a journey of fighting inside here, and it excites me to know a Virtua Fighter 6 is coming in 2027.

In the world arena tour here you earn cosmetics to suit your favourite characters up with. Then there's buying all the associated cosmetics as DLC's or the one DLC bad guy 'Dural' - However, I have a problem that the price is $1 more expensive than the USD price, for Africans. Why do you need extra from us?!

p.p.s It's 26GB now, not 22 as advertised.

This is a super fun evolution of the Street fighter franchise. The base game is awesome, and worth the price, but the DLC's get hella-expensive. r/patientgamers wait for sale to purchase. You can avoid DLC-packs by buying items using the in-game store. There's also a currency you earn with challenges - Drive tickets - and the bought currency used for exclusive items. There's weekly, monthly and daily challenges.

Classic vs. Modern controls is a total preference thing, and can be leaning towards introducing newer players to the game. Modern is much flatter compared to Classic 6-button fighters vs. 3 buttons, and a special attack button.. Modify your controls.. .In fact, go over all the settings you have access to in this game to get the best possible experience.

At first it all looks very complex, but you ease into it. The character/avatar creation is incredibly complex. You could create yourself if you really wanted. The open world is full of unique characters and it's beautiful to see all the different faces, and their outfit variations really do a number on the uniqueness of this title. You will use each street fighter to teach your avatar their moves and build up your character while levelling up [Max Lvl. 100]. Explore the environment with moves you learn from your sensei too, and fight the people in the surrounding, or initiate fights on them, or the bad guys with the moves you learn. Avatar battlehub should be avoided till you have your perfect fighter/capable of doing some moves that can face another master, etc.

It looks amazing. The fights are super responsive and look gorgeous all the way. Your avatar is in the world of Street fighter and learning from the masters, then you get battle hub with your avatar, or the masters, as well as classic mode.
There's also V-battles, where you can emulate the real players, but don't have to take them on in real time. It doesn't count as official matches either, so it's good practice! :)) [accessed from the Battle Hub menu]

You also need 103GB minimum, not 60gb as per requirements.. and space for future upgrades.

The worst part of this game is selling everything in packs, instead of letting you pick and choose the stages or characters you want. DISCOVERY < the in-game shop lets you actually buy them separately!! They will cost R99 each, and you'll save R15/$1 getting them in-game rather than the character pack. This is especially useful if you don't want them all.

The premium battlepass is also not really expensive, but considering it's refreshed 4 or more times a year, it's still reasonable. There's only decorative stuff in here, no characters, or stages. [Stickers, Clothing for characters, etc.]

The game is also incredibly optimized and the open worlds runs from 38-50/53 degrees Celsius on the CPU , and around 38-48 on the GPU,This can also depend on the mode you play, I think arcade runs around 38-41 / battlehub is more or less the same as open world, probably to ensure competitive edge is always there. For a DX12 game, this is really well done! RE Engine is wonderful! It seems to vary depending on the stages too.

Not worth the price even at 67% off for this pack of 3. The missions are easier. It's a dumbed down game, when it's meant to be an upgrade. The memories are good, but if you own the originals, you don't need this R* store infested rubbish. The falling off your BMX mechanic animation is awful.
CJ is also so buff he can run into cars with 3 people inside and he poeses that vehicle in whatever direction you're running.
It's pathetic for a 'definitive edition' - The colour of the sky was puke-like.
There are also achievements in the R* Store that are not on steam, hence, this is just not meant to be enjoyed by Steam™ gamers.

The positives were in performance, for an Unreal engine conversion, and everything graphics wise maxed out, the RTX3070ti didn't pass 35 degrees celsius, with the CPU sitting in the low to mid 40's.

The best thing you can do to prove you love Rockstar is play the originals, play everything up until GTA V - upgraded, and forget GTA VI till it finally releases on PC.
At least we can spectate their release test on the console-peasants again. That price alone was Take2 robbing 'FOMO gamers'

Don't waste your time here unless you're going to update the game, and plan to use a keyboard/mouse or controller. Does not detect wheel inputs. Not the buttons, not the pedals. Too old to care for that, DESPITE having the latest update... which doesn't ship with Steam.
Typical Ubisoft abandonware.

Horrendous playing with anything but a controller.
Oh, and it's abandonware at this rate. No future improvements. No difference since playing this on xbox game pass.
Don't waste any money or spare change you have on this. Even 65% discount is not worth it for this whale of a package. 130+GB
42/57 achievements unlocked as per MS account. I've played more than 600 hrs on game pass. This review was specifically related to the direct drive wheel support of this game.

Since releases of new content have been cancelled and multiplayer, which is the main game mode, is almost abandoned, why not reduce the price further than by another 25%? [It's definitely abandonware]

Game worked once thanks to iRacing installing DirectX -> Will see how often it crashes now while actually playing.. Otherwise,, bottom still applies.. This P-OE$ game destroys itself after 45 min of successful playing, after installing DirectX and getting it to work. I'm not going to make a habit of clearing %localappdata% everytime this Warner BRo's inbred piece of SHIZ stops working.


It refuses to launch properly — black screen followed by instant crash to desktop.
No error message, nothing visible, just wasted time. I’ve spent hours troubleshooting this broken mess, trying to get it to work for my son, and it still doesn’t work.

Here’s some of the things I tried:
■ Verified game files multiple times
■Manually created the entire config folder and pcconfig.txt with correct resolution, forced windowed mode, borderless, low graphics settings across the board (Shader/Shadow/Texture Quality 0, all post-processing off, etc.)
■ Every launch option imaginable: -dx9, -dx11, -windowed, -safe, -high, combinations of all of them
■ Installed every Visual C++ redistributable known to man (2010, 2012, 2013, latest x86/x64)
■ Ran in Windows 7 and 8 compatibility mode, as administrator, with "Disable fullscreen optimizations"
■ Disabled Steam Overlay and every other overlay
■ Clean reinstall on a different drive
■ Latest NVIDIA drivers + manual profile tweaks via NVIDIA Profile Inspector
■ Tried forcing DX9 by renaming the DX11 exe - when steam launch options did not work.
■ Created minimal pcconfig with VSync off, multithreading tweaks, etc.
■ Checked crash dumps (it dies inside LEGO_Worlds_DX11.EXE during renderer initialization)

Nothing works. The game is fundamentally broken on modern Windows 11 + current hardware. Warner Bros./TT Games clearly abandoned this title years ago and it shows.This is not a “tough to run old game” situation — this is negligence. They took people’s money for a product that straight-up doesn’t launch for many users in 2026. Save yourself the frustration and the wasted evening. There are better LEGO games out there that actually work.Do not buy this broken garbage. Stay far away. Amen.