High On Life Review (Xbox for PC / Xbox Series X|S)

I pretty much thought this would be the proper critical reception.
Dude, your so unfair man, you've busted my high.
But thanks for telling it how you see it.

Devisive and def not for me.

This is quintessentially the most Xbox review of all time, bro!

4/10 I will definitely try it by myself to see if the game suits me but 4 I think for what I saw that you are being harsh .

It doesn't sound like I game I would enjoy, but this review was really hard to read. It sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

Oh wow. Was not expecting this low a score...thought it would be like a 6 or 7/10.

Will nevertheless still give it a go myself this weekend.

I’m sad to hear you didn’t enjoy the game, but you make valid points. That said, your review seems so full of vitriol, similarly to Eurogamer’s review. It’s hard to read because it’s as if both reviewers are so offended by the project that it’s difficult to remain objective when anger is clouding judgments.

Personally, I’m loving the game. I’ve played 4 hours so far - two last night and two this morning - and it’s hard to put the game down. I find it humorous (albeit, it’s subjective), and the gunplay is serviceable. However, it’s the game world itself that I love. The entire concept of the game is unique and original, and that needs to be more praised. I simply want to explore every nook and cranny because of how the world is designed.

My only complaints are related to the frame rate dropping often, although it’s not too bad, and the constant barrage of dialogue from the guns, but thankfully that can be turned off.

This game is definitely an acquired taste, so the mixed reception is expected. I just hope that those who are negative on the game will at least praise it for being original and advocate for more games of that nature.

I predicted a 7, judging by Gameplay it looked alright. Will play and decide later in the week.

You can always tell when a stoner stole a girlfriend back in high school when they write like this. Get over it.

Another way below the average review. Still 73 on OpenCritic despite the few drastically low scores bringing it down. I’d say it a shot yourself to see if you like it or not.

@BlackMayge Thank you for your post. I agree with this 100% as I have only played about 2-3 hours last night, but am finding this game to be fun, simple and hilarious and I have never seen any of the shows that this is based off of or referencing at all. I am laughing a lot at the dialogue and i have the frequency of dialogue turned all the way up to hear as much of it as possible. The enemies are fine, the world itself is beautiful and fun to explore, the characters you meet are funny and the game is just a joy to play.

Besides the fps roulette the game is so much fun, so if you liked Rick & Morty you probably will have a great time!

Hard to review if you do not like Rick & Morty or similar, but honestly should you review a soccer game if you do not like soccer? Or a shooting game if you hate shooting? Tricky question!

Yeah, this review pretty well sums up my experience with the game. I played the intro pretty much and was like "this gets better eventually, right?" I don't "hate" the humor as much....The many game memes in the intro retro segment got a giggle from me, and the cokehead sister's dialogue when taking forever to chose a portrait inspired a chuckle or two. There's some humor that's wonderfully subtle (the note on the fridge.) But it all gets trampled upon by the non-stop, manic dialogue and f-bombs that seem geared toward an audience that simply interjecting an f-bomb automatically makes a statement comedy gold. Only George Carlin made that work.

But I could deal with that were the gameplay just not so.....bad. I mean it's bad. Really bad. This is no Halo, or Doom Eternal, or Splatoon.....it's not even CoD. It feels like a bad, generic low budget shooter from a shareware collection in the 90's where they hide the bad gameplay behind "comedy" that's arguably worse. The gunplay is just bad. One of the worst I've ever played. It makes RDR2's gunplay seem like Quake, and Fallout 3's seem like Serious Sam. It makes it worse that I've been binging Splatoon for months where gyro controlled precise shots matter, and....jumping directly from that to this is like jumping from an XSX to a Sega CD in terms of how retro it feels.

It's creative, I hate to hate it....but it's the most B-grade experience I've seen in ages.

@PJOReilly Should we be worried how easily this dialogue came from you? Like, you've had experience talking like this before, it's like too natural, bro. See, I can't even do it. I can't even 360 dudebro right.

@AstraeaV I have to agree. Over at Eurogamer, the reviewer basically stated that anyone who enjoyed this game is a “d*******”. And now, this review on this site, is essentially saying anyone who likes this game must like the comedy style or words “peepee” or “poopie”. Honestly, even though the reviewer did address other issues with the game technically and its gameplay, this is still one of the most unprofessional reviews I’ve read in recent memories.

I am loving it , I've never watched rick and Morty so I haven't got anything to compare it to , I like the sick humour especially how they put it in to the achievements ( Complete the game with Stan's product in your inventory" ) That is sick but funny

Fair review but I’m still going to give it a go since I have a really immature and dumb sense of humor. It’s just interesting to see how mixed reviews have been for this title.

"to how it constantly berates gaming culture and harshes on gaming clichés without offering up any better alternatives or improving upon anything it's ripping into"

I don't understand how this is a band thing. It is 100% okay to rip into something, even if you don't have an alternative.

Just because there isn't an alternative yet doesn't mean the current standard can't be recognized as bad.

I guess VRR is saving the day here because I would have never known that the game was having performance issues.

2 bugs I have noticed:
1) sometimes when people talk, it's faint or it cuts in mid-sentence (I was playing using headphones using Dolby Atmos for Headphones)

2) sometimes during cutscenes, there is a screen shake for a couple of seconds.

Kudos for seemingly having an entire B-rate sci-fi horror comedy inside the game (Tammy and the T-Rex). I say seemingly because I didn't watch the whole thing, but I watched about 5 or 10 minutes of it and there was no indication it would stop.

So far I am enjoying it. I haven't gotten past what I have already seen in game preview, yet. The game world is very lush and colorful, too!

Played it a bit last night. Feel most of the dev time went into world building (you can honestly spend hours watching TVs and listening to NPCs talk.)

But the game certainly is B level at best (so far.)

Im playing this and its perfect for game pass, complete and move on bit of fun

Ooof, that's a brutal review!

As a child of the 70s, I was brought up on lowbrow toilet humour (the Carry On films, Benny Hill etc), so it might not grate on me as much as it did the reviewer.

Shame the game also appears to have technical issues.

However... will give it a try, as and when time allows, and will judge for myself.

Seems a shame it's not hitting the spot for a lot of people, given it's the closest we are getting to a high profile, and brand new, gamepass game this Christmas.

C'mon Phil... we need some high quality original content... it's been a while!

I’ve downloaded it so I’ll give it a try. Rick and Morty for me is very hit and miss, love some episodes, others don’t click with me. I’ll probably not mind the humour but if the gameplay is uninspired and boring then it’ll get deleted pretty quick.

@Tsushima what does perfect for Game Pass even mean? Does adding it to GP library make it OK for the game to be bad? Most people will just try this out for an hour or less, because R&M author is connected to it.
That is not perfect for GP, that is perfect for demo convincing you not to buy a game.

Stoner humor, you say? This may be worth playing for that alone

@Cikajovazmaj I was interested in the game and I saved 46.49 because its on game pass. Like the reviewer said its not for everyone. I do intend to finish it

God awful review(just saying)...personally never watched a single episode of Rick and morty, played high on life for about four hours so far and I'm quite enjoying it.

@InterceptorAlpha I am glad you raised this, because that assertion was the thing that struck me most about the review. I enjoyed the review, and I have no dog in this fight. I plan to play the game, but the conclusion that the humor will be ultra divisive is a very predictable outcome for this title.

But: "to how it constantly berates gaming culture and harshes on gaming clichés without offering up any better alternatives or improving upon anything it's ripping into." I mean......is that really the job of comedy and parody-to rip something and then propose a sensible alternative? Because I don't think that has ever been the case or that expectation.

That idea just stuck out to me as really odd. So I agree with you.

@Sveakungen yeah i got to say Frasers second opinion is probably a more relevant opinion im not sure someone whos not into rick and mortys sense of humour is the best person to review this game

I think having a second opinion on a game review is an excellent idea that more outlets should consider doing. it provides a different perspective that may either counter or reinforce opinions expressed in the review

Good idea second opinions keep it up

Another hyped up game pass title.

Just a reminder to try the game yourself on game pass rather than base your judgement on an individual's subjective opinion

Remember, though, this at least is a filler stocking stuffer while we wait for real exclusives. This game was the BEST of what Google Stadia was going to offer!

@grumpypotato Good mention on audio. I've noticed sound coming from the wrong direction often. Frame rate was ironically consistent streaming to a phone from an XSS more than XSX. But it got into weird stuttery parts.

@antstephenson This is no Benny Hill.... Benny was slapstick but had class. This is the opposite of that. Comedy is all about delivery and pacing. This style of humor has neither. It has quality humor within it, sometimes it does make me laugh, but most of the time it blows it with poor delivery and pacing. It's a style of humor that says "if nobody laughs at the joke, add "f--k" into the sentence a few more times, then they'll know they should laugh."

George Carlin probably pioneered that style of humor, but he could make a joke funny by adding another "f--k" into it because somehow that worked for his delivery. It's not automatically a key to making a successful joke. Many comedians try, and IMO fail, to channel what he did.

But then again, somebody thinks modern Saturday Night Live and Jimmy Fallon are funny, which I find either irritating, or flat and bland, and virtually never funny. So I guess I just don't understand modern American humor which is entirely unrelated to American humor from 25+ years ago. And I was brought up watching BBC.....

To me it's not that the jokes are never runny, and i'm not quite as offended by it as PJ, but it's that, it just isn't funny or isn't delivered in a funny way, always trying way too hard, to the point it becomes unending cringe.

Man, this is a bummer. Another swing and a miss. I guess this release is a fitting end to Xbox’s 2022.

It's as close as I can get a sequel to Odd world Stranger's Wrath ( Classic Masterpiece). But damn didn't expect this harsh review. Gotta try anyway to see how it suits me.

@NEStalgia
Ah well, it's a shame... feels like this game might be a missed opportunity to make something great... the initial teaser looked so promising.

Sorry, what a questionable review. Was this your first Shooter? Did you play this game to the end?
„Story is a waste of time“ - Every CoD, Sniper Elite, Doom, … is more boring and straightforward.

I am about three hours in and enjoying this game. It definitely isn't a 4/10, I think 6/10 is about where this game will land for most people and for some you like the humor will be more and those who dislike it a lot less. I do like a lot that this game is very different. I honestly also don't get how, as others have said, how Deathloop is a 10/10 with the AI and simplistic shooting mechanics it had and this is somehow terrible because of that. One thing that does need to be addressed is the frame-rate. It is REALLY all over the map. VRR definitely makes it easier to deal with but it is still noticeable. Not really acceptable on next gen hardware. But this is not a 4/10, that suggests unplayable. This is playable, just not going to be to everyone's taste.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man...

Just played the first hour. It's actually fun so far.

@Sebatrox yeah if it keeps this up, would easily be an 8 out 10. Glad you're enjoying.

@EvenStephen7 You should try the game out yourself. I think the game is swing and a hit.

"berates gaming culture and harshes on gaming clichés without offering up any better alternatives or improving upon anything it's ripping into"

Man that gives me flashbacks to the Deadpool game, "oh look a sewer level how original" then you sit there expecting some twist or payoff as you play through a generic, substandard sewer level with zero pay off.

I think people are just giving this game a bad score as they are offended by the humor.

I have been playing it non stop since release because I think it's great.

I can get how some will like the humor and some won't, but what I don't understand is how everyone can not be in agreement that it's literally the worst shooting mechanics since Morrowind.

Truly shocked by this review. I'm a couple of hours in and I think it's hilarious and fun. Maybe not the "LMFAOO" level of humor, but it's still funny. Gunplay is fine for a AA game, but I did expect more. Oh and the guns are the best part lol. Try it out for yourselves!

Day 1 patch apparently out now.

@PJOReilly @Xiovanni @grumpypotato I think we can all agree with @Mince though that the human should be just for men. Women should not have the human. Animamal anyway.

Now this thread is funnier than the game!

Okay, now that I’ve recovered from the acid hit that is the comments section, I’m definitely planning to give this game a go over the coming days.

It seems sort of what I’m looking for at just the right moment. Which is to say I’m looking for an Irvine Welsh game, but as written by a primary school child.

It’s like if they took all the drug addicts and told them to make a game, this could be that game, so for that reason, a reason of non-reasoning, it gets my vote to play.

It’s like how Halo for example can still be successful, despite looking as if the lead texture artist was Stevie Wonder after a day course at college.

I love the humour. I'm not a stoner. I might just be a child trapped in a 42yr olds body.

@Sebatrox I suppose it's up to subjective preference, but, I just can't understand how the gunplay could seem ok when even GOAT RDR2 was kind of panned for poor gunplay, and that was somehow better than this. I mean, this is Xbox, it has the stable of half the greatest shooters ever made on the same subscription. The whole lineage of Doom and Quake and Halo, and Gears. Crossfire X. Even quake 1 has tighter gunplay. If someone likes the world and humor enough I can see wanting to play it, but otherwise, for the gunplay itself, I just don't see why anyone would play this versus literally any other shooter on Game Pass. This approaches Power Washer Simulator levels of tank controls, but, then, that was the #1 game on GP for a while.

At the moment 4/10 is generous in the extreme…..but…..9.92gb patch now available and maybe this will save the day. I was looking forward to this game and more than willing to give it another try if the patch fixes the abysmal performance on Series X

Downloading now, fingers crossed….

… December 14 Patch Notes
・General crash and proress blocker fixes, including bad respawn in Douglas Mission and Jetpack tutorial.
・Improved PC performance across various hardware configurations.
・Improved performance across Xbox One, and Xbox Series platforms.
・Improved UI text and button readability.
・Localization fixes for incorrect/missing translations, subtitle timing, and overall readability.
・Fixed combat music playing at inappropriate times and music getting stuck during Krubis and Douglas missions.
・Fixed Blorto's menu to display player's warp crystal count accurately and adding a single-purchase limit to Warp Discs
・Fixed commercials starting before the previous video completes.
・Fixed subtitles from remaining on screen after leaving the area or concluding conversations
・Improved recommended default video quality settings detection on PC

3 stars knocked off for the humor then, because you gave Gungrave a 7 which is full of boring linear levels, boring generic story, stupid AI, general jank everywhere, bad mechanics. Less a critique of the game, than a critique of the humor.

Just curious, how did you like GTA5? Because it's making the same sneering commentary on gamers and gaming culture. Trevor is every gamer.

Couldn't disagree more with this review. Loving the game so far and not just for the comedy.

Xbox stop paying money to put this rubbish on game pass and invest in some studio development and top studio management.
I might as well have just sent fire to my game pass subscription money this year.

@Beermonkey I'm not a stoner either, obviously I'm also a child stock in a 52 year old body.
Loving this game

@Westernwolf4 Agreed 100%. I mean, even Rick and Morty turns a lot of people off. It should be expected. Hell, I generally skip that first episode of Rick and Morty when I rewatch just because of rough it is.

This review almost feels like the equivalent of someone that hates a specific genre of game being made to review it.

4 out of 10 (post patch) is really miserly, gets an 8 from me so far.

Wow, I am completely at odds with this review. I was playing it last night and totally having a blast.

I honestly think this is just one of those situations where the game simply isn't for the critic. Like he clearly seems to have something against fun and humorous games like this. Maybe he should just stick with reviewing JRPG's or something.

Like this isn't a game for people who take games or themselves too seriously. It's just all about letting loose and having fun. It's honestly been a breath of fresh air IMO, so many games seem like they try to deliver these serious "2deep4u" experiences, and here comes a game that is just about cracking jokes and making you laugh. Heck I even just found the gameplay to be fun, the whole thing simply works and I am grateful it's there.

I'd give it an 8, maybe 9 out of 10

@Dezzy70 Gamepass has been a disaster this year if you’re just looking for triple A games, I can’t argue with that, but I still think it’s been great value this year. I appreciate that they’ve put games like Scorn, (one of my favourite games of the year) on Gamepass and Chained Echoes more recently. A lot of people are enjoying High on Life even though reviews have been divisive to say the least. I’d rather see them taking risks on games like these than not, even if it doesn’t work out.

To be honest I was on the fence but your review has convinced me to give it a go. The humour sounds right up my street 👍

@JayJ Okay, now I’m excited after you wrote all that! I see no issue with just some stupid humour for a while. The world has gone to crap, so for at least a moment it’s nice to play a game that isn’t trying to be a news anchor. Looking forward to popping onto it laters.

@Fenbops
You know me AAA game bunni 😊
So not a vintage year Xbox wise for me.
I have some hope for next year, but not a lot of confidence being honest.

@TheElectroFunky Yeah considering how it's a GamePass game, you at least owe it to yourself to give it a go. Based off this review, the critic comes off as the type of person who would hate on my favorite comedy shows/movies. It honestly seems like they were the worst person to review this game. Like having someone who hates sports review FIFA.

@Dezzy70 I want more triple A’s too!

@Fenbops
Goes to show this year who has done it for me with PS5 gameplay hours up 95 hours on 2021
In my PlayStation 2022 wrap up.
As the other to don’t do a nice wrap up yearly thing I’m guessing they are about the same but individually less than half my PlayStation total.
BOTW2 May 2023 will definitely push Nintendo up for 2023.
Xbox I have not a clue at the minute for 2023.
They are near on deaths for for me unless they bring it 2023.

Tried High On Life for about an hour. I find it to be an extremely bad game, with so many technical problems it's not even funny. Enemies are shimmering and stuck behind covers watching in opposite direction. Just a mess.
And even the humor I had very high hope for, doesn't really click with me (doesn't feel organic at all). Shame

I would bet my house this reviewer was bullied by kids he refers to as stoners. This game is what it is trying to be, daft fun. Not amazing but decent and fun none the less. The fact the reviewer hasn't put in his review you can turn gun dialogue right down to mission specific dialogue shows he has a weird agenda. Gameplay decent enough and humour is always subjective, so best advice would be give it a go, it's on GP. For me personally, after 150hrs of Elden Ring(which I loved) this was the perfect follow up. I find this review very unprofessional, sneering and unsubtly calling people who might dare to like it a ***** moron.

@Dezzy70 Nintendo emailed my wrap up today. Xbox usually does it near the end of the month I think. They all should have it. PS5 was my least used but it got decent use. Kena, stray, sponge Bob freebie, gt7. That's it though. I bought a few things including hfw I haven't played yet. Xb got many many hours for tales of arise and ai som. And this year it'll get hammered with 3 persona games. Switch...I don't want to see the stats. Between xc3 and Splatoon it's probably better not to see it in numbers

@JayJ Guardians of the Galaxy had great writing that has you laughing all the way through (some touching drama as well.). This is humor that.... Even if you do find some of it funny, the bad delivery just ruins it. I accidentally laugh occasionally through the long cringes.

But the really bad gunplay... How are people giving it a pass? You have every halo, every doom.... And then this. I can get people saying "the humor clicks with me, so I endure the terrible gameplay" but I really can't understand how anyone thinks shooting feels good. Just play 10 min of any halo, then Doom 16/eternal..... Then play this.... . Heck golden eye feels better and it's 25 years old!

@PJOReilly "I hated GTA V."

Internet high five! It's not a popular opinion but I concur.

@NEStalgia Does every game have to be Doom and Halo? I mean I completely disagree with your take on humor as well, Guardians of the Galaxy is the kind of thing that makes me cringe far more than this ever has.

I think the game is fun, I think it's a breath of fresh air, and it's getting ironic how people try to make some stand against it by taking themselves and video games too seriously.

@Cikajovazmaj "Does adding it to GP library make it OK for the game to be bad?"

Isn't that kinda of the selling point of gamepass ? You can take a chance on a game and even it's crap it's Kool because you didn't pay for it.

@JayJ I think those games set a standard for what good gunplay is to compare against. I'm not saying a game can't be comedy and has to be serious, I prefer comedy, tough I will never understand anyone that thinks "drugs and fbombs = funny", but it doesn't matter, if the gunplay we're fun it would be fine. But it's just really poor quality of gunplay. It's not modern and smooth, it's not 90s run and gun, it's just tank controls and inaccurate aiming at amazingly bad AI. Maybe it's bad controller mapping and it's meant for mouse/keyboard only? Maybe mouselook is decent.

there's decades of shooters to show what good gunplay is.... This doesn't have an excuse to not be good.

I tried this last night and am really enjoying it. It did feel a bit rough and first, then had an update which was a noticeable improvement. I love how colourful it is, makes it really nice to look at. I'm enjoying the humour, it's the sort of silly stuff that I tend to go for. The reviewer seems quite offended by it. So far for me it just seems like silly fun, but I'm only a couple of hours in so I'll see if there's anything to warrant the vitriol when I get further in.

@Doublecell it's not, as you do pay for it. Hook for players was that they would get more quality content for less money.
Actually, the selling point for developers is that people will pay for their game, even if it wouldn't sell on the open market because they blindly prepaid for it.
There is an overlap between the two. It's just that I don't believe bunch of junk counts as "more" or "anything" really, if I ain't gonna enjoy it.

@Cikajovazmaj Nothing of quality is given for cheap, in most cases you get what you pay for and that's seems to be true for gamepass.

People seem to be getting incredibly agitated by this game. I am ambivalent about Rick and Morty - sometimes it really makes me laugh; sometimes it disappears up its own arse in a cloud of self-importance and pre-conceived memes. This is an (almost) functional shooter with a sense of humour you can either tolerate or not; but which seems to provoke review styles which are at best idiosyncratic, and at worst dismissive and potentially rude (not necessarily this one) about people that might enjoy it.

For my money, be it spent through Game Pass or not, I threw a few hours at it yesterday, and found it an enjoyable enough timesink. Massively rough around the edges, and a bit stingy with the upgrades, but a nice palate cleanser between sessions of Midnight Suns. There was certainly nothing within that provoked the extreme ire cast by some members of our increasingly grumpy community. Just my opinion, obviously.

Seems like a "try it for yourself" game. A lot of people seem to be enjoying it. Not for everyone though.

I played half an hour last night, I was tired and I dunno, it didn’t blow me away. I liked the opening with the ‘Doom’ graphics and found that quite amusing but then the game started proper and I was like hmmm I’m not sure about this. The comedy doesn’t bother me, it’s okay, but the graphics are awful it’s a blurry mess and the gunplay did not feel satisfying. Not sure I’ll jump back in, Chained Echoes is worth my time so I’ll probably stick to that.

It is pretty meh. Deleted it within a half cause I was tired of the constant cursing. There are other words besides F*ck.

"This review is for the PC version of High on Life, as we didn't receive Xbox code until this week."

Then do a review when you can play the thing.

I'm enjoying it. I find the humor pretty hilarious, it's entertaining, and a well-rounded game.
But what do I know? I'm not a professional reviewer who gives boring garbage like Pentiment a high score.

I hope we see more funny and fun games, and less ugly and boring games. But thanks to paid reviewers, we'll see more lame, ugly shovelware.

4/10 >>>>>you can tell an gen z person wrote this review.
the generation who have no sense of humour at all.
Unless it woke humour that is vitriol makes no sense at all.

Made an account for this comment. Googled reviews for the game and read through a few but holy cow this is one of the most unprofessional reviews I've ever seen. Based on the UI, I'd imagine this is a sister site to NintendoLife and I'm shocked the standards here are so low. Theres disliking a game and then there's whatever this is. This is like the fourth review result on Google and what am embarrassing thing to see as the first and likely last experience on this site.

@InterceptorAlpha A number of years ago, a well known gaming site started a review of Horizon Zero Dawn saying something to the effect of: "I don't like these kind of open world map games", and then proceeded with a negative review. I wrote a comment respectfully saying something like: How much are we supposed to get out of a review, even a well done one, from someone who goes in not liking that kind of game?

I still remember how badly I got blasted for that comment-a lot of negativity came my way. A lot of people seemed to not understand what I was saying, and thought I meant that the reviewer had to like Horizon. That was not my point at all (although I do think HZD is pretty frigging great): All I was saying is that if a person does not like a certain type of game, they should probably not review it just because it is not much use to the reader. I dislike platformers, so no one should ask me to review one because even the best one has little chance of breaking through with me. Someone who actually plays them and likes them is better qualified to tell a potential player what a game of that type gets right and wrong.

Again: Nothing against this review. I found it entertaining, and I think this title is going to be highly divisive no matter what. But I do think someone who likes Rick and Morty type humor is probably a better judge of whether they hit the mark they were aiming at. And I do think gaming sites should stick with folks who like a certain type of game to review that type generally.

Folks who do not like JR's brand of humor don't need to be told-they already know this game is not for them. The rest of us need to be made aware whether this game hits the mark or not.

If you take dumb humor this seriously, maybe this isn't the type of game you should be reviewing. The fact that you are roleplaying, criticizing your own takes is very jaded, weird, and downright goofy. Just an overall crappy attitude and very unprofessional behavior in this review.

Overly cryostat review and yes they clearly just don't get it.
Yes the humour is in the style of Rick and morty the creators of this. If you don't like that humour then don't play or review the game! If for some reason didn't expect this then I'm lost for words.
The shooting in the game is simple but creative. The weapons are all distinctive not like most games recently where the guns are all basically the same but shoot different speeds or damage. In some ways the shooting reminded me of original halo shooting the basic bug type baddies. Yes they are stupid and panic running around at times... and I love it. Dodge and swinging around and then three finishing moves make the battles interesting. Its fun and silly and brutal at the same time.
8 out of 10 for me.

@Madeforthiscomment Yeah, which is too bad this is your first experience here, as Fraser (who added his dissent) has done a very good job here. This is a terribly written review with just a piss poor attitude. Looks more like a rant by someone who really hates Rick and Morty than a professional review. And the fact that he's roleplaying hostility towards himself, tells me how immature it is. It's just not writing behavior you want from a site trying to establish itself as a legitimate source for reviews. This makes me question whether I can trust this site for reviews (they are great for breaking news). Nintendolife is very good at their reviews, and I hope Purexbox can glean some guidance from them after this.

It’s clear from the review that the reviewer is just not into this kind of game, which begs the question, why would they review this game if they know it’s just not going to click with them? Just try it on Game Pass for yourself to see that this is in no way a 4/10 game. Sick of the gun talking? You can actually turn it off or choose for it to talk less frequently. If your into Rick & Morty then your going to love this.

Awesome game

There's a certain irony to the idea that the review used the game's own writing style to review the game, and so many commenters are railing that the review style is "offended", "unprofessional", "immature" etc. Does that mean, then, that they agree with the review?

The humour itself is almost a side point - how can anyone say this is a 'good 'game'?
Its basic shooting mechanics are truly awful and I've seen nothing in terms of game design which merits any praise?
I don't mind Rick and Morty, though this is hit and miss with me on humour, and I appreciate the colourful world building, but you gotta be pretty desperate for a game if you think these mechanics make a compelling gameplay experience, whether you are laughing or not.

Ok so I just finished the game and I think it is the best Xbox game I have played all year.

The worst part of the game for me was that it had ended.

Don't listen to the bad reviews and just give the game a try yourself. You will probably like it if you do.

@Titntin We often disagree on aspects of the game and industry, but in this one I feel like you've restored my hope of sanity in the world. I keep reading all these comments about how great the game is regardless of the "humor" and I feel like people are playing a different game. I truly don't understand how any gamer that has played any other game could play this and not think the mechanics and design are anything but awful. The shooting is the worst of generic 90's shooters, the mission objectives descend into "wander around and stumble into the right thing eventually because the game really does not give any sense of what is what is what or where, and it has a level of polish that makes Todd look like Shigeru.

I could tolerate the game consisting mostly of fart jokes if it was in service of a good game, but this feels like rudimentary gameplay slapped together as filler to make the interactive comedy show into a game.

It's a low quality 90's game dressed in 00's visuals to service a questionable comedy show.

If looking for dubious comedy that tends to actually be funnier and a game that's actually fundamentally better even if still less than great, the Adventure Time games are a much better pick.

@HelloCraig on YouTube? When's it go up?

@Sebatrox And a 7 from GameSpot. The game is nowhere near a 4 that’s for sure.

4/10 is harsh. Now I haven't played the PC version, only the SeX version after two updates and I also turned that awful motion blur off. Probably put it as an 8, but I did like the humour and enjoyed the low IQ puzzles, similar to GoW: Ragnarok, not because they were challenging, but it broke up the action nicely. I would notate that there is a reason this game is selling and being played at a high level, despite it's flaws. Gamers enjoy stupid stuff once in a while, they want to laugh, shoot aliens, destress from real life (and it's various r-slurs) so a game like this provides an outlet for them. What I played was a competent, funny fps. Probably the most fun I've had on Xbox in the last few months, seems a lot of gamers feel the same.

@Sebatrox I have to agree. At first, some of the dialogue was annoying, but I got over that. I'm having a blast with this game. Probably about five-six hours in. A solid 9 for sure. One of the best games of the year and a lot of fun. Evil West was another game that I had a lot of fun with. Check that one out if you can.

So, I've completed the game, and had a blast! I highly recommend doing all the warp disks but if you only do one do the movie theatre! I wish this had been reviewed by someone who enjoys the source material as those are the people most likely to buy or download the game. Instead, we ended up with a review tainted by PJ's dislike of Justin's work. I think that Squanch games did a squanch job squanching this squanch and they didn't dilute it for greater squanch. Many folks are fans of Rick and Morty and Solar opposites as can be seen by this game's popularity on game pass. I hope, in the future, you choose an appropriate reviewer .....for the sequel (bring it!).

I am really enjoying this so far. I actually prefer the slower pace of this compared to some of the more trigger happy FPS games out there.

I'm a big fan of Rick and Morty humour but even I was slightly surprised to be offered a big fat line of cocaine in the first 2 minutes. 🤣