I've been playing Miscreated for years and I still do nowadays and here's my review as a Miscreated Veteran.
There are a lot of pros and a lot of cons.
But first let me say this. People say that the game has been abandonned by the developers.. AND SO WHAT ?? Bro, I play games from 2013 or 2009 which no one gives a ♥♥♥♥ about anymore, I don't need a game to be constantly updated to enjoy it.. -_-
Pros :
- THE MAP : The map is just amazing and looks like The Last Of Us. The decaying houses, the overgrowing nature on cars, buildings, the tags like "Leave or I'll shoot", the corpses (more like skelettons) etc. This game really puts you in a real POST APOCALYPTIC atmosphere. And when I play, I listen to The Last Of Us or Walking Dead music to be in the ambiance.
- The Mutants : The Zombies again, make you think of the last of us because there are multiple types of mutants. Slow ones, fast ones who try to dodge your crosshair, the ones with a spike arm and then there are the big muscular and hard to kill mutants that look like the Bloaters from TLOU. You also have giant spider-like monster that are rare and throw venomous poison.
- The animals : The nature is alive because you also meet tons of animals, from crabs, to birds , to deers that you can chase, squirrels, wolves that can attack you, bears, and fishes when you go underwater. The world feels alive.
- The Guns : There are soooooo many guns with different caliber that you can have your own loadout. I like to do a Dary Dixon roleplay by using a crossbow and a knife but also having a HK .45 in case I run into multiple groups of mutants
- The Interactiveness : I don't know about you guys, but I want the map to be more than just something to look at. I want to be able to interact with it and Miscreated gives you just that. You can search trash cans, computers, you can reactivate bunkers, lights, destroy doors, search water in toilets and so much more. This helps you feel immersed. Those type of interaction, I don't find it in DayZ.
- The Weather : Not only the other suvivors or the mutants or the wolves or the hunger/thirst want to kill you but also the weather, dude. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it's sunny, okay but sometimes you have radiation storms, radiation fog, sometimes extreme cold or extreme heat. You are never safe in a world like this.
- The Mods : Miscreated allows you to mod the game as you like, and there are lot of good guys out there who made tons of mods to help you make the local server to your likings. If you don't want to set up a server, you have plenty of modded servers to choose from. (note that there are no more official servers).
- First and Third person view supported is just awesome !
- Base creation : I recommend seeing a base creation video to see how simple and complete is the base creation in Miscreated. You can create some awesome bases alone or with your friends to store your loot and prevent attacks from other players. In my case, I didn't build a base, I used an abandonned house as base and barricaded it with high walls like in Walking dead. I put up an Guard Post to see upcomming zombies/strangers, and I have tons of loot (meds, food, ammo/guns, clothes etc)
Now the Cons :
- Bugs / glitches : Not gonna lie, guys, the game feels unfinished and could be so much better, you sometimes see teleporting bears or mutants, I know it can be annoying but it doesn't ruin my fun.
- No character creation/customization : I don't know if that's important for you but I wish I could create my own character :D
I've tried multiple survival games, but after a few hours, I always got bored of them. But man, I have 1966 hours played on Miscreated on both PVP and local server where I play alone. That means there's something in this game that makes me coming back to it.
