Remnant: From the Ashes

This game is an underrated gem! I cannot believe how good this game is! I would honestly say this is probably the best third person shooter I have ever played. The story is a nice original take on their own universe and I didn't find fault in its conception or writing. The controls are tight, the shooting is tight, the movement and the dodge roll/neutral dodge are crisp and responsive, just how you want it. The gameplay is challenging, rewarding and addicting as hell! The game runs flawlessly for me, better than many contemporary triple A games and I believe the environments are quite nice to look at. The audio is good, you'll get audio cues before attacks are made (great for off screen attacks) which is a great immersive/gameplay feature. As for the music I turned that off after my first completion and just listened to techno while slaying. The amount of build variety in the game is substantial and the game offers an excellent amount of variety for replayability with difficulty settings, adventure mode (letting you engage with bosses you never even encountered in your campaign) and hardcore and survival mode (I will talk more about the latter below). I had beaten the game multiple times with my friends and at least twice solo (normal and hard) and got all the achievements. I love this game. I would like to take some time to give a word of advice to my fellow completionists... Like me, if you are soloing the "Dominator" achievement, I would HIGHLY suggest that you attempt solo play, or in fact, start tackling survival mode's "Beat 10 bosses in a row in survival mode" achievement as soon as you can/early on in your time with this game. Predominantly my time spent in the game was with two of my friends. Majority of the time I was in a squad of 2-3 tackling the many bosses this game offers. This, unbeknownst to myself at the time, was a HUMONGOUS crutch and in no way shape or form prepared me for solo survival mode. At the time of writing this I had just accomplished the Dominator achievement a couple hours ago and man was it a challenge, reasonably attainable, but indeed challenging for me. Playing solo/survival early will give you the inoculation of having the full scope of aggression on you and only you at all times through each boss encounter. Playing campaign with your friends, or any of the content for that matter, with your friends will NOT help you in the solo survival experience. It became a little bit of a personal vendetta for me to accomplish this solo. The more efficient alternative is to take your friends with you into the meat grinder. I am sure that will help tremendously. But for Throne's sake, HEED MY WORDS, if you play with your friends and then expect to comfortably move to solo survival... you will be in for a humbling experience. Great game, would recommend to everyone!