YOU ARE THE MONSTER

The game has a great casual play basis with upgrages coming at the right speed to keep you going on for another round even if for another day. As your monster progresses; they grow in size, gather useful and character specific abilities. You can play a 13 minute standard round, or an endless mode. As you progress, you can unlike additional monsters through death and destruction metrics. The game overs "mutations" as a way to modify your gameplay with tweaked abilities and advancements; of course as a cost of increasing game difficulty. Thumbs Up: Your monster learns powers very quickly advancing the gameplay from the beginning with each monster having a set of unique and tied-in abilities. Abilities are linked with cooldown timers so your monster is not overpowered. As you play, you gain in size, with size comes the abilities to destroy larger items. You start the game with the ability to knock over fences and flip cars, eventually you can move on to bigger things including buildings. With size the difficulty level increases so there is game balance. Thumbs Down: Gameplay showed now issue and ran fine on lower model pcs with no dedicated GPU. While the monster graphics are on par, everything seems subpar, especially moving objects such as people and cars. Oh... the people are the worst. The city is limited in size and you find yourself just circling the same few blocks after some basic game play and exploring (about 5-10 events); as cars and people respawn, this creates a farming pattern until you're big enough to really start your mass mayhem. There were multiple controller only issues on the main menu for and this was tested with several controllers, cpus, & settings. No noticeable game play controller or WASD issues. There is a vague lack of tutorial in the game, while not an adult issue, i found children struggled to understand some of the gameplay concepts, although they still enjoyed it never-the-less. Suggestions: I'd love to see graphic improvement on the people, while not a big issue when the monster is bigger, it's noticeable. Additionally make more of the city destructible. Id love to see more exterior building and permanent roadway/ground damage. More settings and monsters could add to hours of additional gameplay. Make powers more selectable, perhaps an option of powers to choose from or a varied upgrade.