Twinfinite: “The Callisto Protocol is a beautiful mess, so we thought we'd run down 3 ways the game nails the horror genre, as well as 3 ways it fails.”
Derek writes: "To celebrate the holidays, The Callisto Protocol is giving away previously exclusive skins to all current and future owners starting December 21 – and we wanted to debut the news with our Xbox community."
One of these days I will get around to playing the PS Plus version I got as a monthly game in October.
Soulslikes typically bank on action-RPG familiarity while offering a signature touch, which The Callisto Protocol attempted in survival-horror roots.
History will be kind to The Callisto Protocol, as an ambitious ultra-high-budget game that was flawed but ultimately fun.
The game wasn't as bad as the backlash would lead you to believe. It just wasn't great - it had great visuals, solid world building and sound design.
I feel it was let down by the story and the somewhat inconsistent melee combat. Also marketed as if it was the next Dead Space. At least DS had some scares - there were none in this game.
I played it, I enjoyed it, I immediately sold it whilst the trade price was still high. Glad its on PSPlus now so I can finish off the trophies.
Yea, game journalists went full r*tard with this game, but now that you didn’t pay for it, it’s a game you can appreciate.
Makes sense..,
I’ll have to play it eventually. I won’t buy games that less than 10-15 hours at generally. I’ll buy a physical copy really cheap someday
"Unfortunately, in The Callisto Protocol, players only have access to pistols, shotguns, and an assault rifle, "
Story wise the weapons make sense because you start in a prison. It would have been cool if there were better upgrades to those weapons later on you get explosive bullets but more was needed more bullet variety. Then once you reach the labs more experimental weapons would've been interesting and made sense.
On a side note I really liked the crowbar and felt it was a missed opportunity for environmental gameplay and to take the plain crowbar and upgrade it into a beast. It honestly felt better than the baton.
It nails atmosphere and not much else. Must repetitive monsters and gameplay i have ever seen. Very very boring. And absolutely not scary what so ever.