ReCore Gameplay Impressions | PAX West 2016 thezeroreview

ReCore is a game that has become a topic of contention as of late, being a collaborative development effort between Armature Studios and, most promptly, Comcept who’s latest claim to fame has been the underwhelming Mighty No. 9. With Keiji Inafune being held at the stake, despite his minimal involvement, there is an evidently faltering confidence for ReCore to deliver. Having just walking away from the PAX West 2016 demo, those concerns can be quashed immediately.

[christocolus]

Nice preview...looking forward to it. Check out this newly released 15min gameplay clip.

https://m.youtube.com/watch...

[FITgamer]

Watched it earlier, don't know if it's just the guy playing, but the combat looks pretty boring.

[NoPeace_Walker]

It sure looks way better than No Man's Sky though.

[EpicSandwich]

Combat is actually one of the key aspects that gets me excited. You can charge your shots, this guy wasn't doing it though.

[FITgamer]

@NoPeace_Walker That's subjective and not relevant to topic at hand.

[NoPeace_Walker]

No it is not subjective as the combat in Recore looks way better with more variety and require actual strategy than the combat mechanic found in NMS. It is a fact.

[christocolus]

@fit

Really? I think it looks great. The previews have also been very positive and majority of those who have played it liked the solid gameplay mechanics.

[ShadowKnight]

Looks like another Metroid and Scalebound without dragons. I'll be checking this out on PC

[poppinslops]

Check out the big brain on Bruce... is that a dictionary in your pocket?

[jb227]

May be a nit pick, but I'm not a fan of the obtrusive combo counts in games anymore. The only title that I can think of that pulled it off decently from recent memory was the Arkham series (and even that would be better w/o it). There's just way too much HUD in this game. It's almost comical really. If you include a narrative of any sort, let us be immersed in that over a bunch of numbers & letters on a screen constantly obscuring everything. I mean watching the video it looks like at any given moment we will only have an unfettered look at around 33% of the screen at any given time.

[Kingthrash360]

Action game looks better than an exploration game....ok. but what action game does it look better than?
Just asking. I like what I've seen so far, just wondering why you'd pick nms as something to compare it to.

[nix]

bullet sponge enemies exists because the devs are talentless or lazy af.

Edit: it's got nothing to do with this game... It goes for any game. I also hate enemies when they multiply unnecessarily.

[Nivekki]

FITgamer makes a subjective comment then dismisses someone elses comment for being subjective.

Excellent.

[game4funz]

Wow. You called out someone else for being subjective and not relevant yet youre comment is also subjective and his is relevant since it does talk about the combat in recore.

[Kosic]

I agree with you. Games lighting looks great, combat looks a tad meh and the camera controls look horrible. I'm thinking of skipping myself. Shame as I didn't expect this sort of game from the original trailer.

[Gazondaily]

The visuals are shit tbh. Looks so last gen in many areas.

Let's see how the gameplay pans out though..

[XanderZane]

Looks pretty good to me. Lots of action. I won't be bored that's for sure. The game is only $40.

[sammarshall102]

Yup at $40 I'm hoping it's good and reaches more people then we can get a Recore 2

[christocolus]

and the price is ok... I'm going to be busy this holiday. Gears 4, Recore, Destiny:Rise of Iron, Forza Horizon 3, FFXV, Mafia 3, BF1,Dead Rising 4 and maybe COD:IW

[game4funz]

Already have it pre ordered physical copy from the Microsoft store. Also getting 15$ credit back. Its awesomely priced and the benefits for xbox live rewards helps make this a no brainer.

[darksky]

It looks repetitive. Can get boring after 30 mins if it's all like this video.

[Fullmetalevolust]

thanks for posting the vid,the gameplay isn't the smoothest but it is fun and seems easy to get into, graphics remind of the that Ninja theory game Enslaved: odyssey to the west. Obviously this game looks better but it's giving me the same vibe.

[mark_parch]

combat looks really good, the person playing wasn't using his strafe dash or charge shots

[lelo2play]

ReCore looks interesting. From what I've seen so far, looks like a 7.

[christocolus]

I hope it turns out great...I'm thinking most reviews will fall between 7.4 and 8.4

[sammarshall102]

Yep 7 and 8's are what I'm expecting

I'm hoping it scores higher

[XXanderXX]

Nicce

[spoilerjerk]

Great character design for lead protagonist but the game itself looks terribly average... will be forgotten about within 2 weeks of release.

[Neonridr]

are you talking about this game or No Man's Sky? :P

... too soon?

[KiwiViper85]

Haven't heard much about Uncharted since release either, now you mention it

[dirkdady]

@kiwi

Not following ur comparison .. So your saying Recore will mirror uncharted 4, which was within NPDs top 5 for two months straight and sold nearly 3 million units in its first week? Like the previous person said I highly doubt ppl will remember Recore after a couple weeks, nothing like uncharted bud.

[ShadowKnight]

He might be talking about Quantum Break

[nix]

Or Tomb Raider.

[darksky]

Is all the NMS hate because t's not on XB one?
I reckon people will still be playing NMS in 6-12 months but no one will remember this game after the first month. Looks very repetitive going room to room shooting enemies that take ages to kill.

[Neonridr]

@darksky - I dunno.. I own a PS4. I just like seeing people defend that game to their grave like it's some sort of messiah. Game over promised, under delivered. It's ok. Move on to the next game. I am sure NMS will show up on XB1 anyways.

[ZeekQuattro]

Not feeling the game anymore. I really likes the concept and the first couple of trailers sure made the game look epic. Unfortunately I'm not digging the recent vids of actual gameplay. Its going to be a quiet 4h quarter for me this year. Oh well. I'll have an excuse to beat some of my backlog of games now.

[DigitalRaptor]

Yep, the game looks incredibly rough compared to earlier trailers.

The gameplay looks as janky, as the visuals do rough. It's a shame because the concept and the beautiful art seems like it's being wasted on poor execution.
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By the looks of it I don't WANT to play it. Not in its current state.

I've watched every single video, either official promotional material or media preview of the game and all of them show embarrassingly rough visuals and awkwardly janky gameplay mechanics. I'm sorry, but ReCore is not looking great in its current state and I'm far from the only one to have noticed it. Gameplay also looks very repetitive and not very exciting or impactful.

[game4funz]

No. Have you played it? Many of these gameplay videos are played by someone with little ability with a controller or even keyboard and mouse.

[game4funz]

You got.

gears, recore, gravity rush, final fantasy 15, battlefield, dead rising, shadow warrior, dishonored, forza, and im sure others I cant recall right now.

[Destiny1080]

This has average written all over it

[sammarshall102]

But you thought No Man's Sky would be great

Destiny1080 25 Days Ago
"No Man's Sky rendered an entire universe, NASA would be proud" 😂😂😂


And seeing how your "amazing lineup of 2016 PS4 games" included GT Sport, No Man's Sky, and Firewatch (multiplat) I had a laugh

😂😂😂

@DigitalRaptor Recore's original trailer was CGI so obviously it isn't going to look the same during gameplay

But No Man's Sky actually was downgraded from its original GAMEPLAY trailer

Also you say I'm waiting 9 months for a triple A game but you go every fall without triple A titles and TLG looks like an AA game

[christocolus]

Lol. you should read his other comments.He is always downplaying anything Xbox. I'm glad MS isn't hyping up Recore or pricing it as a AAA title..

@DigitalR

Marketing? I agree MS could do more to market the game but the game has been advertised on the Xbox One quick info window for months now. It's basically the first thing you see once you boot it up or open the store. I know my pals and I will be picking it up day one and I hope it does well but I'm glad to see MS not over hyping it or selling it for $60 cos we know what happens when games get overhyped and end up under delivering... and please stop defending that guy. Why not go through his history or I bet you already did but you defend him anyway right? you are free to call out Sam whenever he goes trolling in any article but this is an article about Recore and Destiny1080 is well known to downplay anything Xbox related..It's funny how you run to his defence and crap on Recore but yet you guys never saw one negative in NMS....smh

[DigitalRaptor]

The guy doesn't think it looks very good. What is the problem?

ReCore's actual in-game visuals looks nowhere close to the beauty of the original trailer. The visuals are shockingly rough, environments are bland, and the gameplay mechanics look janky as heck, but it shows promise despite all of these things, which means that there's talented developers behind this product. I just don't see it yet.

But I don't see what you can find so funny about his comment, when you think every poor Xbox exclusive is good, are willing to lie about them when exposed, and when you've been waiting 9 months for a quality AAA exclusive game this year, and ReCore doesn't even qualify as AAA.
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@ christocolus

Maybe you should pay attention to Sam's comment history of lies and delusion, downplaying PS4 and its games.

You're glad MS isn't hyping up ReCore? Enjoy seeing it flop then, because there hasn't been a hint of marketing for this game, and it doesn't look good enough to stand on its own. You should never wish for that.

[nix]

This game is being sent out to die.

[rainslacker]

Your glad MS isn't hyping up recore? A couple E3 trailers and the occasional social media/MS blog trailer is what you'd consider sufficient marketing?

Game looks OK to me overall, but I'm taking it for what it is. I will buy it because I like these kinds of games. Will reserve judgement until I play it. These trailers make it look OK, nothing spectacular, but not terrible. But some people will say things which may be a bit harsher for whatever reason.

MS only hypes it's big AAA exclusives from it's first parties, or those games which sell many millions of copies, or games which they feel will somehow have an effect on the actual sales of the Xbox system....which they'll drop the second they realize they don't need to hype the game anymore to compete with another game.

Recore is the same thing as all their other mid-tier to lower budget titles. A few trailers, talking itup in some twitter post, maybe a launch day blog to inform people it's available, maybe a top spot on their store, and nothing more.

And that is what I, and others, mean when they say people's perception of the brand is that it only has a few staple games to rely on, and not any other issue that people seem to think it may be. Some people are just not as eloquent in expressing that sentiment.

If MS wants people to be excited for these games, they need to be a brand where people expect these kinds of games, and buy the systems for these oddball titles that come along. Otherwise, you're trying to sell to a core base which doesn't care about these kinds of games, which is why these games fail to really do much when they do go on sale.

[DigitalRaptor]

@ Sam

"Recore's original trailer was CGI so obviously it isn't going to look the same during gameplay"

In honesty, it doesn't even look like the same game.
Are they trying to represent that art style or what?
It looks like rough, period.

What does No Man's Sky have to do with this? Are you twelve-years-old and can't take criticism for a game that looks weak, without resorting to bringing up another big game on the platform you are insecure about?

Again.... why are you laughing about games being multiplat, when almost every single current Xbox One game is multiplat and every single first-party Xbox One game going forward will be multiplat? PS4 still has way more actual exclusives that more people are excited for! But that is not even the point.

ReCore looks weak in its current state. Bring some evidence to the table that it doesn't.
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"Also you say I'm waiting 9 months for a triple A game but you go every fall without triple A titles"

Why do you Xbox fanboys lie? I mean you just LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE and lie.
Then, you continue to lie. It's like your brain can't take in the facts, or you just skew them in your favour.

Not only is what you said NOT true, but you're comparing almost a year, to just 3 months "without games".

*facepalm*

Gravity Rush 2 is AAA, with AAA production value.
The Last Guardian is AAA, with AAA production value, just like it was when it was a AAA game last-gen.
Nioh is a AAA game and releasing later this year.

Prove me otherwise. HINT: you will never ever be able to.

PS4 has had games in the fall/holidays but not as many big ones as Xbox One, because what Microsoft does is keep you waiting for many months at a time, and then cram their biggest games into the last 2-3 of months. It's true, and as an example from the last 2 years, between Halo: MCC (in November 2014) and Rare Replay (in August 2015), you had no AAA exclusive. And both of those games were...... remasters of old games on other platforms. REMASTERS!!! 10 months between AAA exclusives, and they were bloody remasters! That's pretty much as bad as the Wii U's regularity when it comes to exclusive games! 😂😂😂

Continuing on.... PS4 has AAA exclusive games throughout the year, and perhaps not as many in the last couple of months. So what? When we get treated to games throughout the year, why would we care if there are less games in October, November or December than previous months?

Why would we care about not receiving as many AAA exclusives during that time of the year, when that is the time in which the biggest AAA third-party multiplatform games are released? Don't tell me your mommy gives you money to buy all the exclusive $60 games and the third-party multiplatform ones as well. And that you'd have time to play them all as well? 😂😂😂

If you weren't so caught up in bowing down to what Microsoft does (or should I say doesn't) give you throughout the year, you would be aware of this.

And stop lying, it's disgusting.
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@ christocolus

Never saw one negative in NMS? Why don't you say that with a fine toothcomb through my comments and you'll see that not to be true. You're still defending this guy, and putting words in my mouth to do so.

[game4funz]

Destiny1080...yea..very average indeed.

It actually looks like a hidden jewel.

[GrmpyolGamer]

Looks really good and for $40 u cant go wrong

[joel_c17]

Looks spectacularly average

[christocolus]

Going by your comment history it isn't surprising to see you here once again downplaying an Xbox title since all you seem to do is downplay everything Xbox..........but it's hilarious and yet quite ironic how you never had similar negative opinions for NMS.. smh

@SmilemaN

"You know I'm a PS guy"

And so? lol...Dude,you are free to defend your bud and have a preference when it comes to consoles and like you,I have a preference too.I enjoy gaming on Xbox One but that shouldn't push me to go troll in PS or PC articles or downplay anything related to those consoles cos of my preferences.Your pal always loves to troll&downplay Xbox stuff but you already knew that, didn't you? Anyways I'm off to go play Battlefield 1 beta and then some Halo 5 and Overwatch...looking forward to Recore and I hope it does well... Cheers.

@Nix

ok........

@Rainslacker

Ok.. :)

[SmielmaN]

The guy wrote 3 words and you referenced: 1) his comment history (which is ironic because your a very vocal XBOX supporter), 2) No Mans Sky (which he didn't mention). This to go with your mini paragraph anger rant.

Dude. Cmon. Your better than that.

You know I'm a PS guy so no need to dig up my comments. But I will say I wish I could play Dead Rising 4, but ReCore looks incredibly average and forgettable to me. Just my opinion. Vilify me if you need to.

[nix]

Chris, you're defending as if you played the entire game... Everyone is entitled to make an assessment from the gameplay. I feel the game has bullet sponge n unnecessary enemies multiplying system which i think is a lazy dev work. You know how i figured that out? By watching the damn videos.

I don't know dude maybe sponge enemies are your thing that's why you're loving this game. I mean who doesn't love shooting one enemy for like 30 secs straight?

The second last chamber (in the first comment video) reminded me of a hall in Bloodborne. In BB, that huge hall was empty except for the 3 enemies. I died so many times fighting them but i still came back and killed them by engaging them one at a time. That was a brilliant section and I'll always cherish it as one of my favourite moments in gaming. In this video, the red enemies as long with others just keep spawning. All you had to do was skip those spikes and keep shooting at them. Little repetitive, don't you feel?

[rainslacker]

I'm a Sony fan, and no need to look it up. Full disclosure I guess.

But the game does look pretty average. Maybe higher quality than average, and the pedigree behind the game is high. I like these kinds of games though, and I'm not turned off by it, but it in no way is that spectacular. There are a few interesting things I saw in the trailer, but nothing that would make me say this game is going to be anything more than average.

I hope to be wrong, as it's one of the last games I'm still interested in on X1, and I will be happy to be wrong when it's finally delivered. But I'm not expecting much. I probably won't be disappointed in it. I probably won't end up caring about it much after I play it though.

I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, but lets not just say that it looks awesome, and that saying that it looks average means that you can't also be an Xbox gamer. There's nothing wrong with average. It's when games are crap that there is a problem....and average =/= crap.

[Munnkyman]

It reminds me of jet force jemni which is s good thing

[game4funz]

Right??? Im glad im not the only one who thought that.
Jet force gemini and mega man meshed together with an intriguing world.

Very anxious to play it soon.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Looks better than Horizon Zero Dawn.

[SpaceRanger]

"Looks better than Horizon Zero Dawn."

Where the heck did that come from?? Nothing but praise and constructive opinions in this thread. What is it with you and trolling when the article is talking about ReCore. Your account is really getting up there with Rookie when it comes to acting like this.

[nix]

Even the blind man knows that Horizon looks way better. He's just bitter.

[DigitalRaptor]

ROFL.

This is coming from the guy who said with extreme confidence that Quantum Break would win GOTY awards, be the best in the action-shooter category for 2016, and continually trolls on PS4.

Movin' on!

[RosweeSon]

Got it pre ordered for £28ish haven't even got the console.. That'll turn up a week or 2 later but free copy of Banjo nuts and bolts swung it, not the best game but 2 games for £28 go on then ;)

[jholden3249]

Wow this looks amazing!

I was a little worried after Armature released Batman Arkham Black Gate but it seems they did the best with what they could in 2D.

This game has redemption written all over it. The actual director of Metroid Prime (greatest game ever made) is at the helm of Armature and you can definitely see some similarities with the style of side dodging, slow bullets and general atmosphere.

I can't wait to play this game.

[DigitalRaptor]

If this is where you go from Metroid Prime, you've fallen far.

The game looks visually poor, and mechanically janky, with dodgy character animation and bland environments.

When you take everything into consideration, ReCore actually has "flop" written all over it with the little attention Microsoft's marketing department is giving it, and that is a shame given the pedigree of the developers. It could be a decent game for its status, but "redemption" is pushing it. Let's wait and see, but in my opinion, as of present, it looks like a highly unpolished indie game with an above average budget.

[iTechHeads]

Looks like an indie game.

[DigitalRaptor]

That's it's because it IS an indie game with a lower than anticipated budget.

I'm not sure how long the game is so I'm not going to undersell its value at $40. Although, Microsoft is not even marketing this game at all, so I've no idea why they've printed physical copies of it that won't even sell.