Honest Gamers: March! Offworld Recon review
Lewis Denby writes:
"I wonder if March-exclamation-mark Offworld Recon was supposed to be a kind of nostalgic, backwards-thinking take on the action genre, reminiscing about the games of yesteryear where all that mattered was placing enough enemies onscreen to allow the player to shoot something in the face every three seconds. But developer HBM seems to have missed the point of its favourite classics by a few light years. It wasn’t just the sheer number of baddies that led to these games’ success; it was the quality of the design, the weightiness of the weapons, the layouts of the levels and a hundred other finer points that March-exclamation-mark Offworld Recon seems to completely ignore. Instead, it’s completely action-by-numbers, so clumsily executed that it feels like a piece of software made by an over-zealous nine-year-old using 3D Game Maker."
