![]() ![]() Wired Productions provided us with a Falconeer Xbox Series X code for review purposes. Don’t expect anything more than that, though, because there’s pretty much nothing else to do. The Falconeer really only does that one thing, so if it’s your thing, then you’re in luck. The controls are kind of wonky - as enjoyable as it is to soar, the birds here aren’t exactly the most agile things in the world, so you spend a lot of time banking around and coming in for a new pass, and doing that over and over again until you finally shoot down all your enemies.Īll of this is probably fine if you want to do is aerial combat for a couple of hours. This, in turn, is an issue, since it’s not particularly fun. ![]() You realize pretty early on that what you’re doing in the tutorial is what you’re doing for the entire game. You fly to waypoints on your map, you engage in a protracted dogfight with other falcons, and then you fly off to repeat that somewhere else. Unfortunately, a lot of the magic of that wears off as you realize there’s not much else The Falconeer has to offer. Without a doubt, the game does a very good job of capturing that feeling of flight. The game looks lovely, controls well, and offers surprising depth considering it was created by a single developer, but an uninvolving world, repetitive missions, and combat that isn’t as visceral as it should be grounds its potential. Flying across the ocean can be breathtaking, whether you’re soaring through stormy clouds or skimming along the surface of the water. The Falconeer doesn’t do anything glaringly wrong, and yet, the overall experience doesn’t really click. To be fair, it does probably look better than most other games. In fact, if you’ve played any aerial combat games in the last, like, twenty years, I’d say that there’s nothing here that you haven’t seen many times before. In The Falconeer’s case, not a whole lot that you couldn’t have gotten from the previous generation. After all, it’s the first game I’m playing on my Series S, and I was eager to see what innovations the new generation would bring. Unfortunately, as far as the story is concerned, the world itself is the only thing The Falconeer has going. While I wouldn’t say I was over-the-top excited for The Falconeer, I did approach it with some amount of enthusiasm. Really, the world of The Falconeer is visually stunning and delightfully original. ![]()
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