Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops

In spite of the mostly negative reviews, and low metacritic scores, I bought this based on a handful of positive comments. I went in with low expectations, and was pleasantly surprised. While this is not a AAA title, it is nevertheless a good game. The low budget does show sometimes (copy paste environments, and typos in the subtitles), but it also does many things right. There are some interesting gameplay mechanics and it does a very good job of changing the pace up. Sound design (especially explosions) is solid, and the gunplay is also quite good. I also had some graphical problems at the beginning, with my framerate jumping between 30 and 60 (and this on a 4790K and GTX 970), but after some tweaking in nVidia's Control Panel, it sat at 60 all the way through. This was on Windows 10 Pro x64. Definitely worth a buy on sale.

Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops is your typical first-person modern shooter game. The gist of the game is you work for the United States Army and you have your enemies that are fringe organisations. You, the player, play as both Cpt. Myra Lee and Cpt. Aron Alvarez and switch between them in the later stages of the game, but mainly switch between both in solo missions. Well let's get straight to it. The game isn't very good. This game isn't an AAA game, but not being AAA does not mean you can't have good games. It does have its positives in a above-average storyline that covers a wide variety of settings. I will admit that due to how bad the game is performence and gameplay-wise, I did not finish the campaign. However, I finished about four hours of the campaign, with How Long To Beat.com noting the length of the campaign is seven hours. Again, the campaign isn't that bad. I will note that I had not played this game in many months and coming back to this game, I remembered why I never fini...

People bash this game unnecessarily. Yes, it’s far from perfect and has some issues but it dint destroy me having fun with it. Graphics are still nice, even when it has over the top bloom or being brownish when you turn bloom off. The voice acting is poor and it has no facial animation but well, it is the company’s first game. What do you expect? The game is still fun, has a great story and an unexpected ending. You play as 2 different characters; one for shooting and blowing up stuff, the other for stealth, hacking and going undercover. Stealth is fun and rewarding if you manage a difficult section. In most levels you can switch anytime between them and use their ability. Some people complain about hilarious things like; The cover system is broken. No it is not broken, it’s a walk on system and it works perfectly fine. No regenerating health. What’s wrong with health packs? Checkpoints are far away and no quick saves. There are only 2 spots were they are far awa...

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I often factor metacritic scores and user reviews into my game purchase decisions. Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops is one of those games I put off buying because it was hard to find anything positive about it. To me a 34 metascore means this game is absolutely atrocious, something that isn't even ready for public release. I have to testify that isn't the case. That's not to say the game doesn't have faults. I have yet to find a game that doesn't have faults--ok maybe Call of Duty 4. But I've played some pretty bad games in my time and this one comes nowhere close to rock bottom. It's a traditional cover shooter, but you get to play two different characters, similar to Conflict: Denied Ops. There's a run and gun rambo character and a sneaky, stealth character. Both have their uses in each mission, but the stealth character is by far the more fun of the two for gameplay. Her crossbow works very well and was enjoyable taking out unsuspecting AI from distance. Now there are a couple areas whe...

"Create RendererFailed" All I can say about this game. Really, I didn't expect much to begin with when I downloaded it (was part of a bundle I bought), but that I can't even play the game kinda sucks...

Ok, if the developers would even take a minute to fix the technical issues, then this game would rock. First of all its frame rate is so low i't s almost unplayable, the main problem here is that if you go to the developer's site and forums for some technical support the guys there (Who are obviously paid employees) will do nothing but praising this game and then criticize you for not liking it!!... There's a very interesting idea behind it and and a great concept, but the game just sucks because of technical issues.

I don't understand why so many negative reviews. I didn't have any problem with the game and I liked it. It isn't one of the best games but It's good. Sometimes, there are some small bugs but It is playable. 6/10 Good

This is a terrible game.

This game has some great ideas and can be quite challenging on the hardest difficulty. Each mission involves actively switching between the two main characters at will and using their unique skillsets to complete the objectives. If you don't like these kind of "bad" or "generic" games, stay away, but for those of us who aren't spoiled gamer trash, this is worth looking into. Would also recommend Global Ops: Commando Libya.