Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Jan 4, 2014

  This is the worst game I've ever played and I highly recommend it. It's up there with Ride to Hell Retribution in terms of hilarious incompetence and misery. It's one of those unique experiences that are so bad that you just have to see it for yourself. You owe it to yourself to suffer and laugh through this game.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 4, 2014

  UPDATE: Here is a full play through for the game done by me. I went through it a second time for you guys. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDaqY5XSwlA First and foremost I would like to say that their are a lot of people bashing it just based on what they read from Metacritic, without actually owning or purchasing the game. I have in fact purchased and played through the entire game already. In short I can't recommend it as it is the shortest story driven game I have ever played (1 hour to complete going slowly). Here are my basic points and review of the game. The pros: - The story, while your two main characters are a bit weird (brother and sister), has some potential. Sort of Indiana Jones'ish. - The environment looks pretty decent for a $5 title. Recently Indie games have been scaling back the graphics to focus on gameplay, this actually has some pretty decent looking areas. - It is fully voiced in English and Arabic. The cons: - Short! The game is super short. It took me about a hour or so to complete and I could have done it a lot faster. 1 tutorial level, 1 full exploration level, 1 short vehicle combat level, 1 walk around level, 1 quick chase event, and 1 driving event. - Weird movement issues at points. I would try to interact with a ladder to go down and it would jump me in the air and climb up something that wasn't there. - AI is dumb. I would shoot someone with a SMG and their buddy a couple feet away would still be walking patrol saying something like "I know he's around somewhere". Also some other nuances like "Cover me, I'm reloading" when no shots were fired. - The melee combat is awful. - The driving sequence has you driving around Moroco, but the city just loops around. You will drive through the same streets no matter how you progress. Would I recommend it? Not really. The game has some glaring issues with it, in many cases to the point of them being comical. However I am curious what they are going to do with the next few episodes. I don't regret the purchase if for anything will make for a good playthrough video. It is a $5 USD game for let's say 1 hour of campaign. There is a survival mode that I unlocked after completing it, but I could take or leave that. The price point is so low that you might want to pick it up just to see what it's about, but you aren't going to miss anything groundbreaking if you don't. Plus it is probably the shortest campaign driven story game that I have ever played.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 4, 2014

  5 minutes in and already dropping down into white endlessness because of clipping errors. Moving is a hassle, left/right movement is not strafing but will turn the character, move him forwards and re-align the camera - no matter what the mouse tells the camera to do. Might be handy on a console, but when you're using a mouse to control the camera view - why build in things that override the player controls? It's really an utter nuisance. Controls can't even be configured. Maybe you'll find it better with a gamepad, but even with a controller there's nothing you could do to avoid "jump-rolling" into a wall and dropping into eternity. Doesn't look toooo bad, it's obvious that some work went into this, but to my eyes it's PS2 level, hardly PS3. Not "current shooter average". Pigeons sitting under water, enemies staring at walls and shouting lame "reloading, cover me" commands into an empty room, showing zero AI at all... Really sorry to be so negative, but it's just not worth the 4€ from my point of view.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 4, 2014

  While it's refreshing to see a game like this that doesn't feature a burly white American man as the main character, Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta, is unfortunately a very buggy, poorly slapped together game with hilariously bad voice acting, animations and writing. It's nothing more than a mockbuster created to capitalize on the success of the Uncharted series. Even in one of the early cutscenes it's mentioned that the protagonist "always enjoyed raiding tombs and uncharting mysteries in videogames." If the game wasn't so broken I may have enjoyed it, but it makes Deadfall Adventures look like "the Citizen Kane of Video Games". It's sad because the Unity engine is capable of much, much more. Would only recommend it if you want something to laugh at.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 5, 2014

  Guide to uninstalling : Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta 1) Open your Steam libary 2) Find "Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta - Episode 1 - Gold Edition" 3) Click Mouse Right Button -> Delete Local content
• gamedeal user

  Jan 4, 2014

  Many people would try to tell you that Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta is a poor man's Uncharted, when it's clearly the other way around. My friend and I discovered after playing through the whole game that what we have here is clearly the better experience. For example: Uncharted had Nolan North. [url=http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198004220434/screenshot/469798213432202374]Unearthed has Troy Baker.[/url] Which one of these voice actors won GOTY last year? That's what I thought. [b]Unearthed: 1 Uncharted: 0[/b] Unearthed runs at 60 FPS at 1080p. Uncharted only runs at 720p at 30 FPS. Basic math tells us that since the frame buffer has roughly 4 times as many pixels and twice as many frames, Unearthed is at least 8 times better looking than Uncharted. [b]Unearthed: 9 Uncharted: 0[/b] Uncharted 3 had horses. Unearthed has 4 wheel ATVs. That's 4 more wheels than Uncharted lets you ride. [b]Unearthed: 13 Uncharted: 0[/b] Uncharted only runs on the PS3, while Unearthed runs on Android, PC, Mac, and probably the Gizmondo. [b]Unearthed: 17 Uncharted: 0[/b] Uncharted only has creepy slippery Nazis. Unearthed has full on zombies, and it doesn't need to explain why they're there. [b]Unearthed: 18 Uncharted: 0[/b] Uncharted usually only gives you a few weapons to choose from at any time. Unearthed has more weapon types than there are enemies in the entire campaign. [b]Unearthed: 19 Uncharted: 0[/b] Nathan Drake is a pussy who gets scared and emotional when the going gets tough. Faris Jawad doesn't stop cracking jokes even when a gun is fired at his sister. [b]Unearthed: 20 Uncharted: 0[/b] Finally, as Unearthed rightfully points out on the store page, this game has been translated into more languages than most best-selling literature will ever see, because Semaphore knows everyone will want to play this and wants to be culturally sensitive to everyone. Uncharted consists of playing a white guy shooting minorities. I think we know who is more socially responsible. [b]Unearthed: 41 Uncharted: Racism[/b] [b]Winner: Unearthed[/b] This is just a summary of all the things that make Unearthed the best. I didn't even go into detail about the leisurely strolls through the city discussing the plot, or the Kafka-esque analysis of the futility of escaping in a car as the city loops around you. There's just too much to this game to pack in one review, and I implore you to check out what may already be the de-facto GOTY of 2014.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 26, 2014

  This game took me 52 minutes to complete the story mode and a total of 60 (extra 8) minutes to get 100% achievements. That kinda sums it up .-.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 4, 2014

  This game taught me that culture means always carrying guns and shooting everyone you see. 10/10
• gamedeal user

  Jan 29, 2022

  Infamous teaser of Arabian-made Uncharted-wannabe. The 'first chapter', which, like Scheherazade's fairy tale, was never meant to be completed. Just in one hour of the gametime, there is an adventure level with some puzzles, acrobatics, and third-person-view-shooter, Tomb Raider style, then a chase level on the quad where we need to shoot off the chasers, including the helicopter... Yeah, almost like in Yakuza 0!.. Then, there are hand-to-hand fights, a walking-and-talking-sim level, where you can easily miss some valuable collectibles, laying in the dirt under your feet... Then, there'll be a parkour-like chase on the roofs, more hand-to-hand fight, stealth sequence, and then a car chase, where you need to drive through the entire Morocco city! Sounds like a superb adventure, right? Well, except the actual realization part, because every game sequence looks too cheap, even for the early '00s and PlayStation2-era. But yeah, it was released for PS3, and again, only as a show-off 1-hour-long teaser, without any hope of making a complete, tied-up game. So, buy it now only with some gross discount or bundle, and only if you're in dire need to trade one hour of your time for some easy to get achievements, making it one more 'complete game' under your belt... Whatever fancy it may sound. My mark is 4/10.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 4, 2014

  Its the first game to be developed by this studio, don't expect something like Uncharted or Far Cry, they are still beginners who want to improve. You know you are going to find a lot of bugs when you pay only $4 for this. Buy the game if you want to support the Arab developers at Semaphore and help them to improve. Don't buy it if your are expecting high level class game. END OF STORY!