ReCore Reviews
Half the price it originally was, but now twice as good – this third person take on Metroid Prime has been remastered into the game it always should have been.
ReCore's immersive gameplay puts you in the face of danger, adventure, and a heart-warming narrative that bonds you with a charismatic human and her Corebots. I'd recommend this game to anybody looking for a new action-adventure game, yet also craving the gameplay and nostalgia of pre-PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 second generation games.
ReCore hits the right notes with fun combat and exploration, while at the same time disappoints with bugs and a pace-breaking, repetitive final dungeon.
ReCore ist ein Spiel, das ich um jeden Preis hatte mögen wollen. Doch leider werden der Spielspaß und meine Liebe zu diesem an sich sehr sympathischen Sci-Fi-Szenario durch arg viele Grafikfehler, eine unsaubere Steuerung und nervige Kleinigkeiten auf eine harte Probe gestellt.
Review in German | Read full review
ReCore is not an AAA game but they want us to think that way. If there is something that we can say about this game to make it kinda cool and important, we might say that is the graphics but that's it! The game is broken and unfinished; but if the developers put more work on it and keep it more in development, now we might have a gorgeous game that makes everybody happy and feel less disappointed.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Smart, simple, but doesn't play to its own strengths
The best way to explain ReCore is that it's a game that has the fundamentals of an action platformer nailed, but just to add more "purpose" is walled off at every turn by a progress gate. Give me my fetch quests, I would kill 15 robots, as long as I do not ever need to see a Prismatic Orb ever again.
ReCore isn't perfect - but that doesn't mean it's not an enjoyable experience.
ReCore is fun game betrayed by technical woes. I love the combination of shooting and platforming, but it just doesn't have enough polish to back up its solid mechanics. It could have used some extra time in development to smooth the experience out.
Despite the poor loading times and occasional glitches, ReCore is an enjoyable game. The puzzles can at times be tricky whilst still being able to give you satisfaction, they are not impossible, which is crucial to keep you playing along. ReCore is a throw back to adventure/action titles of the PS2-era, a type of game that is sadly not as frequent today and ReCore does well to fill a decreasing video game niche, even if it does feel a little unpolished in places.
Normally marketing will begin pushing hard right from day one on a title that is well received, and ReCore was. Instead the marketing and news about ReCore stayed relatively quiet up until it released, and even then it released to little fanfare which is a downright shame because ReCore could be so much more with a little push from the folks at Microsoft and/or Comcept. There are plenty of little moments, like the loving relationship between Joule and Mack, or the overall mission for the game, that really shine and could draw in a lot of gamers, if only it was talked about and highlighted. My biggest fear with ReCore is that if falls into obscurity because nobody seems to be talking about it.
ReCore successfully packs third person shooter, platformer, adventure and puzzler all into one.
ReCore is an example of a good first attempt at a new franchise that hits a few stumbling blocks along the way.
ReCore is a solid action-adventure platformer with fun, interesting ideas established at the forefront. However, those ideas wither over time because of the game's repetition and weak story.
ReCore had a lot of promise, but the developers were unable to meet the expectations of the players. It's certainly not a bad game, it just deserved to spend a few more months in development in order to eliminate some of the major shortcomings.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Too many diversions lead to too much wasted time
'ReCore' can be very fun at times, and it can also be very tedious. It has good video game conventions, like the awesome jumping-dashing-grappling bits, but also has some bad ones, like bosses that are made difficult only by virtue of having massive health bars. It isn't helped by the weak technical presentation. It's probably best for only the most ardent of platforming fans, the players who can put up with all of its hangups.
By the game's end, I found I didn't care about any of the characters. Instead, I was fed up, hunting down the rest of the prismatic cores in order to reach the end. The game had done a full 180. It's a major disappointment, given the promise ReCore shows at its beginning, when it's just Joule and Mack.