MindsEye Reviews
Although it shows some early promise, MindsEye is sunk by a ridiculous story, inconsistent writing, poorly designed mission scenarios, and utterly atrocious combat.
When its performance is stable and you’re explosively blasting your way through robots, MindsEye can masquerade as a serviceable action shooter for a few minutes at a time. Its near-future setting and driving feel also impress.
Even as a 8-10 hour campaign, MindsEye feels longer than it needs to be.
MindsEye is a stringent and relentlessly dull video game, wasting its impressive world on formulaic mission design that's both archaic and uninspired.
This expensive, oddball game from a former GTA producer commits the ultimate sin: It's boring
MindsEye isn’t a “so bad it’s good” situation. It’s just bad in a mundane, uninteresting way.
MindsEye is a baffling, busted shooter that squanders a campy sci-fi premise.
MindsEye intrigues with its cyber-noir atmospheres but stumbles on many, too many of its promises. Everywhere you look while walking through Redrock City, you see an ambitious action game that shoots for the stars but ends up crashing to the ground.
Review in Italian | Read full review
MindsEye is a broken, boring mess of a game that has somehow been allowed out in the world. It has little glimmers of something semi-entertaining in there with its cutscenes and story, but it's bogged down by a vapid large scale map that is at odds with its aggressively linear campaign, and padded out with a dull repetitive gameplay loop that is nothing short of archaic.
This is absolutely not how one should present oneself to gamers. Moving on to the sound department, the acting performances are generally good but the musical accompaniment is completely anonymous .
Review in Italian | Read full review
MindsEye is a disaster in every sense of the word, and is going to do little more than become a guide in everything you should avoid in game design.
MindsEye promises a mind-bending sci-fi thriller, but delivers little more than a broken, bloated slog stuck in the past.
MindsEye is an excellent example of style over substance, a game that falls apart the moment you start playing.
A completely revamped and improved game that manages to salvage the experience
MindsEye has high ambitions and a stylish setting, but the game suffers from dated mechanics, poor AI, and a non-reactive world. Despite its strong visuals, it's unfinished at nearly every level.
MindsEye is one of few games in gaming industry, we wished would have never been made...
Review in Persian | Read full review
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Review in Czech | Read full review
MindsEye is a colossal disappointment — it promises a modern action experience from the GTA mastermind but delivers a technically broken, content-empty and gameplay-dated product that Benzies' reputation cannot save.
Review in German | Read full review
Although MindsEye was considered a failure at launch, the game has now been revived through continuous updates. Of course, it's still walking a fine line, and some issues remain. However, given its engaging and entertaining story, these problems can be overlooked, and it's worth experiencing at least once. This game will certainly appeal to fans of the action-adventure genre.
Review in Persian | Read full review
While I’m not about to pretend that MindsEye is secretly a masterpiece, I think saying that it’s one of the worst games ever made is stretching it a little far. I know we’re in an age where everything has to be either one extreme or another, but there’s a massive range in between those two poles, and MindsEye fits somewhere along that spectrum.