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
MindsEye is definitely an enjoyable adventure if you know what to expect. No, this isn’t a deep open world with a million options and intricate gameplay. It’s a simple shooter set in a cool environment that starts to feel a bit repetitive too quickly, but still delivers some fun, cinematic moments. Anyone fancying a dozen or so hours of cool sci-fi action without too many frills has come to the right place. Anyone expecting freedom of movement, unique high-tech gadgets or a skill tree will be disappointed. MindsEye takes you firmly by the hand, but certainly doesn’t drag you through a river of muck. My play sessions easily lasted several hours.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
To start off the gameplay is way too basic, even by modern standards. You go here shoot some basic enemies, then proceed to drive for ages with no real danger, to only shoot again. Later on even gun fight sections seem to drag out a little too long, which after the first 3 hours I wanted to drop the game. There are a couple of mini-games to break the flow, but even they are far and few between. We don’t get to explore the world and the world itself is lifeless. For the story it was just terrible and a filled with a bunch of silly deus ex machina moments. The plot couldn’t decide what it wanted to do, and chacters never get the development for you to actually care for these people. MindsEyes ending was extremely disappointing, and with the boring and even worse post credit cutscene, I was glad the game was over. Only positives I could say, is that I didn’t suffer one bug that ruined or broke my game. So with all that, I am giving MindsEye the Thumb Culture Bronze Award. For the price they are asking, I would look somewhere else.
MindsEye is a complete disappointment. Despite an engaging audio introduction, everything else collapses: archaic gameplay, pervasive bugs, a confusing story, and subpar performance. Sold at a premium price, this title feels like an unfinished project disguised as a finished product. Best avoided.
Review in French | Read full review
Bubsy leaps back into the spotlight, but nostalgia isn’t enough to save these clunky, outdated adventures.