Tokyo 42 Reviews
Entertaining in bits, but ultimately more frustrating at times, Tokyo 42 is a cool game setting that needs a fixed camera and some tighter controls.
Tokyo 42 represents a genre of simple action-packed games. While it wildly differs from likes of Hotline Miami, it gives similar experience. It features great shootouts, simple logic and spatial puzzles, but most often combines most of them making shootouts puzzles themselves. It's cool open world game. It will overload your brain with futuristic Japanese style and death, mostly death.
Review in Polish | Read full review
There is a lot that goes wrong with Tokyo 42. This was a concept that had so much promise but is held back by terrible design choices and technical issues.
A beautiful game that falls flat on its gameplay once you surpass its first few hours.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Inspired by masterpieces like Syndicate and GTA, Tokyo 42 is both fascinating and imperfect. This frenetic shooter is set in a futuristic metropolis, dominated by violence and pop-culture.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Tokyo 42 is a refreshing take on the action/stealth genre.
Tokyo 42 is fresh and exciting game that combines a few simple ideas. And in our time of clones and the annual blockbusters this is simply priceless, so it is highly recommend you to try.
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While I was originally extremely excited for Tokyo 42's stylistic cyberpunk world, I found myself dreading it after an hour or two. The city may look great, but it gets in the way of the game itself. Combine this with a poor aiming system, crazy difficulty spikes, and an uninteresting multiplayer, and you're left with a game that rarely manages to be enjoyable.
Tokyo 42 looks amazing and it’s often fun to play, but a few key issues drag down the experience quite a bit. While the game’s stealth systems are well done and the faction mechanics and open ended design can generate truly exciting moments, everything comes tumbling down when vehicles are involved, due to clunky camera movement and unresponsive controls.
With a unique style and a large list of things to do, Tokyo 42 only falls short in some of its core mechanics, which can be a bit too tedious for some
Tokyo 42 has a lot of potential, and moments of greatness where it can deliver satisfying action, but unfortunately gets bogged down by an annoying camera and notable structure issues and technical snafus.
Tokyo 42 offers a stylish, polished, well-presented open world that's unfortunately just not an awful lot of fun to do anything in. A few nice touches put a spark in its heart, but they can't light up the overall experience.
Tokyo 42, despite its faults, is a fun game to play but ultimately feels like a massive missed opportunity.
As an experience, Tokyo 42 is worth your attention, but unfortunately, its gameplay and mission design become a hindrance as you progress, losing the spectacle that was notable from the start. It might at times feel reductive due to heavy reliance on other references, but it does manage to construct an identity of its own in spite of this. Tokyo of 2042 provides plenty of distractions, and it’s likely that it is this that will help it stand out amongst its contemporaries.
Tokyo 42 is a solid game held back from greatness by a couple of quirks in its design.
42 does an amazing job of creating a big world that doesn't feel overwhelming, it just needs a little more polish with the gunplay.
A gorgeously stylised cyberpunk action/stealth game in the vein of Syndicate, with lots to like but issues with execution dragging it down.
Despite its niggles, Tokyo 42 is quite simply absolutely fantastic. I cannot wait to see what SMAC Games have for us next.
There's something about Tokyo 42 that makes it quite engrossing. Playing it often feels like hard work due to the annoying camera, but it's strangely rewarding.
With engaging combat and a story to accompany it, Tokyo 42 is a great addition to the ID@Xbox program.