Generation Zero Reviews

Generation Zero is ranked in the 5th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
2 / 10.0
Apr 2, 2019

Generation Zero is a beautiful, broken, and boring jog through 1980s Sweden with a side of stealth and robots.

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2.5 / 10.0
Mar 26, 2019

There are some genuinely cool moments buried among the slop. If this were an Early Access title, I'd be very content saying to keep an eye on it as it nears release. Considering that this game is being released like this, I will instead warn not to waste any money on this unfinished title..

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3 / 10.0
Aug 2, 2019

Generation Zero is an empty, meandering and completely boring experience.

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GameGrin
Top Critic
3 / 10.0
Apr 12, 2019

Periodically beautiful yet consistently broken, Generation Zero's brand of monotonous, sterile and bug-riddled open-world first-person shooting is something that you should avoid at all costs.

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3 / 10.0
Apr 6, 2019

Pointless, shallow and boring. It's really hard to point out what's good in with game.

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TrueGaming
Top Critic
3 / 10.0
Apr 3, 2019

Generation zero is a game that came out from nonentity to simply return to it, even if the Avalanche manage to resolve all the plentiful flaws, this experience will remain as an ideal symbol for emptiness, for boredom and for purposeless

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Apr 9, 2019

Generation Zero holds plenty of promise, but its current state makes it impossible to recommend. From the painful inventory management to the lifeless open world to the haphazard multiplayer, there's little positive to be found here.

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3 / 10
Mar 27, 2019

Even if you're in love with its concept, Generation Zero is an experience you should avoid at all costs. Thanks to archaic co-operative design, an open world that feels sparse at even the best of times, and an inventory system that routinely works against you, disappointment takes centre stage here. You may catch one or two beautiful vistas along the way, but as the framerate drops into the single digits, you'll wish you never bothered.

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35%
Apr 1, 2019

While the apocalypse is traditionally painted in varying shades of drab brown and grey, here it's brought to life in lovely bucolic greens and yellows. This pastoral loveliness doesn't disguise the fact that Generation Zero is unremittingly, cripplingly dull, providing protracted periods of walking vast distances with all-too short bouts of gunplay. How the developer behind Just Cause managed to create this vacuous, pointless game is beyond me.

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3.5 / 10.0
Mar 26, 2019

Generation Zero is a first-person shooter where you try and stay alive in a hostile open-world surrounded by mechanical robots and also where you'll most certainly lose some of your sanity.

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1.8 / 5.0
Apr 1, 2019

I wanted to like this so badly and was truly excited for it. I hate to say this but it is a waste of your time and money. Give this one a miss.

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4 / 10.0
Apr 13, 2019

A great premise that was terribly executed. Generation Zero is painfully boring and repetitive.

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Pixel Arts
Noshin Khalatbari
4 / 10.0
Jun 14, 2019

You have to work hard to love GZ and in the end, you will probably fail. The game, though promising, had an entertaining and lasting effect that could be entertained for hours, but the release now suffers from numerous setbacks, making it impossible to recommend it to anyone. Maybe someday the game will get better, no one knows, but what is clear is Avalanche's mistaken view of a PvE-based game.

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Evan Norris
Top Critic
4 / 10
Apr 7, 2019

Avalanche's successes in world-building and player freedom are significant, but insufficient to turn this love song to 1980s Sweden into a hit.

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4 / 10
Apr 3, 2019

It’s pretty to look at, but is such a jumbled mess and we couldn’t get our heads around it…a bit like their furniture, then.

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Digitally Downloaded
James T
Top Critic
Apr 11, 2019

When I first read the premise of Generation Zero I was intrigued and before I even loaded the game up for the first time I was excited. I wanted to like this game. Unfortunately, the game quickly falls into a beautiful void of its own making.

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4 / 10.0
Apr 2, 2019

At times it’s dreadfully boring; other times it’s wildly exciting. It doesn’t want to make your life easy, but then throws so much resources your way that being downed is trivial. It looks great, but it has a lot of bugs that will only make you able to view the game as ugly.

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4 / 10.0
Mar 28, 2019

A bunch of good ideas and a great setting just don't stand up in the face of terrible execution

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The Outerhaven Productions
Diego Perez
Top Critic
Apr 7, 2019

I went into this game with the highest of hopes and the lowest of expectations. Even with the most open of minds I could possibly muster, it's still difficult to find good things to say about Generation Zero. Overall, Generation Zero's incredible atmosphere, mostly beautiful visuals, and great soundtrack feel wasted alongside countless technical issues, horrendous pacing, unbalanced combat, and an almost nonexistent story.

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4 / 10
Mar 27, 2019

Generation Zero have good ideas and had many arguments in his favour. A context that stands out from the ordinary, robots as enemies, a beautiful day/night cycle. Unfortunately, it's not enough and we clearly can't recommend the game at this stage. The game is EMPTY and the action is too rare, and alos the game have too much bugs.

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