So, do you like plane rides or traveling over islands that seem uninhabited? Well, what you don't know is that some of those islands are not uninhabited, they are in fact full of blood thirsty cannibals. You must cut trees, kill animals, build shelter...and hide from the man eaters to survive. Are your willing to do that or will you just surrender?
The Forest is a survivalist's dream come true, you crash land on a island and when you wake up you see a mutated human taking a kid, who we assume is the character's, you then pass out and when you wake up again it's time to get moving. The plane has what you need to start out with such as an axe, meds, food, and of course, booze! From here you can head out to the woods, but keep your eyes open for the people of this island because they are not to friendly to outsiders. You must dodge crawlers, leaders and other types of enemies while hunting for food and keep your fire going to avoid the cold. The world is beautiful and you will get lost in the graphics that this developer has created for you. I like to compare this game to a high end, modded Minecraft. Why you ask? Because you need to chop down your trees and you can open up a survival guide (kind of like using NEI in modded Minecraft) to set up schematics for buildings/traps/and other things. You must also hunt for food, build shelter, and make a fire to hold off the deathly creatures that will come for you at night.
Sound wise, the game will scare the crap out of you. It will go from a nice sounding music as you frolic through the forest gathering berries and sticks to "HOLY CRAP YOU HAVE BEEN SPOTTED, RUN!!!" I kid you not when I hear the sound it makes when the enemies spot you outside of the game I jump and nearly poop myself because of it. I have to give the developers credit though because most games I have played lately have not done musically what this game has done, making me feel as though I was the survivor.
Graphically, the game has no equal in the Indie market. It looks as though it was developed by a AAA developer and would even beat some of those companies out easily. The sunsets and sunrises are beautiful, the water moves and looks realistic too. Trees and plants actually look like trees and you can easily tell blueberries from poison berries. Everything you touch will move and ripple as you run screaming by it. Again, all praise goes to the developers for taking the time to make such a beautiful game.
There technically is no story mode yet but single player amounts to a how long can you survive alone type game mode and multiplayer works the same but with the added bonus of having up to 4 friends (if not more in the future.) Multiplayer is more fun in my opinion but I know Zach has liked the singleplayer part of the game. Because the game is still in early alpha, updates continue to come and more and more keep getting added to the game.
The only problems at this point are technical. There has been trouble saving in multiplayer, and the game itself has been prone to a variety of bugs such as enemies and creatures running through walls of rock, sometimes there are trees you cut down that take a long time to turn into logs and once in a great while they don't change at all. Still, this is an early access game, and it feels more like a complete product than anything else I've bought on early access.
All in all, The Forest is amazing for early access title and even beats out a lot of so called "polished" games by big time developers. I certainly have enjoy it, I know Zach does too and a heads up to all our fans that watch the Youtube Channel. Once the next update comes out (within the next two months) we will start a series to see how long the staff of Scully Nerd Reviews can last in a world not suited for us.
Good:
- Beautiful graphics
- Excellent survival mechanics
- Overall feel is that of a realistic and brutal Minecraft
Bad:
- Still some bugs to work out, not all of them minor
Scully Rating: 8.5 out of 10
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