5/5/2023 0 Comments The falconeer review![]() ![]() From incredible storms to jaw dropping sunsets and sunrises, The Falconeer is a gloriously beautiful game that has a tremendous musical score. Soaring high above the world or dive bombing and flying just above the water is a wonderful joy at times. You pilot on the back of a giant Warbird as you fly and explore the world taking on missions and the open world element and freedom is where the art style helps bring this world to life. You as the player, take the role of a protector of one of the factions, with other “chapters” having you fly on behalf of another faction for that chapter. Set in the world of The Great Ursee, a world that is mostly covered in water with four factions on islands making up the political war that is currently wreaking havoc in the world. I do have to begin by just applauding the visuals and art style of The Falconeer especially playing this on an Xbox Series S as well as an Xbox One X. It also offered a rare chance to see the very big difference that going from a big budget, big developer team produced game like Star Wars Squadrons to a much smaller scale single developer team with a much smaller budget with The Falconeer can be and yet there are times when The Falconeer manages to outdo what Squadrons accomplished and, in some areas, failed in the same ways. I also arrived at playing The Falconeer are several joyful months of playing EA’s Star Wars Squadrons so it was actually rather nice to find another albeit indie attempt to keep the genre alive and kicking. The Falconeer is truly ambitious and in many ways, it manages to give an experience that some AAA Games have failed to deliver but it also has some flaws and issues that show the problems when it is a very small team, or in this case just one person, trying to make a complete video game come to life.Īt its core, The Falconeer is an open-world air combat game with a huge focus on the dog fighting style of aerial combat, which is a style of flying game I have loved for many generations from Star Fox to Wing Commander. That in itself is just a staggering fact to take into account even before you hit that start button. Before I head into talking about the game it needs to be said that this entire game is the brainchild and hard work of just one person, not a big developer team with a massive budget but the sole work of just one person.
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