Extinction
Top 5 Worst Games of Q2 2018
If you play 15 minutes of Extinction you’ll have experienced virtually everything the game has to offer. Arrive in town, free hostages and kill a big ogre before a certain percentage of the town is destroyed; rinse, repeat. Nothing about the gameplay is particularly fun, save perhaps for the novelty of its traversal. Its big showpiece, the Shadow of the Colossus-style scaling and decapitating of giant-scale Ogres, is almost always frustrating, and elsewhere the combat is limited and doesn’t require any finesse.
Worse yet, the entire premise is a shameless copy. Rather than developer Iron Galaxy flexing its creative muscles during the inception of its first unique IP, Extinction is a quite blatant Attack on Titan clone —except far less interesting. There’s a budget feel to the whole experience that permeates virtually every aspect of its design. Suffice to say, I didn’t score it particularly high in my review.
