Ravenfield is a bizarre mix of Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator and Battlefield. It blends deeply customisable NPC battles with actual first person shooter gameplay on wide, open maps with poor graphics. It's only been on Steam for a short while, but has already drummed up a lot of interest from gamers. Despite looking terrible it's received more than 90 percent positive reviews, so what is this game all about?
It's a cartoony, single player take on a multiplayer shooter and as the god of the world, as well as a player in it, you can spawn as many AI soldiers as your PC can handle. There are vehicles, explosives, rifles, pistols and bases to capture. They all look poor, but that's part of the cartoony charm of the game. It's almost being made by one man, so is an ambitious project, despite having been in development for quite some time already.
That said, it's an extremely buggy experience. As the Kotaku presenter shows in the above video, sometimes your guns don't fire, sometimes you get stuck in buildings or the floor and the AI can't do much at all but slam vehicles into each other and occasionally hit one another with their guns, but the overall experience is still quite impressive.
The game can support hundreds of soldiers at once and that makes the game feel rather epic, despite how janky it is.
You can buy Ravenfield on Steam now for $12, though remember it's still very early in development.
