Players criticized The Callisto Protocol, in the reviews from the press, too, not everything is smooth

Published by 02 Dec, 2022 0 likes

Reviews of The Callisto Protocol have appeared online.

The new space horror from Dead Space co-author Glen Schofield was rated an average of 75 out of 100, according to the estimates taken into account on the OpenCritic aggregator.

The reviews write: IGN - 7/10 "The Callisto Protocol is quite a satisfying dark spiritual heir to the Dead Space series, but ultimately we are facing a bright modern mimicry rather than a new terrible mutation."

PC Gamer - 79/100 "The dark and harsh The Callisto Protocol does not change the formula of horror for survival, but uses all its hackneyed themes and cliches, telling a dark sci-fi story that smells of danger."

GameInformer - 6/10 "If you wanted something more from a new attempt to create a new sci-fi IP in the genre of survival horror or something noticeably different that would confirm how far games have gone since 2008, The Callisto Protocol is not your choice."

GameStop - 5/10 "Despite a strong start, The Callisto Protocol's focus on spectacular action does not allow the horror essence of the game to be properly revealed and overloads the weak combat mechanics."

PCGamesN - 9/10 "The spiritual heir of Dead Space, which combines the ideas of the best horror films of recent years, although there is a single minor flaw in it, manifested in a weak plot."

Xbox Achievements - 80% "Relentlessly cruel and creepy survival horror that builds tension from the very beginning and does not weaken until the end.

The Callisto Protocol is an excellent thing, mandatory for everyone who was at least a little fascinated by Dead Space and similar games."

TheGamer - 2, 5/5 "It's a pity that The Callisto Protocol turned out to be inherently so uninteresting.

Although the game looks great at first glance, a dozen hours spent in it did not bring anything special."

Push Square - 7/10 "The Callisto Protocol is a consistently good game, which in its best moments is not inferior to many great survival horror films, but one cannot ignore the fact that there is very little in it that could be called truly special."

The players, in turn, had a much worse opinion of The Callisto Protocol, mainly due to optimization problems and a lot of technical bugs. On Steam, the game now collects mostly negative reviews.

The user rating is only 27%. What players write on Steam: "Optimization is like this: Who's where, and I didn't enter into the deal"; "

If you take it, then only at a discount";"- Striking Distance Studios, and optimization will come out? -

No, she is punished"; "Friezes and lags are solid. Played, thanks";"It is impossible to play on RTX 3080 Ti. . . .

FPS jumps from 140 to 15. Lags, lags, lags. . .

If they fix it ************, I will change the review. In the meantime, alas and ah. . .

negative";"Well, such a thing: The graphics are not optimized at all, FPS jumps from 60 to 15 and back. And this is on RTX 3090? !

";"I do not recommend buying this piece of non-optimized code that developers give out for the game.

Literally the whole atmosphere of horror disappears due to performance problems, and changing settings does not affect anything"; "I should have called the game Dead Optimization"; "Negative for such optimization.

We are waiting for the patch, but for now it is unplayable"; "Exclusive console optimization is something new."