Elex 2 Finished, I liked it a lot, and I think it’s a great game but it’s a step below Elex 1.
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Technically Elex 2 is superior in graphics, textures and modeling, but it feels more generic than Elex 1.
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The faces of the characters in the story are cloned to the random NPCs. The armor and weapons also feel more poorly designed.
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In Elex 1 there were more elements that gave personality to the world. Ships, energy shields, tanks on the roads!!elevators, more cinematics, big battle events between two sides, weapons had ammo types….
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The world had more variety and color.
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And above all the world building, for example the throne of the berserkers in elex 1 is very nice and original, the interior of the enemy bases, the cities of the factions, the big domes that protected the Clreics etc… in Elex 2 you feel that there is no special place, all are constantly repeated assets.
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Tons of the same junks item everywhere.
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When you pass the game especially chapter 4 and its boring missions of killing hundreds of enemies, you realize that the game has been finished in a hurry.
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The factions feel different. For example there are no comments about berserkers and their hatred of technology. Clerics do nothing, and seem to be a faction that the developers haven’t finished working on. The albos look very basic and there is not much of a moral dilemma with the taking of elex. And the outlaws and Morkonos, who cares, they are just factions that seem to be out of the context of the overall situation.
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No dungeons.
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In elex 2 the computers and screens are turned off, even with people supposedly working on them. They don’t even have a random texture from a TV or a PC. In elex 1 the clerics’ screens showed their logo, or computers destktop etc…
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Many parts of the map are left over because they are empty and have nothing, no missions or events that happen in the area. I have finished the game with all the quests and there are a lot of parts of the map totally wasted.
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The factions and the world do not evolve throughout the chapters.
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Bad world design and its rewards. High level enemy zones, with rewards for new players.
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In elex 1 everything related to the ancient world is much more mysterious and interesting. For example the god Calaan and the whole story is great. In elex 2 there is no mysticism or mystery in anything.
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I don’t know how to explain it, but I think the more realistic aspect of the game has made it lose some of the essence that the more colorful world of 1 had.
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I would have preferred a smaller but deeper map. Outside of the cities there are barely a couple of quests or npc’s.
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The Morkons feel like a very basic faction with the Outlaws, they could have invented a more original faction.
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Even so I really liked the game but I put it below Elex 1.
Despite all this, I really enjoyed the game, the characters and the missions. A totally recommended game.I hope they don’t make an Elex 3 and they get into a new project and that THQ gives them more budget, although seeing the very low sales that Elex 2 has had, who knows what is the future of the company.
Sorry for my English =)