My main issue with the game is the animation. The island itself is beautiful, stars lighting up the sky at night and sunsets worth watching. I explored to my heart’s content, finding journal entries that gave me clues to the island’s existence and new materials that helped me craft better weapons and armor. While starting out was a struggle, I enjoyed how free the gameplay was. I struggled a bit with discovering the best ways to equip myself for the dangers ahead of me, and knowing where I wanted to explore. Few directions are given, so starting out is a major uphill battle. Radiation, bleeding, broken bones, and drowning are also really easy ways to die if you aren’t careful, and I was not particularly careful when I first started exploring the island. The temperature drops, and if you aren’t careful you can freeze to death. Animals are less wary of your presence and attack more freely. Many challenges face you when night falls. The mini-tutorial at the beginning helped me get equipped with some food and bare essentials to craft crude weapons, and then I was on my own. Crocodiles lurk in the water while wolves, bears, and mountain lions roam the lush green landscape of the island. Right away, I realized how frightfully unequipped I was for life on Radiation Island. Washed up on shore after a strange occurrence on the Devil’s Sea, your character begins with nothing but the clothes on his back and the strange, surreal music of the island in his ears. Radiation Island is a wide-open survival game that doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to its realism.
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