{"id":6502,"date":"2018-11-24T22:12:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T06:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cpgaming.gg\/?p=6502"},"modified":"2023-11-30T17:36:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T01:36:55","slug":"deep-rock-galactic-early-access-review-a-brilliant-wave-based-shoot-em-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/deep-rock-galactic-early-access-review-a-brilliant-wave-based-shoot-em-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Rock Galactic (Early Access) Review \u2013 A Brilliant Wave-Based Shoot \u2018Em Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deep Rock Galactic<\/strong>
\nGhost Ship Games\/Coffee Stain Publishing<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Deep Rock Galactic<\/em> first debuted back in February of 2018, it totally caught me off guard. Although I thought the title of the game was catchy, the graphics looked really bogus as far as I was concerned. They had a blocky, bulky aesthetic that made the characters, monsters, and various environments contained within it come off as cartoonish and perhaps aimed towards tweens and younger crowds.<\/p>\n

A little later, after watching some gameplay videos and reading the overwhelmingly positive reviews that sprang up around the title, I decided to give it a whirl just to see what all of the fuss was about. All I can say is that I\u2019m glad I did.<\/p>\n

\"1\"<\/p>\n

Deep Rock Galactic<\/em> puts you into the well-worn boots of dwarven miners somewhere in the far future. You can choose from one of four classes which all have their own individual strengths and weaknesses. Some of these classes really complement each other during gameplay, such as the Gunner being able to fire his zipline gun at elevated positions, while the Engineer can shoot giant platforms to stand upon once you travel up those handy ziplines.<\/p>\n

The whole premise of Deep Rock Galactic<\/em> is that your batch of stubby miners work for some sort of large mining company, and they can take dangerous mining jobs of varying difficulty based on different types of planets.<\/p>\n

Some of these planets planets are cold, arctic affairs with stalactites and stalagmites that can harm you. Others are gaseous, poisonous worlds where you might touch deadly spores which releases noxious clouds that can quickly envelop you. Usually, the more dangerous the planet, the larger the amount of \u201cshiny things\u201d (i.e. valuable ore) that are available on them to dig up.<\/p>\n

\"2\"<\/p>\n

The pacing of Deep Rock Galactic<\/em> is excellent. The majority of your time spent down upon on one of these dangerous worlds will be spent looking for specific veins of ore that you are tasked with finding. Once you locate said ore, you pull out your drills and commence to drilling. When you fill your drill bags up with ore and they become full, you can then call over your trusty, robotic mule and dump all your valuables into it.<\/p>\n

All of this ore collecting is interspersed with lots of chaos. That\u2019s because at certain intervals your scouts will suddenly announce that they\u2019ve detected a large swarm of hostile aliens that are heading in your direction. When that happens, you have to drop whatever you\u2019re doing and set yourselves up for the battle ahead. That said, it\u2019s never easy.<\/p>\n

These alien swarms can include all manner of dangerous creatures\u2014from little, ankle-biting critters that sort of resemble the Tyranids of the Warhammer: 40,000 universe; to gigantic, lumbering space beetles that can munch you to shreds. They\u2019ll even throw huge, flying mosquito monsters at you that make fighting from an elevated position irrelevant.<\/p>\n

\"3\"<\/p>\n

Sometimes these swarms are large, while other times they are absolutely gigantic. The latter ones will make you feel as though you\u2019re playing through one of the Starship Troopers novels or films because you\u2019ll have to fight off wave after wave of these horrific beasts.<\/p>\n

Luckily, if you gather up enough of a certain ore you can call in resupply drops. These drops can feel as if they\u2019re falling down from heaven. During some particularly harrowing games, I\u2019ve personally been on my last bit of ammo (or have totally run out) and have barely managed to call in a drop just in the nick of time.<\/p>\n

One of the most recent additions to the Deep Rock Galactic<\/em> is called Update 19: Guns! Lots of Guns!<\/em> and brings with it a whole new slew of weapons to play with. Actually, each of the four classes gets two shiny new guns added to their arsenals.<\/p>\n

\"4\"<\/p>\n

For example, my favorite class, the Engineer, gets the \u201cStubby Voltaic SMG,\u201d which is rapid-firing prototype SMG which fires electric bullets. Engineers also get the Breach Cutter, a weapon that \u201creleases directional blasts of sonically-charged plasma powerful enough to deal with most any alien in your path.\u201d Sounds pretty nifty, huh?<\/p>\n

All of these new weapons really add a lot more diversity to the game and changes things up for the better.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a Left 4 Dead or Vermintide-type of experience, Deep Rock Galactic<\/em> is a great take on the genre. It\u2019s also highly polished already for an Early Access title and is only getting better with time.<\/p>\n

SCORE: 85%<\/p>\n

Deep Rock Galactic <\/em>features pretty great graphics that make its alien wave survival gameplay truly shine. However, you want to have a pretty beefy gaming PC or gaming laptop in order to play it at a decent framerate. So, you may just want to invest in a decent gaming rig:<\/p>\n

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Deep Rock Galactic Ghost Ship Games\/Coffee Stain Publishing When Deep Rock Galactic first debuted back in February of 2018, it totally caught me off guard. Although I thought the title of the game was catchy, the graphics looked really bogus as far as I was concerned. They had a blocky, bulky aesthetic that made the… Read More »Deep Rock Galactic (Early Access) Review \u2013 A Brilliant Wave-Based Shoot \u2018Em Up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2732],"tags":[2520,741,2488,2527,1225,67,2486,2681,2602],"class_list":["post-6502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","tag-4k-gaming","tag-cyberpower-pc","tag-game-review","tag-game-reviews-2","tag-gaming-laptop","tag-gaming-pc","tag-ian-kane","tag-mining-games","tag-survival-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6507,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions\/6507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}