Menu

Post image 1
Post image 2
Post image 3
Post image 4
1 / 4
0

After an hour in the beta, The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is both a limp Mass Effect and a leaden interpretation of a very good TV show

Rock Paper Shotgun·Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·about 1 month ago
#aDO9o4u8
Reading 0:00
15s threshold

Image credit: Owlcat Games / Rock Paper Shotgun It's early days for The Expanse: Osiris Reborn , but I can say confidently after an hour with a beta version that I don't want to have sex with anybody in it. The TV show (I've not read the books – bite me, beltalowda) has a terrific cast of seasoned character actors portraying cheesy, hard-wearing oddballs from all around a colonised, fiercely class-divided solar system. Owlcat's third-person RPG adaptation is set alongside the events of the show's first season, and you catch wind of the Canterbury's destruction and mysterious events on Eros in newscasts, while exploring the beta level: a wheel-shaped Pinkwater mercenary spacebase off the shoulder of Jupiter. It certainly has the 'hard scifi' texture of the Expanse.…

Continue reading — create a free account

Join HashtagPLUS to read full articles, follow hashtags, vote, and join the conversation.

Read More