The UI again is fine but sacrifices flashy visuals for a basic and straight-to-the-point approach. They are enough to not be too distracting, but there are some recurring character models, muddy textures and glitches. Visually, this is nothing to write home about, they get the job done but don’t expect to be wowed by impressive pixel counts and cloth textures.
It does make use of a few modern touches and mechanics that improve the overall experience though.
It understandably looks better than a 15-year-old game, but in terms of gameplay and adventure, it has a similar feel, often leaving you to your own devices rather than guiding you through the world from quest to quest. Each civilization feels separate from the others, not just location-wise but in how their town runs and how they initially receive Jax based on past history, whilst also offering unique bonuses and quests depending on your alignment with each faction.įor anyone that hasn’t played the original or any other game from PB, the best way to describe the gameplay and overall feel of ELEX II would be to liken it to a game like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion or more broadly an RPG from the mid-2000s. There are also the Morkons who live secluded underground, the Albs who prioritise laser weapons and energy abilities, and the Clerics who use high-tech robots. Outlaws are as their name implies, a group of people who have abandoned all laws and live only to fend for themselves. Your end goal is to have some of them join your forces for an attack on the new threat to once again bring peace to the world.Įach faction feels unique, all having their own beliefs and way of surviving in the world, such as the Berserkers who are somewhat radical, believing in bringing peace to the land by forgoing technology coupled with powerful magic and a medieval approach. From here, you set out to create a base of operations and find out intel on the other 5 factions in the world. This is the beginning of your journey to expand the 6th Army – the new force to combat the alien race. After being attacked by a new alien threat, you bump into Adam who is able to treat your new infection gained from a bite from one of the aliens.
I have not played the first title so there were some characters and story beats that were a little lost on me, but the game does put some effort into having prior events explained and covered enough for you to get a decent understanding. THQ Nordic said the game's NPCs will remember what you've done and react accordingly, will join or leave your group depending on how you behave, and are able to be killed, which will have an effect on the story.You play as Jax (from the first game), who is now living out in the wilderness on his own before a new alien threat attacks the planet launching him into a new journey to save the world. It falls to Jax to unite these different factions together to face this darkness together." However, our hero - Jax - returns with knowledge of a new menace that's casting a shadow over Magalan. After the defeat of the Hybrid, the Albs are no longer a threat. The Berserkers' attempts to regrow and terraform the lands have started to bear fruit. "The planet Magalan has seen some rather peaceful years after the Events of Elex 1: old factions have been vanquished, new factions have risen. "Hokey, uneven and janky, Elex is nonetheless a compelling throwback to a time before open worlds became choose your own to-do lists," Richie Shoemaker wrote in Eurogamer's Elex review.Įlex 2 returns to the world of Magalan, with "massive environments that can be explored with unrivalled freedom via jetpack". Elex 2 is the sequel to post-apocalyptic sci-fi open-world role-playing game Elex, which Piranha Bytes' released in 2017.
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