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Rating of
2/5
Collecting Dust
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 12/07/2014
I am not a fan of Ubisoft, nor its stable of uninspired IPs. However, sometimes even one of the Big Three “AAA” publishers produces something outside of their mainstream wheelhouse that catches my eye. I’m not even a particular fan of the God-Game sub-genre of Simulation games, but I have enough nostalgia for it that I was willing to give “From Dust” a shot.
Presentation
“From Dust” is thoroughly mediocre in most areas of its presentation, and sub-par in others. The graphics engine is really nothing spectacular for a modern 3D game. Worst of all, the graphcs engine produces a significant amount of screen tearing, which cannot be resolved using any of the in-game menu options. Instead, I had to max-out all of the frame buffering features in my Steambox’s nVidia control …
