Extinction

Thanks to a nuanced combat system, Extinction is fun hack ‘n’ slash experience whose poorly executed story and repetitive mission design stops it from being memorable for all the right reasons.

Fighting enormous enemies in games has been a time-honored tradition for the whole span of the medium. There’s just something so satisfying about taking down someone who’s several times bigger than you. It makes you feel like a god, like an actual hero. Extinction looks to capture that same feeling in a huge, shambling way.

Extinction is a sword-slinging, monster-decapitating action game that does a decent job of getting the blood pumping and reflexes twitching. The eye-catching, anime-inspired art will even give you some nice scenery to do it all in. It just never rises to be much more than that, and all the while it’s inviting comparisons to other games that do. Extinction lands in that awkward position where, yeah, it’s usually fun - but you’re not really missing anything incredible by giving it a pass.

Simple, but solid gameplay bogged down by repetitive randomly generated mission

Extinction takes inspiration from some incredible games in the genre, such as God of War and Devil May Cry -- but sadly, it fails to improve upon any of them.

You better have to choose if it’s worth spending your spare cash, because it might not be the game for you and it might be for others.

Extinction's core gameplay loop is alright for what it is, but it doesn't support the rickety structure built on top of it. Boring story beats, repetitive voice clips and randomized missions make me classify this campaign as obsolete.

When Extinction presents its large ogre titans, you get an inkling of what could have been. Instead, randomization and procedural generation rule the core gameplay and feel to really liven up what's a generally below average story, combat and world.

Extinction is a tough sell at its current price point of $60. If you enjoy killing giant monsters, wait for a massive price drop or pick up Attack on Titan 2 instead.

Extinction is a game that has large ambitions, but fails to be as exciting as it could have been. The Revanii look imposing, but are less threatening than the smaller enemies that accompany them, and with a mixture of lacklustre storytelling, repetitive action and some technical issues, Extinction end up a remarkably average title.

Extinction had so much potential. The concept of bouncing swiftly from tree to tree, scaling walls with intense speed and using your grappling hook to swing your way into a decapitating blow on a 150 foot ogre trying to destroy a city you’re desperate to protect sounds so good on paper. It sounds like it’s heavily inspired by some source material such as Attack on Titan and Shadow of the Colossus with its focus on taking down such gigantic beasts, but if done properly could have resulted ...

When you’re done with the campaign there are various game-modes to play around in if you want to keep hacking away at Ravenii. The first up is the daily challenge which as you can expect delivers a new challenge to the community every day. As a leaderboard sucker it’s been nice being near the top and look forward to comparing scores with my friends. Extinction is your typical “survive as long as possible” mode where the game will just continue to toss increasingly more difficult waves of enemies at you until you bite it. Finally there’s Skirmish where the game will randomize a seed code that w...