Platforms
- PCMar 26, 20196.0playscore5.023 Critics6.812.2K Players
- PlayStation 4Mar 26, 20196.0playscore4.715 Critics7.810.1K Players
- Xbox OneMar 26, 20195.7playscore4.514 Critics6.93.36K Players
38 critic reviews · 1 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Generation was a bit overhyped at first, although it does have this mysterious storyline and beautiful setting in an alternate 1980s theme. With survival in place you must scavenge your way across a large map that is inhabited by dangerous robots that only have one job: take you out. With the game preferring stealth and being passive, it feels that the developers might have skimped on the gunplay for this reason, since it doesn’t control well at all. You will have a lot of items at your disposal for getting away from these hostiles.
MC_JP · Apr 19, 2019 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - This game has so much potential, but it is so barren I can’t recommend it. The visual and audio aesthetic are right up my alley, but I found myself bored. It harkens back to the No Man’s Sky release: plenty of space to do absolutely nothing. This feels like early access, not a full retail release. Skip until they announce any potential updates that add content to this.
Anthony Mann · Apr 10, 2019 Reviewed on XB1Read full review - Generation Zero holds plenty of promise, but its current state makes it impossible to recommend. From the painful inventory management to the lifeless open world to the haphazard multiplayer, there's little positive to be found here.
Eric Hall · Apr 09, 2019 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - Basically then, Generation Zero is a game of extreme peaks of troughs. At times it’s dreadfully boring; other times it’s wildly exciting. It doesn’t want to make your life easy, but then throws so much resources your way that being downed is trivial. It looks great, but it has a lot of bugs that will only make you able to view the game as ugly. Like Marmite, Generation Zero will dramatically split opinion. But it’s not just a matter of taste – Generation Zero‘s glitches and ill-implemented mechanics are just as much to blame.
Richard Seagrave · Apr 02, 2019 Reviewed on XB1Read full review - While the apocalypse is traditionally painted in varying shades of drab brown and grey, here it's brought to life in lovely bucolic greens and yellows. This pastoral loveliness doesn't disguise the fact that Generation Zero is unremittingly, cripplingly dull, providing protracted periods of walking vast distances with all-too short bouts of gunplay. How the developer behind Just Cause managed to create this vacuous, pointless game is beyond me.
Richard Walker · Apr 01, 2019 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - Generation Zero sports many of the components that you would expect to see in an open world shooter with online play. Whilst entertaining in short doses, and fairly interesting when it wants to be, the whole ordeal has a tendency of being massively undermined by its poor design choices and its several technical issues. Indeed, it’s a serviceable loot shooter at its core, but the developer really should have held the game to a much higher standard.
Anthony Cole · Mar 31, 2019 Reviewed on XB1Read full review - Generation Zero is the Wonder Bread of video games. It’s solid and does what it does well, but it lacks any sort of excitement and will probably expire soon.
Corey Gavaza · Mar 29, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Even if you’re in love with its concept, Generation Zero is an experience you should avoid at all costs. Thanks to archaic co-operative design, an open world that feels sparse at even the best of times, and an inventory system that routinely works against you, disappointment takes centre stage here. You may catch one or two beautiful vistas along the way, but as the framerate drops into the single digits, you’ll wish you never bothered.
Liam Croft · Mar 27, 2019 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - Generation Zero isn't very good, but I do keep coming back to it. There's something about that world that makes me want to spend time there, even if all I'm doing is killing robots and picking up the same old loot from the same old houses, over and over again, forever. With updates it has the potential to mutate into something far more interesting, but for now it's an impressive setting with a slight and uninspired shooter squeezed rather clumsily into it.
Andy Kelly · Mar 27, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Generation Zero has a neat idea that feels like it wanted to be something else and settled for coming out half-cooked. My co-op partner even asked me if I was sure this was not still in Early Access. I don’t know how much they plan on adding, but with a little work Generation Zero could be a lot more fun. For now, Sweden is on its own.
Stephen Wilds · Mar 27, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review
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About the game
Trailers & Screenshots:
Experience an explosive game of cat and mouse set in a vast open world. In this reimagining of 1980’s Sweden, hostile machines have invaded the serene countryside. Go it alone, or team-up with up to three of your friends in seamless co-op multiplayer. Utilize guerilla tactics and fight back!
Developer: Avalanche Studios