Review Fort Solis PS5 Glitzy Walking Sim Disappoints
In space no one can here you snooze.
There is something calming about a clichéd sci-fi horror, isn’t there? Abandoned space stations, eerie corridors, and the endless possibilties of danger make up a genre that has successfully infiltrated just about every format of entertainment. Fort Solis is just the latest, bringing with it a subdued sci-fi tale, voice acting royalty in the form of Roger Clark (Red Dead Redemption 2) and Troy Baker (The Last of Us), and a gameplay experience that is in parts enthralling and others excruciatingly tedious.
As we first walked the halls of the titular Fort Solis we couldn’t help but be reminded of sci-fi movie classics such as Sunshine, Moon, and even Event Horizon. Responding to a mysterious distress signal, engineer Jack Leary (Clark) makes his way to the Martian station to investigate. With its slow pacing and attention to detail, we were already on edge. Not because of anything we were seeing, but the possibility of what we were missing.
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