Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops Critic Reviews

With Shadow Harvest the developers bit off more than they could chew. Such a porject would have needed more ressources to be successful. The potential for that lies hidden deep inside the game.

It's not a terrible game, but it is a deeply average one.

Boring and buggy third-person-action-adventure that features two different characters, one action-focus the other one stealthy. But the much too hard difficulty level and the more than stupid AI tear every bit of fun out of Shadow Harvest.

A ho-hum action game that despite its bang and bluster fails even to achieve mediocrity. It promises what looks like an interesting stealth/shooter mechanic but never lives up to it, settling instead for an approach that's linear and predictably formulaic.

Sometimes combining disparate elements can result in a product whose value is greater than the sum of the parts. Other times, not so much. Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops showed promise in the premise but completely fails to fulfill its mission.

Black Lion, I understand and partially sympathize with your desire to bring some fundamentals back to the shooter genre. I just didn't know you were going to be quite so literal and actually make a game that would have been bad even in 2004.

Stupid AI and sluggish performance are just two of the many problems that plague Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops.

Shadow Harvest will only bring pain and suffering into your life. Avoid it at all costs.

It's not even remotely close to being fun, and serves as a fine example of how not to make an action game.

It's frustrating, derivative, at times nearly unplayable, and frustrating.

Black Lion took a bite of something that they could now chew – a tactical stealth action game. And instead of a generic by-the-numbers shooter, they spewed out a piece of garbage, complete with poor graphics, amoeba-like AI and a horrendously dumb story.

A terrible shooter and a terrible stealth game all in one!