Syberia 3 Critic Reviews

Syberia 3 brings back, in a very beautiful way, the genre of the graphic adventure. It has some performance issues and frame-drops, but everyone who loves the genre should give it a try.

A great return of the saga Syberia, turning into a trilogy one of the best graphic adventures of all time. Despite its technical problems, which we hope will soon be solved by a patch, this title will appeal to fans of the wonderful world of Benoît Sokal as well as newcomers, who will put themselves into the shoes of the insightful Kate Walker to solve all Enigmas on the tour accompanying the youkol tribe in their spiritual migration.

Technical issues aside, we've really enjoyed Syberia 3, thanks to its good story, memorable characters, clever puzzles and an outstanding art direction.

At the end of it all, yes. There were quite a few things in this installment that could have driven me batty — had I allowed them to do so. Will I play it again? Maybe not, but know knows? I might change my mind once I have played the first and second installments. The beautiful reality of Syberia 3 is that I didn’t need to know what happened beforehand in the franchise. If you play for release, for freedom that you don’t have in a normal, boring life — and if you can look past some rough handling -- Syberia 3 is for you.

Syberia 3 may have some touching moments and interesting characters, as well as puzzles consistent with the game's lore, but questionable gameplay choices, technical issues and a weak ending that doesn't offer any conclusion, leave a lot to be desired.

Fans of the previous 2 games may have enough love banked for the series to carry them through this release. For anyone else I would suggest finding a different adventure game.

Syberia 3 arrived too early. It's an adventure with a soul that wants to share a great story with us all. So why, oh why, do I get so angry with this game? I played it, I was amazed, I was furious, I forgave it, and then I played it again. Hopefully some serious patches will fix the most pressing issues and the game will become great again.

Quotation forthcoming.

Syberia 3 is appealing to the fans of this IP, but newcomers will be shocked by the technical issues that makes the game unimmersive and quite frankly, difficult to play with those awful controls.

A sloppy sequel to a great game marred with decade-old problems.

Technically Syberia 3 is pretty bad, but that's something we can easily put aside. The real problem of Syberia 3 is that - after a promising start - it gets stuck between nostalgia and the inability to truly renovate itself.

There’ll always be a time and a place for a game like Syberia 3. While not all of the tradition of its previous mid-2000 ventures have translated well into the modern age, Kate Walker’s third outing in this subtly steampunk universe, if sporting a few technical faults and some fairly sub-par voice acting, holds up well enough in its gameplay to warrant a playthrough. Microïds may not be looking to radically shift the formula from what came before all those years ago and while at points its controls clearly show an unpleasant age to itself, the charm of its aesthetic not to mention the design of puzzles in parts keeps Syberia 3 firmly away from the gated-off litter of games often referred to as sequels we never asked for. There may not be as huge or as lucrative a demand here, but the adventure undertaken — after fourteen years of wait for some — is a satisfactory but modest one all the same.

Syberia 3 is filled with point and click clichés, and it does so in a very uninspired, nonchalant way. The controls are bad, the dialogue is meh and the repetitiveness of the quests is even worse. The one thing we really enjoy is the setting.

Even if you disregard the substandard graphics, the glitches, the stuttering, the poor performance and the terrible controlling through a “modernized” disastrous movement system, it is difficult to disregard that the plot carries no substance at all, with no connection to the past, no goal real pushing you forward and no ending. Syberia ended 13 years ago and this new sequel, while it carries some moments of magic, is too poorly executed to stand next to the large name it carries.

Syberia 3 tries too hard to be a worthy new chapter in Kate Walker’s series, but it’s frustrating and disappointingly flawed.

Syberia 3 is a game to avoid. It has no redeeming qualities — whether you’re a fan of the series or not — and it’s not worth anything close to its bloated retail price. Just stay away, please, so Microids doesn’t get any ideas about subjecting us to a Syberia 4 (or maybe IV, since they seem to be alternating their numbering scheme).

A shameful ending to a beloved series.

At the end of the day, playing Syberia 3 is an exercise in patience that’s hardly worth the effort. With bad writing, immersion killing issues such as bad English voice acting, unresponsive controls and general lack of polish, there’s almost no reason for adventure games fans to pick up Syberia 3. Puzzles are the only saving grace of a game that definitely required more time in the oven.

An adventure game with clever puzzles and a nice story that stumbles over bad technical quirks and out-of-date graphics.

A nice story and a solid atmosphere cannot save what’s otherwise a terrible game, riddled with bugs, stupid gameplay choices, bad graphics and other grievous problems. Unless you are a die-hard fan of the series, stay away.