Soviet gulags were probably more punishing than You Are Empty, but GameSpot are not taking any bets:
"It's hard to imagine how anybody could make the Stalin-era Soviet Union less appealing than it was in reality, but You Are Empty sure does the trick. However, it's not the game's setting in an alt-history 1950's USSR 'overrun by mutant communists' that pulls off this nifty trick; it's the gameplay itself. This painful exercise in shooter stupidity from Moscow-based Digital Spray Studios is as pleasant as a gulag getaway, an atrocity that will make buyers wish that their wallets had been empty when they took this package up to the cash register."
It's a new day, which means it's time for an indie bundle of some sort. Today brings a new Indie Gala bundle. For $1, you can get You Are Empty and Trine, while those spending more than about $6 presently get Cities in Motion, Deponia, Magicka, and Painkiller Black.
What exactly Digital Spray was hoping to accomplish with You Are Empty is anyone's guess. It's like Serious Sam and Painkiller purged of all their entertaining bits and Doom-era progression structure pressed on top of it all. You get key retrieval sequences, monster closets where you can actually see the monsters pop into existence, poor shooting mechanics, and a perplexingly limited assortment of weaponry. There's nothing exciting or satisfying about it.
Dated linear shootery. Rubbish floaty weapons. Enemies with no AI bar the ability to spawn round a corner, squawk and run at you head-on. Awful translation. A skill requirement of zero suddenly becomes a bullet landslide. Level design so formulaic it could have been created by a Travelodge architect. The list goes on and on...
I remember seeing a video for this ages ago and thinking "WOW". Hopefully it will be out soon.
GAMESPOT just proved why they are irrelevant...........LOL!!!!!! !
Some people will actually ENJOY this game, and nobody will ever enjoy being in a GULAG thats for sure.
Gamespot, is video games anwser to Jay Sherman (The Critic).
It Stinks!!