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#FIREWATCH GAME RATING MAC#

Living, breathing characters brought to life by Cissy Jones (The Walking Dead: Season 1) and Rich Sommer (Mad Men).

Secrets and discoveries to be made over every hill.

A tailor-made story: the choices you make shape the narrative and build relationships.

A stunningly beautiful wilderness environment that expands as you explore.

But when something strange draws you out of your lookout tower and into the forest, you’ll explore a wild and unknown environment, facing questions and making choices that can build or destroy the only meaningful relationship you have. Your supervisor Delilah is available to you at all times over a small, handheld radio-your only contact with the world you've left behind. An especially hot, dry summer has everyone on edge. Perched high atop a mountain, it’s your job to look for smoke and keep the wilderness safe. You are a man named Henry who has retreated from his messy life to work as a fire lookout in the Wyoming wilderness.

#FIREWATCH GAME RATING MAC#

Mac Pros, 5K iMacs, and 15" MacBook Pros 2014 or newer are recommended.) (GRAPHICS NOTE: dedicated graphics are required for a smooth experience. If you plan on playing with a younger gamer, that might be good to know going in.) (NOTE: Firewatch is a video game about adults having adult conversations about adult things. I give Firewatch an 8/10 and recommend it to anyone who enjoys a more relaxing story-based game.Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness. Once you experience the plot and explore more of the forest and discover the secrets lying within you get even more deep and relatable events that take the game that started out as a middle-aged man starting a summer forest job to another level. I believe the writers did a fantastic job as near the end of the game you find yourself making decisions you wouldn’t make after experiencing Henry’s life up until that point. Having their relationship build up during each mission even if it is just to have her provide additional commentary on what you are doing helped expand her character and helped you connect with her. You really feel connected with the protagonist Henry and the chemistry with his character and Delilah was spot on. I felt that the life choices that were given to you at the prologue became very powerful and relatable so quickly and this carried over into the rest of the game. The greatįinally let’s talk about the great with Firewatch. I also enjoyed the map and compass feature that’s given when you explore the open area as it helps with the immersion as well. The world is open and feels just the right size in my opinion for what the game was going for and I never found myself discouraged by any back tracking since the world was not too large. The controls are simple yet effective for this type of story-based game. They really nailed the feeling of being in a campground/national forest with hiking trails. Moving on to what’s good about the game, I thought the art style and graphics were great for the time the game was released back in 2016 and it helped with the immersion of the game. The last thing I felt Firewatch needed was a real antagonist as the plot seemed like it was going in that direction. You can extend this time with taking a slower pace and taking in the world around as I did, but it still felt like after the climax the ending of the game came rather fast and could’ve had more time and content in between. Let’s start with what I did not like about Firewatch, the game is rather short and can be easily completed in one sitting especially if you want to mainly just focus on the story elements.

When you first arrive, you meet your boss via radio communication Delilah with whom you speak with throughout the entire game as your relationship builds. After finishing this prologue, you begin Firewatch arriving at your summer job working as a fire watch in the forest keeping an eye out for fires.