Death Stranding (PS4)

Was hält einen also am Spielen, wenn es nicht das trostlose Herumrennen als Paketbote ist? Definitiv die Geschichte. Das vereinte Amerika wieder aufbauen und Menschen bei ihren Schicksalen zur Seite zu stehen ist beinahe eine Lebensaufgabe.

Death Stranding is unlike anything else out there right now. It's huge, innovative and utterly unashamed in what it wants to be. Kojima Productions is heavy-handed in its implementation of modern political themes, but they tie into the narrative and involve the player in ways that feel compelling.

Should You Buy Death Stranding? If you’re looking to play the purest modern video game about fetch quests and filling up bars, yes. If you’re looking for a unique gameplay experience and great acting, also yes.

Death Stranding is a hard game to absorb. There are many intertwining threads to its plot, and silly names, corny moments, and heavy exposition belie an otherwise very simple message. That comes through much more clearly in the game's more mundane moments, when you find a desperately-needed ladder left behind by another player or receive a letter from an NPC thanking you for your efforts.

Death Stranding delivers a fascinating world of supernatural sci-fi, but its gameplay struggles to support its weight.

The game bears the unmistakable mark of its creator, but doesn't leave enough for players to enjoy.

Death Stranding is like nothing I have ever played; beautiful, heart racing, heart breaking, frustrating, epic, stunning, and utterly nuts. I laughed, I cried, I cursed, and I went to the toilet an awful lot. Death Stranding isn't just my Game of the Year, it's a contender for Game of the Generation too.

Death Stranding is not the overly-strange inaccessible walled garden the marketing has made it out to be. It's weird, don't get me wrong! But anyone with a surface-level understanding of surrealism in art should be able to acclimate to what is essentially a playable Hollywood production.