After that, you’re immediately thrown into the game, with a lack of any sort of tutorial as to how to get started. When the game first starts up, you’re given a brief summary of the conflict and are then prompted to choose a PMC faction either BEAR or USEC that have differing skills from each other, but the core gameplay more or less stays the same. Onto the gameplay, the most important element in any shooter and especially Tarkov. The animations are also great as every little detail has its own animation, including things like looking at the rounds left in your magazine, inspecting your weapon, etc.

The environments and textures look amazing, the character models are really highly detailed and the weather effects are gorgeous. You couldn’t differentiate it from a standard AAA shooter, even though it’s actually an indie game. Graphically, this game is very impressive. Escape from Tarkov is set in the fictional Norvinsk region in Russia where war is set between two PMCs (private military companies) USEC and BEAR fighting over a political and economic conflict in that area.

With that said, the premise of this game is great and it has massive potential.

It was developed by Battlestate Games and genre-wise it’s a PvPvE MMO first-person shooter that rose in popularity the last few years.įirst of all this game is still in beta so features from the full version might be missing and the game’s performance as of right now, isn’t that great even on a fairly high-end PC. Escape from Tarkov was first released on August 4th 2016, in a closed alpha state and was later updated to a closed beta in July 2017.

Escape from tarkov review