Samson reviewed by Luke Reilly on PC.
"Samson has all the components of a game I should love. It boasts a gorgeously realised and impressively atmospheric open world jammed full of bespoke detail, an authentically grimy ’90s noir setting, and a deep enough respect for its 3D action-driving roots that I’m reasonably convinced they named a bridge after the main character of Driver. On top of that, it’s been assembled by veterans of the best game released on September 1, 2015. Unfortunately, Samson just doesn’t work. Broadly, it doesn’t work because of its litany of bugs and glitches, its wasted ’90s setting, and its format of repeating jobs that rapidly becomes tedious and unsurprising. More specifically, however, Samson doesn’t work because it’s literally broken, since it also stopped serving me story missions halfway through and left me marooned in a soft-locked save file I can’t actually finish – despite updates this week coming with fixes for the various “progression blockers” players are suffering. Samson may come stocked with an impressively detailed sandbox, but it’s totally impossible to recommend in its current state."