Game is ok. Devs are shady little children who can't handle negative feedback or make original content.
3/10 needs new dog models

Is it a great game? No. Is it worth the price? Yes. Can you get some absurd fun out of it? Yes.

i want my money back.

After 3 years and 3 Steam releases, I expected an improvement on the controversial game I had heard so much about.

First released as Orion: Dino Beatdown for $15, then Orion: Dino Horde which dropped to $1, and now Orion: Prelude which has recently gone Free-to-Play. This is where I entered the picture.

I had first heard about this game with such catchy headlines as "The Worst Video Game EVER!" and "Is Orion: Prelude still the Worst Game Ever?". I then saw trailers which showed the game in its new polished state and heard the feedback stating it was "the best turn-around in video game history!". Outside of these he-said/she-said discusions I didn't pay much attention to this game. "It's Halo with Dinosaurs" they said, "Nonsense!" I'd say. It wasn't until the game literally screamed "I'm free now, please play me! It would be very nice if you would play me!"

So I did, and while a awaited the game's download I decided to research the critisim of this game. What I saw was a buggy unfinished mess, multiple instances of theft of video game assets by the developers, and radical reactions to negative feedback by the creator. But that was for the older versions of the game, right?

What I played in Prelude, and what I saw in Dino Beatdown/Horde, I could not distinguish. I really like the idea of this game and I wish it all worked, but ultimately the game lacks polish: it's horribly optimized, animations are amateur at best, Ai is atrocious, and weapon handling is nonexistant.

The saddest part is, it seems this game will never be improved because the developers refuse any meaningful critisim and/or are incapable of coding a better functioning game. They have big plans ahead, but I don't know how they can realize them if they can't manage to properly make this.

Try the game if you want, you're free to do so, but as someone who wanted to like this game I warn you of what I have experienced.

Making this free2play is a problem

is it a perfect game? Nope not at all BUT it is very fun i bought it back when it was $0.99 and even though its now f2p i still dont regret it, its a fun fps game to just shoot some dinosaurs trying to stop your generators and you have a large assortment of vehicles aswell as weapons also if you play most of your games offline and solo like i do it completely supports that so grab some guns and blast some space dinos!

(if there is one bad thing to be said its the micro-transaction store for cosmetics im not a fan of stuff like that in any game at all but aside from that its still a solid fun game to play)

I spent over 5 dollars on this game for other people...

I say money well spent, I enjoyed this game.

Stolen Content
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4q6xo5/activisions_dmca_claim_on_orion_is_legit_orions/

they should have made it free 2 play, the minute they put that money harvesting store in the game.

trek industries a.k.a. spiral studios a.k.a. Dave Prassell, isn't doing anybody any favors.

the game however, is still pretty good. i recommend it, begrudgingly. at least, now, you can't beat the price.

still, the company that made it is just as shady as any other video game company because they are ALL shady.
it's an inherently shady industry, so you can't show me a game publisher who is not shady because there aren't any of those.

GIVE ME MY MONEY, BACK!