User blog:NauticalBall/Roblox Game Review: Jailbreak

Since this is my first game review, I chose to start with the bread and butter Jailbreak.

What once was a well made game with a simple concept that definitely wasn't copied from Prison Life, has become a husk of its past self, trying desperately to stay in the limelight. Its player count has somewhat depleted, and for good reason.

Gameplay

Upon joining Jailbreak, you can choose two roles: a COP or a PRISONER....(this isn't prison life I swear)

When playing as a prisoner, you spawn in a cell. However, when I spawned, I spawned in a cafeteria, and was immediately greeted with a 'GIMME ROBUX' gui, which is commonplace nowadays. I feel it is asinine for devs to think noobs will dish out money to a game they just started playing. But whatever, i guess. As a prisoner, your job is to immediately escape. Already, this game lacks in a problem solving aspect, as escaping is literally right in front of you, unlike in other prison games, you must solve problems to escape. But in Jailbreak, you can escape instantly with a multitude of options: 1. You can punch this conveniently placed power box to open a gate. 2. You can explode a wall. 3. You can pickpocket a guard (this is actually quite an interesting way to get a keycard, however it is short-lived as it notifies the guard that you took their keycard). 4. Escape via air vents. 5. escape via sewer. I think you get the point.

The map is an incoherent mess. When I joined, I was met with two unanchored bench seats in the middle of the floor. When I escaped, I was immediately killed, and sent back to my cell.

I'm already bored to pieces. If you are lucky enough to make it to the criminal base, you can pick up guns and go do some illegal activities, which include, but are not limited to, robbing stuff.

Yeah that's it.

And people say "Prison Life" has a lack of things to do. Au contraire.

You can rob 5 places as of right now, but really only 4 since the 5th doesn't work in any sense of the word.

Boring Robberies: Donut Shop and Gas Station To rob these you hold down "e" and wait. pErFeCt gAmE dEsIGn

Enticing Robberies: Jewelry Store, The Bank, The Museum and The Train To rob the first three, you have to dodge lasers, avoid cameras, and then escape with your grab. This is, in all honesty, the only fun thing about this game.

This leaves the Train. Don't bother with the train. The roblox physics engine is so bad that the velocity of the train cannot be handled by it, so yeah what else is there to say?

Playing as a cop is self explanatory. You kill criminals and arrest inmates trying to escape. Sound familiar? I'd hope so, because it's basically Prison Life, just with an "impressive" map.

In all honesty, you can only play as a cop, as you have a huge advantage. Killing a criminal makes them a prisoner, so the handcuffs are obsolete and useless. This makes the game not very enjoyable. I don't understand why people like it so much.

The Elephant in the Room:

'Monetization'

This game is SUCH a cash-grab. Albeit, it is not as bad as OTHER games, but c'mon. Everything costs money. I'm getting club penguin flashbacks just looking at the store section. There's so many things that exist that simply don't need to, which include, but are NOT, IN ANY WAY, LIMITED TO: rocket fuel, skin crates, vehicle upgrades, guns, the VIP gamepass, bigger duffel bag, the 'BOSS' gamepass, to name a few. Badimo took Prison Life, made the map Terrain, mixed it with :marginal: brick building, added better looking cars, a helicopter, and more guns. But, it's still a prison game, and you can only have :so much: originality in a prison game.

Rating Interface: 4/5

Variety: 5/8

Gameplay: 4/10

Team Balancing: 2/5

OVERALL SCORE: 4/10

Please, just play something else. There isn't much substance to this game.