Review — Rust: Console Edition is not for the faint of heart
(Windows Phone Central)

Rust has finally found its footing thanks to live streaming, but the console edition has a long way to go to live up to the hype. I fancy myself something of a survival game aficionado with an agent of joyful chaos flare. When I played Conan: Exiles, I took up the mantel of being the Server Santa. I would labor all day to gather the materials needed to craft unique and useful items, only to drop them into unsuspecting clanmates` storage boxes when offline. In Ark: Survival Evolved, I was a bit more of a trickster who would wait for my friend to go offline then quickly rename his t-rex `Raymondo` before painting it hot pink. But Rust? None of that happens here. Rust`s unapologetically cruel public servers have left me a shell of my happy-go-lucky survivalist self. The unrelenting abrasiveness of this world leaves little room for fleeting moments of joy. Micro freezing and unstable server connections currently plague the launch version of the console edition, which is both years behi...