After re-listening to the Ready Player One audiobook for the dozenth time, I figured let me give this one a go since I had it. I can say I liked it. But it is a strange mix of very similar to RP1, but very different. That's probably simply because there is a lot of pop culture as we are familiar with, albeit with more of a focus on sci-fi, video games definitely figure heavily in this one, but it all comes down to they are in real life today instead of a couple decades in the future, and there are real, honest to goodness aliens coming to destroy us and everyone needs to do something about it. In some ways, it was predictable... and yet, others, not so much. Like I said, I liked it, but don't see myself listening to it as many times as I have RP1 thus far. But it's still a good one to pick up and give a go if you liked the other book.