Shoot their legs of, and they slowly crawl towards you. Tactical dismemberment is the name of the game. It’s a great game with great shooting and very satisfying scrap metal simulation mechanics where you can shoot the robots figuratively to bits.
Many many faceless robots to shoot in their faceless metal faceplates. Shooting faceless dudes in the face gets old quick, which is why Binary Domain pits the player against faceless robots to shoot. This is the proper sequel that Crackdown never got, and that is damn high praise coming from me. Open world superheroic gangster goodness. Until aliens arrive and abduct the president with all staff and trap everyone in a virtual world and uh yeah the story is irrelevant, it’s all about gameplay. Also the head of the Saints is now the President of the United States. But still it’s quite a lot of fun to create your gangster. Sadly the character customization is no longer quite as powerful as it was with Saints Row 2.
Where Rockstar takes their series closer and closer to interactive movies, Volition takes the things that GTA lacks mostly, namely every mechanical video game trope ever invented, and put them into their games. The antithesis to last year’s uber epic GTA entry was Saints Row 4. With not a single endangered animal harmed this time around. The latter of which is of course no indicator of inherent quality, but it is a really fun third person manshoot. It’s one of the best games of last year, and also the best selling Tomb Raider game to date. There could have been a few more actual tombs to raid, but let’s not get picky. Shooting dudes with bow and arrow.Īnd she’s very good at it, the game is a great reinterpretation of what Tomb Raider can be. Also this game is rightly featured as a third person shooter, because that’s most of what Lara does now. The new Tomb Raider is structurally more reminiscent of Batman’s first stint at Arkham, as in that there is a relatively large, relatively open environment of which new sections can be explored with new gear.
This one is just the first that goes for a full makeover and oh my what a makeover that is. Well actually that’s not true, there were a lot of Tomb Raider games over the years. Every military action game seems to need those these days, though I hear the new trend goes towards South American tyrants in the coming season. Also it’s a pretty game with a lot of different environments and the obligatory russian extremists that want to re-ignite the cold war. It’s a surprisingly well working formula most of the time. Sneak towards the enemy positions, scout out the area ahead with an UAV drone, mark enemies and overwhelm them quickly without a big firefight. Future Soldier is a solid squad based military shooter that has a little simulation aroma added for taste without being too heavy on it really. With Future Soldier, Ubisoft is trying their best to get back at the big guns from Activision, and well they do manage to get closer at least. The Tom Clancy gaming series has a problem and that problem is called “ Call of Duty” who successfully out-Tom-Clancy’d Tom Clancy. As an online RPG and third person shooter, The Division promises high octane gun battles and a leveling system that’ll encourage players to invest their time in their characters while playing online with friends. Tom Clancy’s The Division from Ubisoft is promising to take the third person shooter genre to new heights by introducing MMO role-playing game mechanics into the whole set up, in very much the same way how Bungie and Activision’s Destiny did so with the FPS genre.