Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Hard Reset. It is a work of art from Poland, who are quickly outdoing Japan when it comes to good, innovative videogames.
You carry two guns which diversify until you have a hl2 style arsenal at you disposal and you will need them as there are a shit-tonne of robots. Not only that but a variety of robots, all with their own quirks, weaknesses and tactics to deal with them, mostly involving either charging in and shooting like a madman or circle strafing and using environmental explosives. Cover is almost non-existant and you dont really miss it as most enemies just swarm and try to eat your face like zerglings or blow up.
The games story is a bit of a blur and the environments are dirty brown/grey/black
but what it does best is the terrifying lows of being surrounded or being attacked by something huge followed by the exhilarating rush of wiping out every ************ in the room.
Also, they do not shy away from old-school difficulty, even the normal difficulty can be testing at times. Often, you can feel the game chomping at the bit wanting to throw you back into the deep end.
I dont normally do reviews etc, but this is exactly the sort of game which can slip under the radar and its too good to let it slide so go out, get it, hell, download the demo and go back to a time when shooters were just about killing every ************ in a room and collecting goodies from the corpses
You carry two guns which diversify until you have a hl2 style arsenal at you disposal and you will need them as there are a shit-tonne of robots. Not only that but a variety of robots, all with their own quirks, weaknesses and tactics to deal with them, mostly involving either charging in and shooting like a madman or circle strafing and using environmental explosives. Cover is almost non-existant and you dont really miss it as most enemies just swarm and try to eat your face like zerglings or blow up.
The games story is a bit of a blur and the environments are dirty brown/grey/black
but what it does best is the terrifying lows of being surrounded or being attacked by something huge followed by the exhilarating rush of wiping out every ************ in the room.
Also, they do not shy away from old-school difficulty, even the normal difficulty can be testing at times. Often, you can feel the game chomping at the bit wanting to throw you back into the deep end.
I dont normally do reviews etc, but this is exactly the sort of game which can slip under the radar and its too good to let it slide so go out, get it, hell, download the demo and go back to a time when shooters were just about killing every ************ in a room and collecting goodies from the corpses