Just downloaded and played through this.
Seems pretty solid. It's sort of a Gears clone, but without the overly long chainsaw animations and a much better story. Seems like a pretty awesome premise and there's some pretty deep potential with the interactions between your character and the girl. I hope they don't kill her like Aeris ^__^;;;
The melee combat is pretty awesome. Unlike Gears, it's not just a one hit kill if you get close to a guy. They also don't keep firing on you so much that you can't run over and hit them. But there's lots of cover so you can play that way too. It's kinda cool how the zones work. Like I thought I had killed all the guys, then I backtracked and found one straggler behind cover and I had to kill him to advance-- it's like the enemies are afraid of me! That was a pretty awesome moment in the demo and I hope there's more stuff like that.
It's a pretty strong effort and I'm glad a Japanese company is taking on a Western genre. If it keeps up like this, they could probably claim the genre for their own! I know Vanquish is doing something similar, but they threw in too much crazy stuff and it was too hard, so I'm probably gonna get this over it. Might get it day 1.
Anyway, what does everyone else think?
Seems pretty solid. It's sort of a Gears clone, but without the overly long chainsaw animations and a much better story. Seems like a pretty awesome premise and there's some pretty deep potential with the interactions between your character and the girl. I hope they don't kill her like Aeris ^__^;;;
The melee combat is pretty awesome. Unlike Gears, it's not just a one hit kill if you get close to a guy. They also don't keep firing on you so much that you can't run over and hit them. But there's lots of cover so you can play that way too. It's kinda cool how the zones work. Like I thought I had killed all the guys, then I backtracked and found one straggler behind cover and I had to kill him to advance-- it's like the enemies are afraid of me! That was a pretty awesome moment in the demo and I hope there's more stuff like that.
It's a pretty strong effort and I'm glad a Japanese company is taking on a Western genre. If it keeps up like this, they could probably claim the genre for their own! I know Vanquish is doing something similar, but they threw in too much crazy stuff and it was too hard, so I'm probably gonna get this over it. Might get it day 1.
Anyway, what does everyone else think?