Mindless SLAUGHTER, I love it!!!!!!! A somewhat 'Diablo2 clone+Serious Sam+Kickass weapons+Metal BGM'. GET THE DEMO NOW!
Do you know these kind of games where you know it isn't well polished, yet you keep playing it, and you're very drawn to? This is one. I finished this game 3 times up until now, 3rd time was on 'Impossible' (the hardest difficulty). I and I usually just finish games one time, so you get the picture.
The Bad:
# No story (weak as they come), bad voice acting, zero character background/development.
# Repetitive, objectives are designed just for the sake of being there. Run and turn something on.
# Text exceeds the margins, meaning there's more text than the box can handle, so it starts showing below on other stuff. Yeah, I know, its highly unprofessional. I had to say that because this might give the impression that the game was made in 5 days.
# A couple of bugs: AI sometime get stuck -where it shouldn't-, Text doesn't match what the character is saying, There is delay in the voices (will say a paragraph, then say the next after a period of time), and one time a paragraph of the briefing is said twice.
# SHORT. Finished it in one sitting. Don't expect a week worth of gameplay or something lol. It has a replay value tho, due to the RPG element. You can try out different builds (rocket, power, shotguns, or a hybrid of a couple) utilize different implants to give you different stat boost (speed or health).
The Good:
# If you have played Serious Sam you know what it feels like to wipe out 2,000 Aliens per level! And frankly its BRILLIANT. There's nothing better than annihilating 80-something Alien with one rocket, or constantly whaling your rail-gun/mini-gun to obliterate waves and waves of them as they come. mmmmmmmm.
# The RPG element: ZOMG man, indeed the RPG is at its simplest and most naive forms. However, its what makes the game so much fun and addictive. RPG is the one thing that makes you once you beat the game, go and beat again to try a different build, then again to try another, then again to try a hybrid, ..etc. You have your stats: Health, Strength (doesn't affect damage), Aim, Intelligence, Speed, Perk (Equivalent to Skill, you only choose one. Affecting health, money or others), Armor, and one for each weapon class (boosts the damage). There's really no complex system here at all, the Implants (equivalent of Rings and Amulets) come with the same stats, they minorly re-roll every level. Weapons, armors and the rest of the equipments are always with the same same stats.
# Bosses and Mini-bosses. I've always had a thing for fighting bosses, can't really explain much here. You have like 5-6 Bosses in the entire game all in ONE level (kinda sucks). And lots of Mini-bosses.
# Weapons Galore. A lot of fancy looking weapons to choose from.
# Great BGM, there's both ambient(1-2 good tracks, and a total of 3) and Heavy Metal Distortion (3 great tracks, and a total of 11).
# The ending is non-linear, and there are about 3 sidequests throughout the entire game.
Survival mode sucks, haven't tried it Co-op. Haven't tired deathmatch (and prolly won't, useless imo).
Being just out of a JRPG streak, I needed something fast paced, and I am glad I found this game. My idea of a retro shooter is Doom and Wolf3d. I've never played this type of shooter before (apart from the NES' Alien Shooter). Yet I loved the game, so it doesn't matter if you're a fan of this genre or not. If you find this game cheap/free/rent/borrow GET IT.