User Rating: 9.9 | Chrome PC
By koolham | Review Date:
I have to agree with the fact that I think Chrome is a compilation of all the best features a first person shooter should have, but somehow it didn’t get all the attention it deserved. If I hadn’t of played the demo, I would have easily overlooked this great game. The game play is straight-forward and easy to follow, you are given objectives that are clearly explained and displayed on a map. Furthermore, you have the freedom to go about anywhere in a map at a given time, sometimes doing missions in a non-linear fashion. The ability to take all the extra ammo and health packs, etc. off of the dead corpses of enemies is not only realistic but adds a different element of game play. You’ll find it useful to swap different types of guns and their ammo for varying situations or personal preference and the plethora of health packs may make the game seam easy but with the difficulty set high you will need them. Also, the implants in the game add a great style to the game because its like being a temporary super hero, you only have a certain amount of “neuro energy” to sustain any one or more nano-implants at a time, providing a new type of strategy not really seen in first person shooters. A very impressive feature of the game is its ability to incorporate all of its features throughout the game. You use all the types of vehicles and will pretty much use some sort of combination of your nano-implants to get through the missions, its not as much as a gimmick as you would think. For example the eye implant will allow you to zoom in further than your gun would normally allow, so you can pick off enemies from farther away, essentially sniping them with normal range weapons. Personally I can connect with this game on the same level as Halo, but this game still distinguishes itself from other games in its genre. As for the story, its good, and has all the attention it needs. It’s not as awe-inspiring as Halo, but it’s believable and substantially immersive. The graphics alone make me want to play this game through, just to see the different environments that are present. Techland did a superb job with creating a new, impressive game engine, the lush, high polygon count the result of it. Environments are lifelike and can be compared on the level of Unreal Tournament 2003 and Unreal II’s graphics. The player models specifically are high resolution and beautifully sculpted. Reflections of light and environment are portrayed realistically, making metal look like metal and so on. I could go on about the graphics all day but we’ll just leave it with fact that they are superb. The sound is solid, but not the most noticeable feature of Chrome. The music is dynamic, changing as you engage in different activities, a lot of times there will be none too but it is appropriate. Everything sounds realistic and won’t make you think twice about it. The replay value is good, you probably won’t mind playing through this game more than one time for they are so varying and fun. The multiplayer has great potential, but I have yet to find a decent amount of servers to play on, perhaps instead of using a proprietary internet master server, it should have just incorporated GameSpy into it, but needless to say LAN games are a blast and you will have lots of fun with it. Overall I think Chrome is a sleeper hit. We need to see more games like this, but hopefully these games will get the advertising it needs. Techland seems like a small company I guess but it sure did make a damn nice game and I’m looking forward to their next endeavors. As for the rest of you who are considering this game, I think the demo speaks for itself. Play it and you will become addicted. It plays as good as it looks and will not disappoint.

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