Sprawl İnceleme (TheBrazilianGuy)
I've finished my first playthrough, and i got to say the game is pretty good! some drawback here and there, but nothing that makes me pull my ears out
Combat: Solid. The game doesn't hold your hand and lets you experiment how everything works during gameplay. At first when you only have your melee weapon and pistol, so you most be reallying on bullet time to do most damage, when you get the SMG at the end of the first level, and a shotgun that has blowback on the second, things change and you have to adapt your playstyle because you woundn't be using your arsenal to its full potential. Bullet time is now more used to get fishing shots with your slow firing but heavy hitting weapons while moving or doging proj. and trying to hit the jackpack canisters at the back of enemies for a one shot KO
Movement feels great. the game offers a lot of walls during combat sequences to wallrun, bunnyhop and fly using the the blowback of the shotgun. I felt that i could win every single encounter that the game threw on me if didn't underestimate my enemies or just get cocky and tried to kill the heaviest enemy in the game with shotgun because his health was low. It offered the right amount of challange without overwellming me or just being too easy
The story is told via QR Codes you can find on tablets throughout the game, but the just of it is: Your SEVEN, a cybernetic advanced super soldier working for a military junta (Or just "The Junta"), which is backed by mega corporations that supply them with weapons and military grade bots. As the last goverment on earth after a total war agaisnt the "American Empire", the world has been reduced to a single city which can sustain life, that is the Sprawl. All of that beyond the sprawl is either destroyed or just factories that full the Junta Regime, but are just bones of a bygone era. During a mission, you were setup with defective cybernetics that made you persive civilians as enemies, massacrating them. This gives the Junta a perfect excuse to get rid of you since they persive you as outdated. You were saved by FATHER, an AI that reanbles you and fixes your fauty cybernetics. In return for your revenge agaisnt the junta, you will set him "Free".
Now lets get to the cons. I feel the weakest part of the game was the bosses. They were just were very underwelming (I finished the game on normal difficulty) and really dissapointing. The only thing making apart from normal enemies is their gigantic health pool, being bullet proof against small arms bullets and having weakspots that only big guns can damage.
The amount of content is also not very worthy of its price tag(If you are an brazilian). I payed ~R$42 (Real) for 12 levels spread around 3 chapters? Sure there is a lot of replayability with different difficulities, but i feel they could have add at least an endless arena-type mode like ghostrunner.
The game also feels somewhat rushed. You have this big levels with lots to do and various objectives, taking around 1 hour/40 mins to complete, and then they throw you on a 15 Min/20 Min level that is just... boring, and you can breeze through with the amount of heavy weapon ammo you get through the level, and there are also alot of day one bugs that when i'm writing this review is still not fixed, that can make enemies not spawn and you have to restart the level in order to beat it.
Overall, If your an ULTRAKILL crack adict, loves DOOM and DOOM ETERNAL, likes DUSK, or just want to be a litlle gremilin in a movement shooter, your defitinaly gonna like this game (Hey, gianni even voices a character in the game)