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Players can effectively win this mode by defeating all 4 bosses, though the game’s formula still encourages coming back for more. Still, I’ve found optimal strategies to solo every one of them, with the level design generous enough to always offer some ways to escape, run behind cover, or even grab extra health and ammo when these two resources are becoming scarce on our digital avatar’s HUD.

As the difficulty level rises, so do the boss fights’ phases, and these battles are undoubtedly the hardest encounters in these rift-like runs. Players can rush for the standard finish of the level and avoid the hassle, or risk their lives in one of the four currently available high-octane boss fights, all preceded by their fancy intro and each with their own playable arena and rules. High-level equipment can often be found in chests of varying rarity colours as well, some of which are hidden behind some exploration – better check corners, rooftops, and hidden paths of levels that tend to be rather vertical and with a lot of room for maneuvering.Įvery few levels an optional boss battle pops up. Naturally, the quality of the loot and the amount of XP gained also rise in this case. With each level completed, the difficulty rises, though players can take it up a notch themselves by spending coins to increment the toughness of encounters. For each level, the game picks up a random environment, generates the level via pre-existing “blocks”, fills it up with randomized enemies and loot, gives a set of objectives such as capturing areas or hacking doors to progress, and places a handy exit and a mid-point break area to replenish health, ammo, change the character loadout or even buy new gear in the shop. There isn’t a campaign mode to speak of, only procedurally generated levels that compose what essentially feel like rifts from a Diablo game.

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On the Xbox Series X version I tested for several hours, performance has also generally maintained a rock-solid 60 frames per second for most of the action, with brief drops only encountered at ridiculously big explosions involving several enemies and pieces of scenery. Since it’s supposed to be a videogame, there’s not much reason or rhyme as to why the environments vary this much, but the result is always very pleasant on the eye. Smooth and fast gameplay over colourful, relatively sterile but generally well-readable areas, ranging from futuristic condos to medieval fantasy-esque green pastures, with post-apocalyptic wastelands and a literal Hell making the count in this digital game-in-a-game.

The story is nothing to write novels about, but the game’s general presentation is very pleasant. Gamers rise up! Now, where did I hear this one before? A basic premise is to shoot a whole lot of enemies. The arcade game is the playground, the virus manifests itself predominantly as humanoid AI enemies, and players improve themselves via XP, unlocks and loot, tons of loot. Arcade-aficionado gangs shall be recruited by our player to boost this arcade game’s player numbers, fill the leaderboard with massive high scores, and fight back FunFUNCo’s continued attempts to stop the game via the spread of a virus. Legendary programmer “Gilly” created his magnum opus, the underground arcade game to rule ’em all, but the evil corporation/game publisher FunFUNCo is trying to shut it down, as they dominate the whole field and want to destroy every self-made attempt. The basic premise of the game tries to evoke a feeling of nostalgia in gamers of old in the mythical arcade era, despite the actual game chasing newer multiplayer trends. Up to 4 players can gang up online in this frantic shooter *Update: originally announced for Xbox One the game has only launched in the Series consoles. Let’s check out Arcadegeddon on Xbox Series X, shall we?

The 1.0 version is here, launching on Xbox Series consoles as well, and we’ve taken a look at this colourful shooter.

The game showed promise, but there was just not enough variety or interest yet to become an online phenomenon.

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Colorado-based IllFonic of Friday The 13th: The Game fame had a rather muted soft launch for their brand new mixture of PvE and PvP shooter last year, partly thanks to an Epic Games Store exclusivity on the early access window on PC and only a PlayStation version as far as consoles go.

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