![]() ![]() It’s another clever idea for the DEFCON level to represent a kind of lives system in the game. Some scenes featuring around ten enemies armed with machine guns, grenades (which you can throw back) and rocket launchers, and though you can shoot explosive barrels to get the upper hand, you can find yourself in a very bad situation, losing lives and seeing the DEFCON alert rise. The only problem is that it soon starts to demand absolute accuracy and timing. ![]() ![]() The right stick handles the aiming once more, but while in cover this is a vague circle and it’s only when you stick your head out that you can get the true and precise target. There’s no ability to take pot shots, so whenever you try to shoot, you are fully exposed to incoming fire. In a cute little twist, the enemies can occasionally make use of stairs in the background to move between levels.ĭuring these moments, it turns into more of a lightgun game or shooting gallery, as you stay tucked in cover and pop out occasionally to shoot at the enemies. Taking cover behind chevron marked objects in the game shifts the camera angle and makes full use of the depth to the game’s 3D geometry. It could be that it looks down the corridor, showing that the guards’ patrol routes actually move in more dimensions than one, or it could see you looking into a corridor or large room into which you can only shoot, not walk, with tons of enemies to try and tackle. When sidescrolling, combat is a simple dual stick system, but there’s a lot more to the game’s combat than this. These along with powerups to silence footsteps, disguise you a bit from cameras and more are tucked away as multi-part blueprints to discover in levels, though this unlocks them for purchase across all campaigns, That’s before you get to all the guns on offer which range from the regular pistol to silenced shotguns, knock out dart guns and even more exotic things like explosive gloop guns. Rather than sneaking up behind and knocking enemies out, it’s quite clear that necks are being snapped. It often leads to the game devolving into brash gunplay as a consequence.Ĭonsidering it’s a game of espionage, it has a surprisingly brazen and murderous streak to it. It’s just hard to figure out whether they will then call this in, raising the alert level, or whether a particular wall or door is thick enough to mask the sounds of this and gunfire. Whenever you extract plans from a computer or find certain collectables, it makes a noise which nearby guards can hear, with icons around the edge of the screen to indicate this and their location. They get more difficult to neutralise as you progress and much more numerous too, that’s certain, but the range of their hearing and sight is hard to discern. Something that’s always tricky to get a handle on is the abilities of the guard AI. ![]()
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