a la Resident Evil 5<\/a>.<\/p>\nConsidering the flak Resident Evil 5 got for sending Chris Redfield into an African village to kill uroboros-infected Africans – I\u2019m really surprised there\u2019s not been a peep about the equally as white, \u201cAsset\u201d, emptying clips into normal, not-infected-by-anything Africans.<\/p>\n
In all fairness though, with the repeated use of character models (with a bit of a different colour palette now and then) you\u2019re only really killing about 2 people over and over again, anyway.<\/p>\n
Maybe the game is making some statement about cloning, or perhaps the game is simply a dumb shooter that doesn\u2019t faff about with stories and characters, but instead opts for mind-numbing shooty-shooty action!<\/p>\n
This is the part I mentioned where the game does what it\u2019s supposed to do. Mostly.<\/p>\n
Duck and cover<\/strong><\/p>\nAfter dropping into the map, you\u2019re given your weapons and get thrown into the crossfire of two opposing militant groups. You\u2019re on your own team, so you kill them all.<\/p>\n
The game uses a rather novel cover feature, where pushing the trigger makes you duck. Not behind anything, mind you – that\u2019s something you control manually as you determine where the hell you are as you bob around.<\/p>\n
While this is a nice change from conventional cover systems – it\u2019s a bit clumsy; it\u2019s difficult to determine when you\u2019re actually behind cover (usually when the bullets stop hitting you, you\u2019re okay) – but by the time you\u2019ve isolated that perfect spot to take out enemies, they\u2019ve already bombarded you with grenades, and effectively destroyed the cover altogether.<\/p>\n
Thus began my semi-effective method of running head-first into enemies and shooting them in the face.<\/p>\n
The game allows for some degree of strategy when it comes to taking on missions – but you will eventually have to kill everything anyway, so why waste time sneaking about.<\/p>\n
It’s a warzone<\/strong><\/p>\nEnemies aren\u2019t stupid, and will take cover, lob grenades at you and know well enough that there are other enemies about besides you – but at the same time there are a fair share that dance around with targets on their heads, waiting for you to introduce them to an early death.<\/p>\n
The game has the most ridiculous \u201ccurrency\u201d in the form of \u201cintel\u201d – which is indicated rather comically by large exclamation symbols littered all over the aftermath of your shoot-fest.<\/p>\n
Killing enemies more effectively (boom! Headshot!) gives more intel, which in turn powers up one of four special abilities (temporary invulnerability, exploding bullets, night vision and calling an airstrike).<\/p>\n
So basically, killing people makes them drop documents containing data which directly feeds into your brain either boosting you physically by numbing pain – or mentally, by removing the hurr durr and allowing you to remember how to use basic equipment you had all along.<\/p>\n
As the game progresses, you get more enemies to shoot at (yes, white people amongst them) and some tougher \u201cboss\u201d-like baddies who take a little bit more to dispose of; but the main idea of \u201cshoot everything to sh*t\u201d doesn\u2019t change much. At all.<\/p>\n
What really counts<\/strong><\/p>\nAdmittedly I never got to finish Bodycount; I got to the later levels, almost 5 hours in, and It was around about that point that thieves broke into my house and stole my TV.<\/p>\n
While I am significantly annoyed at this fact – somewhere in my heart of hearts, I think the universe was actually doing me a favour.<\/p>\n
As I said: it\u2019s not that Bodycount is a bad game – it\u2019s actually quite a fun game; but only in the sense that, say, Kung Pow is a fun movie: It\u2019s a mindless, almost pointless, romp that doesn\u2019t suck enough to disregard it, but also doesn\u2019t excel enough to make it a must-have title.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll undoubtedly have a blast just shooting things like a crazy man; whooping as the environments dissipate in your wake – but it will be over very quickly, and boredom will set in as you routinely dispatch enemies the same way you\u2019ve been doing all along.<\/p>\n
With so many great games out, and still more to come – especially shooters – Bodycount doesn\u2019t really have a place in my limited attention span – even though it doesn\u2019t take much of it to play.<\/p>\n
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