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<\/a><\/p>\nGameplay<\/strong><\/p>\n Gunpoint is firstly a game about infiltration – getting in, getting the data and getting out – and in between those bits, there’s a lot of jumping thorough windows, clambering up walls and tactfully avoiding\/beating-up\/otherwise disposing of guards.<\/p>\n The main point of each level is to reach computer terminals and collect sensitive data – and then make your escape; it’s as easy as that. Of course, getting to the terminals isn’t quite as easy as it sounds.<\/p>\n Security cameras, alarms, vault doors, electronic doors and numerous guards will be standing in your way – and getting past them is where the challenge lies.<\/p>\n In the Gunpoint world, everyone dies from one shot – including you – so really, being stealthy is the whole idea here.<\/p>\n Sneaking up behind guards and pushing them through windows does the job of getting them out the way – but also draws other guards towards the noise. Dropping on them from above also results in their removal from the picture – but leaving them in the dark with a little rewiring of the lights works just as well.<\/p>\n Crosslink<\/strong><\/p>\n The second part of Gunpoint is about rewiring the buildings you infiltrate to work to your advantage – this is done through the Crosslink System – which is where things get interesting.<\/p>\n If you thought you had choice before, then things are about to get exponentially more choosey for you.<\/p>\n Crosslink shifts the visual mode of the game to an ‘x-ray’ of the building where all the wired circuits become visible. Here you’re free to literally rewire things so that triggers are activated in different ways.<\/p>\n For example, by rewiring an electronic door to a light circuit, your little problem of not being able to pass through the shut pathway can be resolved by the flip of the switch.<\/p>\n By cross-linking different circuits, you’re able to plan out some creative scenarios, especially when it comes to things like timed vault doors, or having to confuse or trap guards in rooms – Crosslink allows you to set up and trigger a chain reaction of awesomeness.<\/p>\n Different triggers can be on different coloured circuits, but there’s always a way to get to the data – and the solution you conjure up may not be the best in the game, but it’s yours, and that’s what counts.<\/p>\n The Crosslink feature is setting up Gunpoint to be much more varied and more fun than a simple run in and get out infiltration mini-game – offering you the chance to make your own way through the game.<\/p>\n Info that counts<\/strong><\/p>\n So where can you get your hands on it and what can you expect to be paying? Well…you can’t. Yet. And nothing. For now.<\/p>\n Tom Francis had intended on giving this game away for free – but in order to make it as polished as it is, he had to get a couple of other people involved, and let’s face it, money is a great way of saying thanks – so now he’s “open to suggestion” regarding a price point.<\/p>\n Personally, I would definitely pay to play something that looks this fun – it’s PC only for now, and will get a full release early next year (the website says “probably March 2012”).<\/p>\n In the mean-time, MyGaming is going to take up Tom’s offer to get in contact and get our hands on the next preview build of the game. I especially want to jump through windows and belly-flop the ground – because it looks so satisfying.<\/p>\n Definitely one to watch!<\/p>\n Check out and listen to Tom explaining his labour of love in the video below.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nSource: Pentadact<\/a><\/h5>\n