If the game is nothing more
than a cover shooter, it's going to be boring for a lot of people.
Not exact matches
Other
than that, this is your standard progression based online
shooter with a third person
cover mechanic and there is nothing wrong with that.
When you combine all these elements Gears of War 3 is a more mobile and quick paced
shooter than ever before, which is handy because an upgrade to enemy AI has made them far more willing to leap over
cover and get all up in your face with a shotgun.
Let's be honest, just by glancing at the
cover art featuring Marcus and company, it could easily be assumed this is nothing more
than a mindless
shooter.
-- Ridiculously short single - player campaign — Lack of a decent
cover system — Looks and feels like your average
shooter, with slightly less
than average graphics
After three completed playthroughs (and counting), I can assure you the game's swing - and - shoot action soars above its plot, and creates firefights that are far more interesting to navigate
than the typical,
cover - based action of other third - person
shooters.
Everyone having magic jetpacks also allows the game to expand vertically more
than most modern
shooters, and you'll often find yourself sitting behind
cover that juts out from a roof, upside - down.
Overkill VR is a VR
shooter based on
cover - system mechanics, with tons of different customizable guns and more
than 50 levels, giving you 40 + hours of deadly fun.
Although my review has really focused on the negative aspects, it's always been easier to criticise
than praise and at the end of the day, Binary Domain is a quality
cover shooter title.
Whether you're a fan of first - person
shooters, real - time strategy, multiplayer online battle arena games or a good old - fashioned Japanese role - playing game, Steam has you
covered with more
than 3,500 titles — and that's not including the burgeoning SteamVR category.
It's quite shallow — more of a Hyrule Warriors
than a Bayonetta — with every melee weapon responding in similar manner to a basic light - light - heavy attack combo, but that simplicity is welcome in a
cover shooter like this one.
Broken down to its DNA, Quantum Break is a third - person,
cover - based
shooter — albeit more like the recent Tomb Raider games
than say, Gears of War.
Though it represents the bulk of the action, there's more to The Gunstringer
than just running and gunning, breaking up the action with chase scenes,
cover - based enemy encounters, and sequences that have you brandishing a pair of auto - firing six -
shooters, a shotgun, a flamethrower, a sword, or just your bare fists.
This sci - fi third - person
shooter favours a more sedate (no rocket - assisted power - sliding to
cover) angle
than last year's 9/10 scoring Vanquish.
When it comes to blowing the roof off a video game genre, one couldn't aim for a more low - hanging, flimsily constructed
covering than that of the massively multiplayer online first - person
shooter market.
I also found that even taking the skill and level system into account the
cover -
shooter aspects were «fiddly», meaning that more
than once I found myself popping out of
cover when I meant to slide, struggling with the «shoot from
cover» aspects and so on.
The slower pace of the characters, even when running, combined with a focus on shooting from
cover and working in a team is a more accessible
shooter than most.
In defiance of modern first - person
shooter conventions, The New Order sports an atypical
cover system, more reminiscent of
shooters from the era of Return to Castle Wolfenstein
than the more modern Gears of War - style system.
Coming in 2015, Splatoon is a 8 - player online third - person
shooter that will put players in the role of squid people and task them with
covering more of the battlefield in their team's colored ink
than their opponents.
Rather
than these realistic
shooters, it hearkens back to the genre's roots in abstract 2D spaces such as Robotron and Tempest, where nimble evasion ruled and slow - moving
cover - to -
cover progression was only a glint in its progenitor's eye.