I bestowed Receiver 2 with a coveted Bestest Best sticker in my Receiver 2 review, regardless of it having huge pacing issues. The pressure of trawling throughout rooftops was sufficient to chop by means of the repetition, and the panic of fidgeting with a firearm that requires a dozen button presses to reload remained elegant. It takes a loooong time to progress to the purpose the place you get new enemies and new weapons to shoot them with although, partly because of the game dropping you down a development rank each time you stop. Developers Wolfire games say they’re patching that out “ASAP”.
That’s nice, but additionally a bit irrelevant, as I’ve found there’s a cheat you should use to immediately give your self one other rank. You ought to. You deserve it.
The drawback isn’t that the game is just too laborious, it’s that it’s an excessive amount of of a slog. You want to seek out 5 tiny cassette tapes to progress, and also you additionally lose a rank every time you die. That means you run up towards the identical outdated turrets again and again, and wind up feeling… kind of comfy. Receiver 2 shouldn’t be a game the place it is best to ever really feel comfy. Even kind of.
What I’m going to do any more, then, is sort “insight” straight into the game at any time when loss of life drops me down a rank. That means I get to battle and flee from the flying drones, that are electrifying in each sense of the phrase. I’ve already spent two minutes crying and swearing as I floundered away from one of many bastards, desperately making an attempt to repair an unprecedented malfunction with my Desert Eagle. That’s Receiver at its biggest, and dishonest lets me soar straight to it.
There are small modifications to the extent, too. I did that floundering in the course of a thunderstorm, which is simply, oh, Christ. I remorse already utilizing the phrase elegant.
A game I like is now even Bestest Bester. Colour me thrilled.
Thank you very much, @Maxthetics.
