If you haven’t performed 2013’s Receiver, you’ve missed out on a number of the finest shoots in videogames. It’s an FPS roguelike the place you roam about on rooftops, heading off turrets and drones with a gun that wants extra consideration than a two-year outdated. There are separate buttons to slip in particular person bullets, fiddle with safeties, and do this primey factor the place you slide the highest again. I’ve received little interest in real-life firearms, however panicking about these items in the midst of a shootout is nice.
Developers Wolfire games have simply revealed Receiver 2 is popping out on April 14th, and can let me do all of this once more with fiddlier and prettier weapons. I’m going to have a lot gun.
Let’s simply gloss over Wolfire’s entire ‘hahaha, we said the game was coming later than it actually is’ factor.
I by no means got here near discovering all of them, however the aim in Receiver was to gather tapes a couple of mysterious, presumably psychic robo-pocalypse. They’re tucked away in random residences, guarded by turrets with weakspots. You may shoot out a sensor and blind one, or blast a gap in its firing mechanism. There had been terrifying, flying Half-Life style manhacks to fret about, too.
Wolfire say it will have “the same basic gameplay structure as the first, but more of everything. There are many more sidearms available in Receiver 2, and while Receiver 1 simulated several moving parts for each gun, Receiver 2 simulates *all* of the moving parts.” They’re apparently “doubling down on the aspects that made the original stand out: the detailed firearm controls and the tense, surreal atmosphere.”
I do hope they haven’t gone overboard. The actual thrill of Receiver got here when your thoughts managed to automate all of the fiddliness, and also you discovered your self subconsciously hammering by means of the convoluted means of reloading whereas ducking round a drone’s whirring sawblades. It could be a disgrace in the event that they’ve made that aim too irritating to achieve.
If you’ll be able to’t wait until the 14th, Receiver 1 is nicely value a play. Graham as soon as praised it to high heaven for the way in which it let him specific himself.
It additionally received an replace last year, and is at present 80% off on Steam. That is an excellent approach to spend £1/$1/€1.
