Hardstrike: The Fall

A nice nostalgic game in terms of gameplay and visuals, but it still needs a lot of polish before its full release. You take the role of an agent who’s apparently the only one who can stop global terrorist threat. There’s a nice amount of text with various characters, but the story isn’t really that unique. Besides, it is more important how it plays. In short, it feels like a missing mod or a tribute to the original Deus Ex game. Shooting requires patience. To hit the target exactly where you want, you need to focus by allowing four arrows to move near to the central dot. Crouching makes this go faster. However, the range is still limited, and you cannot snipe headshots with a handgun. That is, even if you have a flawless shot, you might still miss badly. Melee weapons can also focus. While targeting is not important in a direct fight, you can take out an enemy with a single hit if you attack from behind. In combat, the damage you sustain matters. While a wounded head and torso induce only minor disorientation, injured arms and legs reduce your efficiency. So a hurt arm will limit your capacity to focus, while a hurt leg will limit your ability to sprint. There is a separate health panel that allows you to heal each bodily part individually. One of the four bars displays health. The remaining three bars represent armor, stamina, and visibility. Stamina is just needed for running; it does not hinder you from spamming melee attacks. However, visibility is problematic. Crouching is the most effective strategy to move about because it keeps you hidden. The worst are jumping and sprinting, which draw everyone's attention right away. The issue is that you never know how well the enemy sees you. This produces strange circumstances in which you sneak a few feet away from an attacker who looks right at you and acts as if you are invisible. Then you release the crouch button, and he immediately notices you and starts shooting. Although stages and situations allow for either a direct or stealth approach, stealth is less appealing because shooting is simply more effective. You can save at any point and try again if something does not work, but each failed stealth attempt results in a shootout anyway. Taking out enemies using stealth is inconvenient because they do not walk in a straight line. They are always twitching and looking in all directions, so hitting them in the back with a baton is out of the question because you would always be noticed. Besides, enemies don’t act smart even during shootouts. They run around for no apparent reason, and they hardly bother to shoot at you. There are several objectives per stage, and you earn experience points for completing them. You also get points for finding hidden paths such as vents or take care of secondary missions that you need to find. Sadly, there are no waypoints. This is painful in a big city stage where you have a bunch of streets and no orientation. Experience points allows you to upgrade skills. It’s pretty standard stuff, such as faster targeting with different weapons, less time spent on lockpicking, and faster movement. You can upgrade and downgrade freely. Interaction buttons are used to open doors, pick up items, and use stuff. When you get close to useful goods, they get a large square around them, making them difficult to overlook. Aside from the most useful goods, it is possible to pick up and throw most small objects, such as chairs and flower pots. This also works with some heavy things, albeit they can only be dragged and pulled across the floor. You will need to manage your inventory because space is limited. The larger the item, the more squares it will require. The only thing that does not take up space is keys that are automatically added to your keychain. This eliminates the need to worry about using the correct key on the appropriate door. Of course, if you do not want to search for a key, you can always try to pick a lock with a lock pick or hacking machine. However, such item can only be used once. Sadly, not all doors can be opened. Overall, this might turn into a fine game. It will appeal to those who can ignore or appreciate the visual and old-school gameplay. However, it needs better enemy behavior and more visual hints on certain maps on points of interest.

Game plays like a worse Deus ex with a nonsense plot and bad gameplay. The maps are to big with nothing to do in them and you can get lost. Game also can crash easily. 0 stars

Stylized to look like an old-school game The engine is interesting, allows you to interact with the game world in different ways, but the artificial intelligence of the NPCs leaves much to be desired

it's just good. the graphics are nostalgic, the story and the variability of the gameplay show that the game is made with love. even such little things as the swaying textures of people during applause are taken into account and are pleasing. add achievements and collectible cards and it will be super cool.

nice game, like shooting

Вернулся сразу в 2000 вспомнил все классные игры которые выходили! Думаю что разработчики доведут все до умаю и будет просто хит!

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[b]Hardstrike: The Fall könnte der fast perfekte Retro-Ego-Shooter sein (es hat aber etwas Schwächen)[/b] Das Intro ist wie ein kleiner Kinofilm. +Überzeugend gute Synchronisation +Die allgemeine Vertonung ist gut (viel Panik und Geschrei) +Unglaublich viel Action in den ersten paar Minuten +Es läuft sogar auf Low-End-Systemen ziemlich gut -Der Preis ist mit 14,79€ zu hoch angesetzt (im Wintersale 5,17€) -Leider ist die Sprachausgabe nur auf Englisch -Das Intro-Video lässt sich nicht wegdrücken [h3]Ladet mein PS4 Controller-Profil herunter, damit lässt sich das Spiel relativ gut spielen.[/h3]