As dead as one can be. This review will be extremely short as there's not much to really say about the game, also there's no story so we go straight to graphics.
Graphics:
Random Access Murder art style is something that I love with all my heart and that's the 80's esque neon colors, almost like it's Tron. The game looks pleasing on the surface, however one thing I'm not entirely fond of is the flashing lights when you fire explosive weapons, the flashing could easily induce epilepsy in a person. I'm not epileptic, but it hurt my eyes pretty badly when I stared at them.
Audio:
The music itself is probably the best part of the game. It's a very nice synth esque soundtrack and even though they are pretty short, before the loop restarts I still enjoyed it quite a bit.
Gameplay:
From the store page and other reviews I could piece together that the game main gimmick is to cause a memory leak to other players which you do by shooting them with guns scattered around the various arenas, which causes all sorts of random glitches and things and that's honestly a very cool mechanic, too bad the game is insanely dead.
I only bought this game because I'm on a quest to get every game that was given out on Humble Monthly bundles when I wasn't buying them. With that in mind and the negative rating on the store page I would have gathered that the game was both dead and not very good and yeah that's the case.
There's not a single person playing this game, actually looking up the game on steamdb charting revealed that I was the only person playing within the last couple of days with the recent peak being a few days ago and then again nothing but silence.
Also there's plenty of bugs in the arena where you can clip through walls and fall through the map, so I can see it becoming a very annoying game to play if you can actually manage to get a full lobby, which is very unlikely.
Verdict:
Random Access Murder is not worth it at all. The game is dead without any chance of a revival, not to mention the dev promised updates, but those never came, so it's dead on all fronts. I paid 47 cents for it and all I got is a game no one plays, so take the advice of everyone else and stay away.
Final Rating:
1/10
Pros:
+ Great soundtrack
Cons:
- Fully abandoned
- Fully Dead
- Pretty buggy
- Can cause seizures, not to mention there's NO WARNING about this
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