Showgunners

Wasted potential. On paper, the creators had a recipe for something great but they squandered it on a bland, repetitive and very poorly balanced experience. STORY - predictable from the first cutscene that hints at the protagonist's motivations and it unfolds exactly as you expect it to with zero twists. It's as straightforward as US foreign policy. AUDIO - repetitive and grating music tracks. Voice acting is alright, although for some reason half the time the protagonist sounds like she's about to cry. GRAPHICS - alright, nothing to write home about. Although due to the camera angle the levels you explore feel extremely claustrophobic. PERFORMANCE - it played fairly well at max settings on my old PC for 90% of the game, but the final levels stuttered a lot due to the insane amount of enemies. GAMEPLAY - Here's where the game fell apart for me due to the lack of balance: 1) Enemies have just enough health to not be one-shot by your attacks. And when you get stronger guns... you guessed it, enemies get a bump in health. There are vendor kiosks in the base and throughout the game's stages, but the guns you find in boxes or receive as rewards are always better. Purchased weapons may have better damage stats, but they are quickly outclassed by found armaments. Save your money for grenades which are found only rarely and are very useful. 2) You are always outnumbered. Eventually, your character roster grows to six characters, but you can only ever bring three to big battles (except for the finale) while always being outnumbered at least 4:1. In some of the later battles there are so many enemies that it can take a few minutes for them all to complete their moves. 3) Disparity between the shots enemies can take and your characters can take. It feels like the enemies' guns are not limited by the effective range parameter and your cover may as well not exist for them. Enemies will hit you while you're in cover much more consistently than you do them, so you may as well not even try and risk flanking instead. Some specialist enemies outright feel like they actually ignore cover and always hit. 4) Enemies spam overwatch so much it actually becomes annoying and drags battles out. 5) Each enemy type has a specific type of armour that your guns are effective against. But instead of the gun tooltip telling you that this or that gun is effective against a particular type of enemy, it tells you what type of armour it's effective against. Better hope you can remember at a glance which enemy wears which armour, and there are ten or more enemy types in the game. 6) Most of the time enemy behaviour is very predictable. Except when you use one particular ability which either breaks the enemies' AI or is intentionally made to make enemies behave differently to how they normally do so this particular ability doesn't become too useful despite its long cooldown. 7) There could have been so much more done with the base where your team members rest between missions. With the way it is implemented, It could have been cut from the game and replaced with cutscenes and nothing would be lost. It serves as a bit of padding to make you run around some more and click some interactables and nothing else. 8) Gun magazines are much too small. Most guns need to be reloaded every 2 or 3 shots, which only further serves to pad the battles by making you waste actions. There are even guns with just 1 shot. Those are fun to use... (/s) Then there's a very strong character who never needs to reload her gun without any downside to balance it out. Get it only if it's heavily discounted because the execution doesn't hold up to the interesting premise.

题材和画风都不喜欢，回合制战斗玩法还不错，但关卡中间又夹杂了很多无聊的探索和“解谜”，没太大意思。

[b]Story[/b]: Running Man meets Death Race, kind of. Thin plot. No fetch quests, no gameplay-altering lore/intel/voxophone collection, just one main story - get to the top and over it. Just the way I like it. [b]Gameplay[/b]: I come from Firaxis XCOM, so I'll use that as a basis for the review. The encounters are XCOM-lite, but the small maps + more frequent encounters with 0 pod mechanics are more Chimera Squad. The limit of 3 deployable characters in each encounter means less theorycrafting about character skill combinations. I am currently only at 60% of base game completion, but so far, the characters are simple but differentiated enough. It does not feel like one is just the stronger version of the other. Enemy archetypes are also simple (minion/melee/assault?/healer/summoner/heavy/sniper so far). Simple mechanics mean simple tactics, but there's still enough for skill expression. The semi-open world exploration map is lootboxes (guns/supplies/mods) for your characters, autographs (get enough of them for better team/main character mods), optional encounters with better lootboxes, and booby traps/puzzles that can damage you before your next encounter. There's a lower proportion of exploration than there is base-building in XCOM, meaning more time just fighting enemies. [b]Balance[/b]: Not great, but serviceable. In XCOM2 terms, your main character is a Ranger with easy access to Run&Gun (with clunkier controls, so be careful), passive Reaper (melee kills refund action points), multiple copies of Blademaster (+melee damage), a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of mobility, active full-turn + enemy turn gunfire immunity, Shadowstep (immunity to triggering overwatch). The rifle butt is a better weapon than the rifle. +mobility spam is just too good. There's enough damage to go around. The side characters are more balanced with more pronounced weaknesses, mostly relating to the lack of action economy gamebreakers. Unique encounter mods allow for some skill expression, but alpha-striking, usually with a rifle butt, beats all. [b]Aesthetic[/b]: Not a triple-A game, and not to be treated as such. I'm always a sucker for bloody top-down action, and this does not disappoint. Plenty of blood for everyone. The announcer is a little mixed. Can be grating after a while. Could use some idle filler between characters, like small talk, not that I mind the quiet. [b]Bugs[/b]: a few gameplay bugs here and there, like being unable to shoot the objective. The game freezes once in a while. Enough bugs for deter me from considering ironman. The initial loading is long and it's hard to tell if the game has frozen or is just trying to load. [b]Overall[/b]: solid 8/10 game. I was looking for an XCOM-lite with a different aesthetic, and I found it. I have mixed feelings about buying it at sticker price, but highly recommended when steeply discounted!

XCOM美味代餐，感觉比奇美拉小队好玩 流程较短，通最高难度且不怎么SL的情况下花了22小时。对这口大美战棋有兴趣的话，枪手真人秀的战术选择难度会比XCOM2低一些，后期则持平，各种意义上适合新手体验。[spoiler]但如果你是老登的话就会嫌前期遭遇多还无聊[/spoiler] 高情商：难度曲线比XCOM2好 低情商：孩子们我又碰到复制人伏击战了 游戏接近终盘时无论是遭遇设计还是角色能力都有着质的飞跃：在前者的方面，不搞血牛多动BOSS的同时设计出了几场相当不错的战斗，值得借鉴。后者则终于允许你全员上阵，并且个体强度嘛.... 女主/黑客/榴弹哥这离谱性能，打最高难度都是碾过去的，尤其女主，配合AOE能搞出一轮七连肘七连杀 要是愿意勤SL来个无伤应该也简单，纯爽游好吧）

小众宝藏，超出预期

[h3]Let the Carnage Begin[/h3] The Running Man (1987) with Arnold Schwarzenegger, XCOM gameplay and the atmosphere of Cyberpunk 2077. Yeah. Give me two.

Really fun XCOM style tactics game with interesting enemies and characters. It's a shame that most of the characters don't have an arc, or any agency, and just go along with the MC, without any question or complaint. It feels like the creators had bigger plans for all of them, and the story in general, but in the end, all of it got cut for time or cost.

le gameplay au tour par tour est bien fait (déplacements, angles de visée, armes et actions de combat). Trop simplifié par rapport à un Xcom. Décors sympas mais beaucoup trop sombres pour une bonne visibilité des ennemis (malgré l'icone colorée du type d'ennemi à l'écran). Un malheureux bug a fini par me faire lâcher l'affaire (un personnage bloqué dans le décor pendant une phase d'exploration). La goutte d'eau qui a fait déborder le vase, en qq sorte, car : - les chargements des maps sont trop longs. - l'IA des ennemis rend les combats trop faciles (parfois les ennemis restent à l'écart en mode surveillance) - les phases d'exploration façon puzzle n'apportent rien au jeu, et deviennent au bout d'un moment lassantes. Surtout qu'au final, on y passe autant de temps que sur les combats au tout par tour. Il aurait été plus intéressant de remplacer ça par des pages BD scénarisées.

游戏是好游戏，如果不算每天闪退20次的话。身体交换之祸咯！

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