Xotic

Tags: 1PS - First Person Shooter Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Thematic and flavorful. Repetitive, formulaeic, dated, confused design choices, lack of fluid controls. Try Mirror's Edge instead. https://store.steampowered.com/app/17410/Mirrors_Edge/ For proper RPG-like shooter experiences play a Bioschock, system shock, deus ex and the like. While for proper shooter go for the Doom remake or go back to classics. For Parkour I would suggest trying Mirror's Edge. This hybrid game means well but falls short and is too shallow to warrant keeping in permanent library. You get to wield a insect gun shoot at alien eggs while getting chased around by near invisible shades with red eyes. Its a hybrid first person RPG with parkour and speed run elements and fairly satisfying shooting mechanics. Fully featured with Xbox360 pad support out of box, nice resolution support and an awesome sci fi setting. Speed run fast paced twitch arcade shooter with variety of alien guns that behave in interesting ways. Very immersive with really gripping soundstage and effects. The odd puppy crying sound when shooting main foes might had been better served with something else however. Visuals feel great. Map design is a strange mix of obstacles and tunnels funelling your progression but also giving you opportunities to spot ways to progress vertically or do stunts for better visibility, better shooting angles, or to hit a high value target for your chains. Different mode change when the exit portal shows up. Campaign mode is most intuitive with it simply showing up when enemies are cleared, giving you the leisure to go back and finish off the easter egg hunt for all the eggs or just leaving. The terraform was a really nice way of rewarding completionists and even brings this game a lot closer to something like Viscera Cleanup Detail with time attack than just a pure shooter. Offers Xbox360 pad support which would probably be unsuitable for all but the easy mode. Game has modern PC resolutions support. Excellent work on the art direction, the lighting effects, voice effects, autotuned announcer, sci fi setting, insect-like hybrid RPG system with +stats and different weapon types. Game has squads of defenders as well as a bunch of neon eggs that you pop by shooting. Creating chain reactions, getting high scores which in turn can reward you more experience and I believe give you special power ups such as double jump flight and other strange momentary mutations. Its fast paced and time attack, but with the DLC if you hit a wall you can try levels from the alternative campaigns for variety. The enemies are not terribly smart but you will be hopelessly distracted by trying to score high points and will deprioritize them instinctively. To make matters worse they tank quite a lot of damage, but how many of them are present and how much health heach has is clearly represented so you have no excuse for not soaking in the fire to fdrop one down. They are made even deadlier by their natural camouflage which often blends to near perfection in the surroundings. Their red eyes usually give them away which was just genius character design. Unfortunately Xotic is far from being a perfect game. The mouse sensitivity, even after manual tweaking still seems a tad sluggish and imprecise. The parkour elements are not well executed at all, you can hardly jump, wallclimb or use abities to help gracefully navigate the environment. Often, a series of chambers can be partially completed by finding just the right angle to shoot from and making long distance shots. However the inability to get to those spots and back elegantly really takes apart from that approach. Additionally if you do not simply rampage and do close range attacks you will not gather the reward gems that fall off of the targets and will slow down your grind for character attributes and gun upgrades. The animation that switches from gun to gun simply shows a variety of mehcanism, gears, and gadgets realign themselves with insect parts on your arm. Which is very thematic and cool but it makes it very hard to tell if are wielding the electric taser, the grenade launcher, the shotgun or the pulse gun. Which incidentally is what they are, reskinned conventional human weapons that otherwise behave in very familiar ways. Which might be a missed opportunity for what is otherwise a very alien looking arsenal. Since every gun looks the same it is hard to swap halfway through run and gun for a more effective weapon for contextual reasons. Along with the inability to trickjump or do anything else thats fancy it makes for a very linear, somewhat boring corridor-like shooting experience in which you run in circles for easter egg targets hidden in nooks and cranny to shoot at. There are multiple campaigns but each one is just a series of half a dozen hexes to be navigated in order, each containing a small arena/instance with a bunch of targets and a few hostiles. Between the terraforming, the combat, the gem gathering and everything else there is a lot to keep fingers and your attention busy with. However they are always presented in the same way, and it becomes repetitive. Similarly the assets lose their novelty after a while and you will find that you are always in the same kind of caverns, shooting the same shades, popping the same eggs, and harvesting the same crystals. Which means that even though each campaign is short by the midpoint of the solo campaign you will lose interest. Conclusion: While Xotic makes a solid first imrpession it is a rather shallow experience and after a few play sessions, between the shades that make puppy noises, the somewhat annoying glow that you cannot disable without introducing visual artifacting, the repetitive gameplay, confused weapon loadout, unfluid controls and the lack of real world design or proper sci fi developments in the story or world stage, it becomes really hard to care. I would rather stick with playing the Doom Remake than trying to spice things up with an old title like this unfortunately.

I just think this isn't a game for me. I found the play-field extremely cluttered and it was hard to discern what was what (played in 4K). Admittedly, I only played about 10 levels..so maybe things improve, but somehow I think the core game play will remain the same throughout. The controls feel a little sluggish and weapons provide almost no feedback. If you want to be constantly shooting at everything on screen and rushed to collect everything, than this is your game. If you are looking for a good FPS...maybe look elsewhere.

I really love this game, even though it can be a little buggy sometimes. Still waiting for the dlc... or remaster :P

I've owned this for a long time and never realized you could spell toxic with the letters in the title. Recommended.

A fun, intense and well-made game. Incredible amounts of replayability. For a simple game it feels like more than what there is. Excellent game if you like combo point based games.

O jogo é bacana, mas abusa rapidinho. rsrsrs