John Wick Hex

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this game is 100% strategy, stating it has action elements is like saying Fire Emblem is an action-strategy game. i love the premise of this game, but I feel the game must be short in reality because it's pretty difficult. not sure if this game was developed without the devs seeing the movie, but my biggest issue with it is that it is TOO strategy. you are basically forced to think all your moves through, and it feels like the game is designed to not let me stylishly play through a level. there is a nightclub level very early on into the game, and if you recall the nightclub scene from John Wick 1, you'll recall that most of it was pretty fluid action once John was discovered, as he purused his target through the club, barely stopping for anything, giving a solid demonstration of gunkata as he dispatched the guards in front of him. this game has the skeleton of that system, but with how much strategy is required, trying for a stylish approach ends up falling flat, and usually gets you killed. it's not impossible to do, but you'll find it very difficult. what absolutely kills the "stylish" approach though is the payoff, when you watch a replay of your run, the camera angles…

The design of the whole thing really clicks right into place and when you get a flow going, it's a great game.

[h1]John Wick Hex[/h1] [quote][i]Every strategy game promises that you'll feel like the hero. This one actually pulls it off — and it does it by making you slow down.[/i][/quote] [h3]The timeline is the whole game[/h3] Time only moves when you commit to an action, and everything you and every enemy do gets laid out on a bar at the bottom of the screen with an exact cost. [list] [*][b]Rolling[/b] takes this long [*][b]Reloading[/b] takes longer [*][b]That guy's shot[/b] lands in half a beat [/list] So you sit there staring at it, doing arithmetic, and then you press the button and watch it play out as a single unbroken piece of gun-fu that looks exactly like something you'd see in the movies. The gap between [i]"I spent ninety seconds planning this"[/i] and [i]"that took two seconds and looked incredible"[/i] is the best thing about the game. [h3]It nails the tone without feeling like a cash-in[/h3] The art direction is all flat color and hard shadow — comic-book minimalism that reads instantly. [b]Ian McShane[/b] and [b]Lance Reddick[/b] show up as Winston and Charon and sound exactly like they should. [b]Austin Wintory's[/b] score does a lot of heavy lifti…

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the game is fun and the tatical / puzzle loop is also fun as you play you learn how to position yourself and move and what fights to pick. but if theres more than 2 enemies your basicly garented to take 3 or 4 damage and when you only have 10 health it adds up way too fast. you dont feel like a deadly killer when you kill someone it feels like you have a impact if you didnt pick it up in time your not missing much