Hard Reset Extended Edition

One day my friend the evil ifrit was scouring the wasteland of my Steam reviews. Stumbling upon my [i]Hard Reset: Redux[/i] one,he said: ‘Uh-uh. You know B-shooters? This is the gold of B-shooters. They ruined all the balance in [i]Redux[/i]’.   Well, sure, why not. The game looks attractive enough.   Going in on extreme difficulty. Should have known better given that having beaten the two remake [i]Shadow Warrior[/i] games I’m aware of [i]Flying Wild Hog’s[/i] propensity to morbidly bloat enemy health on higher difficulties.   But, y’know… Noblesse oblige ‘n shиt.       [h2]Bezoar Standards[/h2]   The game has a proper PDF manual. That should already tell you something.   This was released for PC only in 2011, when PC gaming was proclaimed dead for the hundred thousandth time. Which means the devs (many with [i]Painkiller[/i] portfolio) could spit upon console sensibilities and tech restrictions. So they wrote their own Road Hog Engine (with Havoc physics) – to make big detailed and optimized environments and break the curse of 3D shooters which had been forcing developers into putting fewer enemies on screen for a decade and a half.   The menu greets you with a mid-two-thousands …

This game makes me physically ill. Even after putting the field of view to 90 I get nausea and a headache. The fish eye effect and the screen shake just kill me. My rating for sensitive gamers 0/10, definitly not recommended and removed from library.

Well, it is what it is. Feels alot like playing a mix of half life, quake or one of the older dooms. But, the enemies are pretty dumb and it alot of situations you can hide, wait for them all to run to the same area, then take them out all at once. There's not a whole lot of challenge here unless you play on the higher levels. The game has a feeling of one arena area after another. The storyline itself is pretty non-existant. Having said all that, if all you want is to run around blowing stuff up, it is quite fun for that :D

An awesome game. :D

Excellent, with some caveats. Let me explain - this game is as sweet as honey-laced chocolate muffins with sprinkles on top and a soda on the side. i.e. it's really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tasty....the first few bites are heavenly....but after a bit, you want a little spice. Hard Reset looks absolutely gorgeous, plays like a ruddy charm, and has a consistent sense of character throughout. The cyberpunk cities, outskirts, junkyards, factories, all glisten and gleam with the rain-soaked metallic sheen that Blade Runner popularized (and eventually, mastered). Honestly, they've nailed this aspect of the game. After the first 5-6 hours of play, though, the incessant shooting gets tiring. First, you're always on edge (because this game is literally go here -> ah yes, 100 robots -> go there -> ah yes, 200 robots -> ad infinitum). There's no actual exploration, puzzle, no conversations or dialogue options, barely any lore or NON-COMBAT content. Second, the shooting has very little variety beyond a point. You have effectively 6-7 different weapon types, and while they all do a fantastic job and the combat really can be varied, strategic and tense, it's tiring to have to fight the same robots, which…

Wow, the moment I shot the first AC unit and it shortcircuited in a rain of electricity before exploding in flames, scattering debris across the street, I knew this was made by the same company that made Shadow Warrior. This time the setting is cyberpunk and you are fighting robots so there is no gory goodness and bloodshed, but even still the game managed to surprise me with the progressive dismandling of the bigger units. I love the devs' attention to detail, like how you start fighting a pristine looking robot and as the fight progresses its panels get torn off and its inner mechanisms become exposed so you can either shoot at its core for maximum destruction, or the leg joints, in which case the robot's lower half gets blown and it start trying to crawl on the ground in an attempt to claw at you. And of course the star of the game is enviromental destruction and mayhem and I can't get enough of it. The store signs hanging above get torn and fall down, shooting at lamps make them malfunction and slowly fade forever, cardboard gets torn to shred, pallets are broken to wooden planks, computer screens start malfuctioning at first, then get torn off from their stands and go blank…