Hard Reset Extended Edition

[i]TL;DR runs great on modern hardware (Win 11 4k240p), a vintage style game which is fun, but bad combat due repetition and a lack of feedback and cues. Redux does not fix my issues. Go play Painkiller: Black Edition instead.[/i] I agree and disagree with other reviewers. [b]The Misunderstood[/b] Jumping was clunky, movement was sluggish, level design was weird – that’s the point. It's probably one of the biggest selling points of Hard Reset: a (then) modern retelling of vintage fps. I didn’t feel nostalgia for getting lost in the map design though. [b]The Bad[/b] Where it really lost me was the lack of feedback from game mechanics. A wave of enemies would rush at you. So you run for cover. But this isn’t a cover shooter, so there are little places to hide, and you’ll get hit with their massive AOE. It’s also not a run and gun shooter, as the environments are small with little place to hide in the open (take the gorillas in the first couple levels). So what do you do? There are no real sound or visual cues as to if you hit a critical, or kill an enemy or really, do anything. Their ragdolls or stuns to the floor sometimes get lost in the action and I get hit by an enemy I t…

It's like Serious Sam or Painkiller set in a dystopian cyberpunk world. Game has nice graphics, upgradeable weapons, nonstop action and lots of achievements. However, it can be a little messy and hard sometimes. But overall, it is a really good and solid game.

Not the worst but I don't see myself playing this again. The game was made some of the guys who made Painkiller a wonderful FPS from the 2000's. So my expectations were high. This game has a lot of hard spikes even normal, some areas will take multiple attempts till the enemies and your aim line up just right. I get the concept your a human taking on enemy machines so of course your at a disadvantage and they take way more punishment than you, but it makes for a very maddening gameplay loop. The big ones who like to charge at you are especially annoying since their charge does a lot of damage and when they put more than one in an area I keep getting blind sided by the second one after dodging the first, most of my deaths came from them. The bosses expecially brutal since they have different phases and summon enemies to attack you while they attack you. The game has explosives and electrical panels everywhere in the environment which is handy since enemies follow you everywhere, at first, later on certain enemies have weaponry and tend to shot from afar so I always resort to just using my gun anyway, in bigger fights its irritating to take damage from enemies while your focus…

A bug made it unplayable.

Fantastic fun! love the way this makes you feel ,like a kid again!

This is the definition of mixed bag. Art style and atmosphere is amazing. Graphics are great for a 2012 game, effects and carnage you can cause in a firefight are pretty glorious to behold. Sountrack is pretty cool, fits the whole cyberpunk style. HOWEVER, this is one tough cookie to swallow. Level design is pretty ♥♥♥♥, there's a lot of tight corridors with a little room to dodge or wiggle and this is arena shooter style of game. This leads to a lot of frustraiting deaths just because you are having a hard time dodging incoming attacks. Movement is sluggish and feels half baked. It's floaty and weird. Jumping is practically useless. Leads to alot of frustrations, especially if you are trying to get to some of the secret areas. Weapons, while cool in concept (you start with 2, but by upgrading them you can get as much as 10) are mostly pointless. Enemies don't have any obvious weaknesses to any particular kind of gun, so why use most of them when you can get RPG and Railgun combo and just spam that till you see the end credits. Speaking of enemies, there's like 5 of them, by the level 3 you have seen the whole roster. Cool designs. Game is pretty short, you can run through i…