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Some will have shields, and other will have attacks that you’ll want to avoid before getting your own chance to attack. Failing to keep your momentum up can leave you in the line of fire, so the trick is to get in close and deliver a strike there.Ĭombat isn’t a simple case of running up to an enemy and striking him down either, since you can and have to pick different approach techniques based on the enemy type you’re facing. Most of that challenge isn’t in the combat (which is melee-focused and you can use bullet time to evade gun fire and other attacks), but requires precise movement and combos.

That’s all easier said than done though, as Ghostrunner is described as being ‘hardcore’ and is quite a bit harder than Mirror’s Edge was. Extreme jumps can be made easier with a grappling hook, and stringing together regular jumps, wall jumps and grappling can create a beautiful gameplay flow, especially when the sequence ends with you slashing your sword through an enemy that doesn’t know what hit him. Not doing so means you lose momentum, which often means you’ll fall to your demise or will need to start another run-up. The gameplay, as it is, would barely allow for this anyway – since the action is fairly non-stop and the parkour sections are challenging and require you to keep moving. This created a bit of a pacing issue in the narrative sense – not necessarily because the story is poorly paced but because the delivery of the story isn’t timed so that you can digest it during calmer moments of gameplay. Instead, much of the narrative is delivered through voiceovers that play as you’re scaling walls or are engaged with combat. Your job, as a cyber assassin, is to take him out.Īs mentioned, this is a narrative-driven game, but it doesn’t rely on cutscenes or set pieces like other games do.

Set in a relatively confined futuristic game world, Ghostrunner provides plenty of verticality by using a giant skyscraper as its central playground – one where humans are the minority and cyborgs are dominant, but also one where an evil ruler sits at the top of the building. It may not sport the same amount of detail and the world may be less vibrant and alive, but Ghostrunner is a gorgeous game that can rival what the AAA scene is putting out there. It not only embraces the kind of parkour gameplay that Mirror’s Edge pioneered, but also put it inside the context of a neon-drenched cyberpunk world not too unlike what CD Projekt Red is going to (for real this time) deliver to us next month.

There have been very few attempts at creating a narrative-driven experience with AAA production values though, and Ghostrunner is here to break that trend. There was a time where first person parkour was almost synonymous with Mirror’s Edge, but in recent years we’ve seen plenty of takes on the genre, including indie gems like Headup’s SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell – with many others also following that game’s emphasis on speed runs.

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It’s out now for consoles (there’s even a Switch version) and PC – we tested it on a PlayStation 4 Pro. It tells the story of a world that has already ended and its inhabitants who fight to survive.Ghostrunner is one of the best in the parkour genre we’ve seen so far. Ghostrunner offers a unique single-player experience: fast-paced, violent combat, and an original setting that blends science fiction with post-apocalyptic themes. Use your superior mobility (and frequent checkpoints!) to engage in a never-ending dance with death fearlessly. One-hit one-kill mechanics make combat fast and intense. Slice your enemies with a monomolecular katana, dodge bullets with your superhuman reflexes, and employ a variety of specialized techniques to prevail. A final attempt to set things right before mankind goes over the edge of extinction.Īs the most advanced blade fighter ever created, you’re always outnumbered but never outclassed. Mara the Keymaster rules with an iron fist and little regard for human life.Īs resources diminish, the strong prey on the weak and chaos threatens to consume what little order remains.

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The streets of this tower city are full of violence. Make your way up from the bottom to the top, confront the tyrannical Keymaster, and take your revenge. Climb Dharma Tower, humanity’s last shelter, after a world-ending cataclysm. Ghostrunner is a hardcore FPP slasher packed with lightning-fast action, set in a grim, cyberpunk megastructure.

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