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[The Showdown Effect] - Last Action Hero Standing
Jacobkosh
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Do you like action? I bet you do, because you're here.
Do you like movies? Hell, who doesn't?
Well, Hans. Bubbie. Have I got the thing for you.
Would this face lie?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k1qe5ybaS0
Jacobkosh here. What this game really reminds me of is a better-looking Soldat, but where the characters are action movie archetypes. I'm playing as Dutch McClone, the Austrian kindergarten teacher who's had his identity stolen and been sent through time. There is also a chubby black cop 2 days from retirement, a perky Asian inventor schoolgirl, a kung-fu master, etc etc.
The environments are stuff like an abandoned warehouse, a medieval castle, Tokyo in the future, and so forth. You can use elevators, slide down walls, and grab found objects like fire extinguishers to hit someone with, or bags of sand to block bullets. You can flying-tackle someone off a high ledge and roll unharmed off their corpse when the two of you hit the ground.
When the match is almost over it switches to Showdown Mode; during this mode there are no respawns, some (amazing) cock rock starts playing and the entire environment lights on fire. Depending on how well you did, you get points that you can spend to unlock new weapons, weapon skins (turn your katana into a lightsaber, or your pistol into the Blade Runner pistol), and characters.
It's not offically out till 3/5 but if you buy it before that (ten bucks) you get to play the beta RIGHT NOW.
It's a decade of classic action for the price of a single movie ticket. As a great man once said, if you like this sort of thing, then this is the sort of thing you'll like.
Do you like movies? Hell, who doesn't?
Well, Hans. Bubbie. Have I got the thing for you.
Would this face lie?
The Official Site wrote:The Showdown Effect is a 2.5D multiplayer action game inspired by 80’s and 90’s action movies. Champions from throughout time fight to death for fun, for glory and for awesome.
The focus of The Showdown Effect is in recreating the outrageous action found in classic action movies and taking them one step further. Players can pick weaponry from the silver screen's unparallelled arsenal, including shotguns, frying pans, lightsabers, assault rifles, grenades, katanas, gauss guns and anything in between. No explosion is too loud and no bullet dodge is implausible – The Showdown Effect is all about impaling your friend with nearby broomstick and dropping a “Stick around”-taunt as you jetpack heroically off to the next enemy.
Beneath all of this The Showdown Effect is heavily invested in the fundamentals of platforming, providing controls that are responsive and satisfying when it comes to simply running and jumping. Likewise, as a multiplayer game The Showdown Effect will offer all the progressive rewards and unlocks that players have come to love and to cherish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k1qe5ybaS0Jacobkosh here. What this game really reminds me of is a better-looking Soldat, but where the characters are action movie archetypes. I'm playing as Dutch McClone, the Austrian kindergarten teacher who's had his identity stolen and been sent through time. There is also a chubby black cop 2 days from retirement, a perky Asian inventor schoolgirl, a kung-fu master, etc etc.
The environments are stuff like an abandoned warehouse, a medieval castle, Tokyo in the future, and so forth. You can use elevators, slide down walls, and grab found objects like fire extinguishers to hit someone with, or bags of sand to block bullets. You can flying-tackle someone off a high ledge and roll unharmed off their corpse when the two of you hit the ground.
When the match is almost over it switches to Showdown Mode; during this mode there are no respawns, some (amazing) cock rock starts playing and the entire environment lights on fire. Depending on how well you did, you get points that you can spend to unlock new weapons, weapon skins (turn your katana into a lightsaber, or your pistol into the Blade Runner pistol), and characters.
It's not offically out till 3/5 but if you buy it before that (ten bucks) you get to play the beta RIGHT NOW.
It's a decade of classic action for the price of a single movie ticket. As a great man once said, if you like this sort of thing, then this is the sort of thing you'll like.
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Best moment edit: one time I tackled a guy off of a ledge and into a rocket his buddy had fired from below. I survived.
The game really lends itself to wildly cinematic moments. I was on the medieval map today and got caught in that little room with the bags of grain. Some dude was rushing at me, katana drawn, and I grabbed a grain bag, blocked his sword in the bag, and then pulled out my SMG and shot him. I could picture that scene in my head perfectly, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as me and maybe Al Leong as the other guy.
FF14: ARR
I kind of suck too. I'm doing a bit better now that I'm using all the control options, like holding RMB to see farther with a ranged weapon, but keeping the reticle on a dude is hard!
tips and trix