God the drop in quality between Heist & The Hazardous and this is staggering.
What started out as a pretty alright horde mode/survival mode turned into a god awful monotonous slog of pretty much doing the same thing over and over again with 4 different characters that all play the same with zero enemy or map variety.
I get that Volition wanted to give this reboot it's own Super Ethical Reality Climax and the murder circus was the closest thing they had to it, but this mode lives or dies on whether or not you think the combat in the fun/good, and personally as I've been replaying through the game I find the combat slow sluggish and dull. The SR3 and 4's combat wasn't great either but at least in that game most fights ended within five minutes. Every enemy in this game is super bullet spongy and nine times out of ten the high power guns you're using feel less like guns and more life BBguns.
Each run is around 44 to 50 minutes long, and you have four different characters to play as, each can be leveled up to level 8 which can take 3 to 4 runs for one character. Do the math and it becomes really evident how this DLC gets really boring really fast.
The one part of this DLC that completely eludes me is why this glorified horde mode doesn't even let you play in co-op, a mode like this was made with multiplayer in mind so why not at least give it as an option? This whole DLC feels so slapdash together it's pathetic they expect $10 for this. The Genkibowl DLC from SR3 was 5 dollars and you pretty much got what this DLC would've given you, a piss poor expansion of a mode you played in the base game. But at least Genkibowl was 5 dollars
What started out as a pretty alright horde mode/survival mode turned into a god awful monotonous slog of pretty much doing the same thing over and over again with 4 different characters that all play the same with zero enemy or map variety.
I get that Volition wanted to give this reboot it's own Super Ethical Reality Climax and the murder circus was the closest thing they had to it, but this mode lives or dies on whether or not you think the combat in the fun/good, and personally as I've been replaying through the game I find the combat slow sluggish and dull. The SR3 and 4's combat wasn't great either but at least in that game most fights ended within five minutes. Every enemy in this game is super bullet spongy and nine times out of ten the high power guns you're using feel less like guns and more life BBguns.
Each run is around 44 to 50 minutes long, and you have four different characters to play as, each can be leveled up to level 8 which can take 3 to 4 runs for one character. Do the math and it becomes really evident how this DLC gets really boring really fast.
The one part of this DLC that completely eludes me is why this glorified horde mode doesn't even let you play in co-op, a mode like this was made with multiplayer in mind so why not at least give it as an option? This whole DLC feels so slapdash together it's pathetic they expect $10 for this. The Genkibowl DLC from SR3 was 5 dollars and you pretty much got what this DLC would've given you, a piss poor expansion of a mode you played in the base game. But at least Genkibowl was 5 dollars