Wow, what a goddamn thrill. A little indie title by a small developer, yet this feels like a million bucks. Smooth as hell, lightning fast and tight gameplay, it's lightning in a bottle.
Throw Doom Eternal + Hotline Miami + Mirror's Edge + Superhot + Max Payne in a blender and you'll get the delicious concoction that is Severed Steel.
Do you want to slide across the floor, jump into a wall run, then dive through a window into a room full of five guys while shooting them with an assortment of pistols, machine guns, shotguns, grenade launchers etc. etc., all while in glorious slo-mo? And then drop kick one of them when you run out of ammo, grab his gun out of mid air, and then blast him in the face splattering blood all over the wall? Then buckle up, baby!
Oh, and you also have an arm cannon that can strategically annihilate enemies into a red mist or blast holes in a fully destructible environment that you can use as a quick escape if you're overwhelmed; you can pull a Trinity from The Matrix and wall run up a wall, kick straight off the wall and jump through a hole in the ceiling you just made, while headshotting people as you do so. Come the fuck on!
The only thing stopping me from giving this 5 stars, is the lack of a plot (it really doesn't need one, it's all shooty shooty bang bang but some voice acting, cutscenes, etc. would be cool aside from the very minor animated snippets we get). Also there's only really one boss battle. Not a big nitpick, but whatever. Also, and probably my biggest gripe - I'm not totally in love with the whole cyber/tech/neon/whatever aesthetic; every level looks like you're in this metallic chrome cyberpunk box, it's all enclosed and tight but honestly feels like you're fighting inside some dude's custom built PC with cool lights inside for his CPU and fans. Some levels change it up a bit though which is nice. I'd be more into a gritty realistic look for a game like this (think John Woo's Stranglehold or Max Payne), and I'd love to see the developer's do a real world style game, exactly like this. And with some cool story elements and voice acting! Right now it feels like they have all the gameplay components, it would just be neat to see it presented differently.
I didn't Platinum this, there's some grind-y stuff and some difficulty based trophies that might give me a rough time, but I definitely will be hopping back into this to do some more stuff (there's tons of replay value, bonus missions, challenges, score attacks, and even level/gun modifiers and unlockable arm cannons, there's a ton here!).
Fuck yeah, Severed Steel. Fuck. Yeah.
Throw Doom Eternal + Hotline Miami + Mirror's Edge + Superhot + Max Payne in a blender and you'll get the delicious concoction that is Severed Steel.
Do you want to slide across the floor, jump into a wall run, then dive through a window into a room full of five guys while shooting them with an assortment of pistols, machine guns, shotguns, grenade launchers etc. etc., all while in glorious slo-mo? And then drop kick one of them when you run out of ammo, grab his gun out of mid air, and then blast him in the face splattering blood all over the wall? Then buckle up, baby!
Oh, and you also have an arm cannon that can strategically annihilate enemies into a red mist or blast holes in a fully destructible environment that you can use as a quick escape if you're overwhelmed; you can pull a Trinity from The Matrix and wall run up a wall, kick straight off the wall and jump through a hole in the ceiling you just made, while headshotting people as you do so. Come the fuck on!
The only thing stopping me from giving this 5 stars, is the lack of a plot (it really doesn't need one, it's all shooty shooty bang bang but some voice acting, cutscenes, etc. would be cool aside from the very minor animated snippets we get). Also there's only really one boss battle. Not a big nitpick, but whatever. Also, and probably my biggest gripe - I'm not totally in love with the whole cyber/tech/neon/whatever aesthetic; every level looks like you're in this metallic chrome cyberpunk box, it's all enclosed and tight but honestly feels like you're fighting inside some dude's custom built PC with cool lights inside for his CPU and fans. Some levels change it up a bit though which is nice. I'd be more into a gritty realistic look for a game like this (think John Woo's Stranglehold or Max Payne), and I'd love to see the developer's do a real world style game, exactly like this. And with some cool story elements and voice acting! Right now it feels like they have all the gameplay components, it would just be neat to see it presented differently.
I didn't Platinum this, there's some grind-y stuff and some difficulty based trophies that might give me a rough time, but I definitely will be hopping back into this to do some more stuff (there's tons of replay value, bonus missions, challenges, score attacks, and even level/gun modifiers and unlockable arm cannons, there's a ton here!).
Fuck yeah, Severed Steel. Fuck. Yeah.