Cruelty Squad

Deus Ex нашли в мусорке, облили кислотой, открыли в Paint и заставили работать на рынок органов. Первые минуты хочется закрыть игру из чувства самосохранения: интерфейс орет, цвета режут глаза, персонажи выглядят больными, мир будто собран из пластика, мяса и корпоративной шизофрении. Потом внезапно понимаешь, что под этим визуальным кошмаром лежит нормальный immersive sim: уровни открытые, подходов много, оружие разное, импланты меняют прохождение, задания можно решать грязно, быстро, тупо, умно или вообще через какую-то нечеловеческую дыру в системе. Это игра про мир, где капитализм окончательно победил, умер, воскрес и начал продавать собственные кишки по подписке. Она мерзкая, смешная, неудобная, злая и очень авторская. Вердикт: отвратительная на вид, крепкая внутри и абсолютно своя. Cruelty Squad надо не столько проходить, сколько пережить.

Despite being years since I first played it, I still think of Cruelty Squad often. I would say this repulsive, offputting game offers the best marriage between narrative and design of any I have ever played, and that is an extremely hotly-contested title. Everything about this game is so deliberately and perfectly calibrated to be as unenjoyable as possible that, in recommending it, I know there's a fair chance the person reading this will just bounce off it - but if you persevere, Cruelty Squad shares its fascinating, and gnostic worldview - that capitalism is a divine evil, analogising commerce as the bloodflow of the universe slowly being choked out by an all-too-deliberate and human corruption - in a more immersive and, inversely, intuitive manner than any other game I can name. A gaping-jawed monster of a fast-paced ImSim FPS that will leave you with food for serious thought, even if not meant to be interpreted literally, for years afterwards. I cannot recommend a game more heartily.

I don't get it and the controls feel like ass. Fails at having any real immersive sim depth so far, and the shooting isn't exaxtly carrying it either. Deeply annoying game shilled by very obnoxious people.

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My personal favourite Indie FPS! It is weird, it is unintuitive, it doesn't explain itself, the controls are made to be bad. That's why I have played it more than 9 Times, have all Achievements, got S Rank in every level on every difficulty and I will do it again. (Still want to do a no-death-run) You will get used to the art style, controls and mechanics. My only critique is that the Fishing is meh. It isn't necessary to get any ending but its unforgiving in its timing and boring. You are better of guessing when you will catch a rare fish then reacting to the 57ms Window of Opportunity. Please give it a shot!

[h2][b]"THE SUN SMILES AT YOU WITH ETERNAL MALICE."[/b][/h2] [i]Cruelty Squad[/i] is a game that I put off pretty much since it released, I followed a lot of the initial buzz but decided it simply wasn't for me after watching some of the gameplay, I am glad to say I was a complete moron. I'd like to call it immaturity that put me off even trying the game, in June 2021 I was 17 and frankly artistically inept, any sort of friction put me off in the slightest and I stuck to games I knew and was comfortable with instead of letting myself experience something new and bold like this is. This game is a playable art gallery, it is lathered in snark and vitriol towards capitalism as a whole, the global military industrial complex and the games industry, but while it throws critique at the wilting field of "gaming" it is simultaneously a gorgeously grotesque love letter to the imsim genre, classic PlayStation/DOS aesthetics, [i]Goldeneye 007[/i] and most importantly to me, FromSoftware's 1997 classic [i]Armored Core[/i]. [i]Cruelty Squad[/i] and [i]Armored Core[/i] go hand-in-hand, they both have finances as a core part of the gameplay and narrative, the Human Plus difficulty from [i]Armored Core[/i] is the exact same as the Power In Misery difficulty in [i]Cruelty Squad[/i] where you're offered financial freedom in the event of a death and have the difficulty drastically toned down, you modify individual parts of your character to best suit your needs for the mission at hand, every level has a ranking system mostly based on speed, etc, etc. It is not a comparison I thought I would find within a game like this and it made me so giddy realising it for the first time because I adore [i]Armored Core[/i] and the way mechanics like Human Plus are taken and given more depth and layering here is so smart. I really love this game, I've already spent countless hours going for speedruns to get S ranks and I'm excited to delve into some of the nooks and crannies to see what secrets I can find while I go for all the achievements. Such a fantastic work of art, please don't let the artstyle put you off, the gameplay sells itself so quickly that even if you're not a fan of the artistic brilliance on display you'll grow to love it in one way or another.

очень классная, графика хоть и заставляет вырвать глаза, но слепым играть тоже было очень интересно, различные враги, секретки, оружия, импланты, всё доставило удовольствие. Прошёл на 100 % и не пожалел