John Carpenter's Toxic Commando

Good game .

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I only recommend picking this up on a decent sale -- like 50% or more. It's a decent horde shooter with great graphics, minimal bugs, viable player classes/abilities, fun weapons, plenty of customizations, and smooth gameplay. The main issue, and it's a big one, is that this game is insanely repetitive and most of the things that set it apart from other horde shooters is just a handful of things that actually makes this game worse. A big feature of this game, for example, is the inclusion of the vehicles. The thing is, the vehicles control terrible, are slow AF, offer very little utility, and the entire map is singlehandedly designed with the idea that you're going to have an absolute blast constantly getting stuck in deep mud and thick vines. Literally, they thought "hey, let's add vehicles to this game" and then immediately someone was like "yeah, but let's make sure they're very slow and that the entire map is filled with nothing but things that the vehicles will get stuck in, rendering them completely useless and insanely frustrating!" It makes no sense and it's really 100% as stupid as it sounds. The vast majority of the time you are much better off just staying on foot. Additionally, not that these things are a huge surprise in a game like this, but the script is not even B-movie quality, it's horrendous. The characters are cliche archetypes, like always in games like this. There are only like 5 enemy types but it honestly just feels like there are 2 -- the basic zombie and then the special zombie, outside of that the differences really don't mean much. The guns look cool and feel different to use but truthfully it really does feel like a bullet is a bullet in this game, meaning that you're mostly just best off using whatever you're best able to fire quickly and aim well. There aren't really any strategic justifications for using a shotgun or a sniper, for example, and even the smgs are mostly just worse versions of the rifles. Playing this game is super frustrating because obviously members of the dev team put in a ton of effort to get this game to where it is but then no one stopped to care whether the game was actually fun. You just can't convince me that there was a consensus among the team that this game is fun and ready to be shipped out. If you have played a horde shooter before then you have played this game already, I promise you. This is the kind of game that depresses you about where some companies have clearly gotten to with game development. Toxic Commando is less of a game and more of a "Zombie game template" with a different skin on it and no actual fun gameplay mechanics added at all. You can play any map of this game, use any characters, use any gun, basically try to mix it up as much as you want, and it's still going to feel almost exactly the same because there's just literally nothing unique or interesting available to you in this game. It's a shame, really. It truly is.