Vanquish

Это действительно драйвовый и захватывающий шутер от третьего лица. Да, кампания хоть и коротковата, но это не мешает ей быть потрясающей игрой. И главное: управлять ею с клавиатуры и мыши — одно удовольствие!

Es un juego muy corto, la historia es malísima y esta atrapada en los típicos clichés de película ochentera de acción... Me encanta <3 Es divertidísimo, super acelerado y una pena que no dure más tiempo. Pero Mikami lo compensa dejando que le dispares)?

Абсолютно даремно усіма забута перлина ігор 10х років. Ось як ви собі уявляєте найбільш екшонову гру усіх часів? Якби ви це не уявили, Vanquish ще крутіше. Це просто безперевний потік крутості, драйву і виєбонів. В геймплейному плані, тут майже все ідеально. Велике різноманнітя стволів, ворогів, різних ситуацій і тд. Просто ну бляха разйоб як весело. Сюжет - нууууууу його майже нема. Є зла рашка, є(спойлер!) не сильно краща Америка і вони рішили повоювати по приколу. А ми бравий вояка, який дуже крутий і за все хороше, проти всього поганого. Впринципі всьо. Але як же ♥♥♥ драйвово і весело це грати. Усім хто пропустив - безмежно рекомендую!

[b] Very Great fast-paced game, this game is from 2010 and still its every better than games released today, the story is too awesome and the graphics are still super good for the days of today and as well the game is kinda hardcore, the enemies are very strong that make you tired but still never up to give up, kinda short and the bosses are good and interesting not being so complicated to defeat it, love this game for everything, should have been a continuation but who knows anytime on future, the game still has much potential and totally recommend it, very good for real. Other similiar game that is very good as vanquish it's BInary Domain at which i recommend and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance as well.

I absolutely adore this game. It is insanely fast paced, action packed, and rewards you for playing it well. The better you play, the more badass you feel. If you are a fan of fast action games with fun boss encounters and destroying thousands of robots who cross your path, then you should definitely pick this up. This version makes the third one I have purchased since the game first released. It's that good.

I never understood the reverence for this game. The game balance for this game is totally screwed up, even the developers are on record admitting that I believe. This entire game revolves around you managing your energy meter. It's the only way you'll be able to boost around the map and take out enemies in a stylish and effective matter. The problem is that the energy meter just isn't balanced well. You spend way too much time hiding in cover waiting for your energy meter to recover. For a game praised as the anti-cover shooter, you sure do spend A LONG time in cover either to recover health or energy. The worst sin is the melee button. You have an entire button dedicated to very stylish melee attacks, but they're totally useless. They drain your energy completely and overheat your character. It's basically a death sentence to use melee. The developers were against the clock to release this game originally, so they did what they could to balance the game the best they could. No excuse why they didn't properly tweak the game for this Steam release. I can forgive some crappy game design if the story or vibe is interesting, but it's simply not here. I truly hate everything about the story, characters, voice acting, etc with this game. It's trying to be cool, but it comes across as lame as hell. You're forced to endure the story too, you can't skip numerous scenes in this game. It's awful. 6/10 game.

[h1]Solid Cover Shooter that Could Have Been So Much More[/h1] Vanquish is a sci-fi action cover shooter directed by Shinji Mikami, one of the best directors in the history of game design. Resident Evil 1, 4, Godhand, do I even need to go on after all that? The man has an impressive resume and knows how to get the most out of a game's systems whilst pushing skilled players yet creating an experience rewarding and well paced enough to make it inviting to novices. Vanquish for the most part is no exception, though it could have been better. To start off with, much like Mikami's other games, the story in Vanquish isn't why you play the game. It's a fairly bog standard tale about an evil Russian Dr. Robotnik who hijacks a space colony and is threatening to piss on the world after pissing on San Francisco which, as one of the protagonists points out, "was for the good of all America!" So Sonic the Hedgehog, I mean Sam, has gotta go fast to destroy a bunch of badniks and robots to save the world from Hillary Clinton. Now this story is ridiculous, much like RE4 and Godhand, but it takes itself just a tad too seriously. The characters are all cliche sounding and looking, Sam in particular just looking like a generic sci-fi protagonist. The game is clearly absurd but it mostly consists of mission briefings and samey mission objectives throughout its runtime meaning you'll stop caring about what is going on. Godhand at least had midgets in it. Still, Steve Blum is doing his best Steve Blum in order to Steve Blum his way to Steve Blum so Steve Blum! Now the real reason you're buying this game is for that silky smooth Mikami gameplay and, yeah, Vanquish totally delivers. Five minutes of gameplay in Vanquish have you doing more hype ♥♥♥♥ than you see in 90% of third person shooters that dominated two whole console generations. I don't know if that's impressive on the game's part or just pathetic on everyone else's part. You're a super soldier who doesn't run to cover, you freaking slide on your back with rockets attached to you and charge into cover and then rocket leap over it and shoot at massive mechs in slow motion like a cyborg Max Payne! Your guns are laser pointer accurate which is so damn satisfying. Why the hell do Japanese people make games where the bullets go where you point them yet when you give white ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in America a dev kit they start adding in all this ridiculous spread and recoil and mandatory iron sight ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in their shooting games. Maybe we should outlaw guns in this country if it'll make our shooting games halfway fun. In addition to very solid shooting, you also have distinct weapons that all feel chunky and effective to use in combat. The assault rifle is you workhorse weapon of the game, solid damage, accuracy, and ammo. The shotgun is a great "♥♥♥♥ off" weapon when enemies are getting too handsy and familiar with you, the LFE gun sucks up and sends almost anything it touches flying several feet back, and the rotary saw gun is great at turning the game into Dead Space for a handful of shots. The thing that may not be clear to you right away is that each gun has a different melee attack. The shotgun has this amazing pimp slap that can nuke boss health bars if you time it right, and the light machine gun sends you flying into the air and anything it makes contact with. You can also use this attack to make precise shots from up in the air which is really good for quick popping out from cover! This then leads us to the slow motion system in Vanquish. Whenever you aim in the middle of performing a certain action, such as boost sliding on the ground, somersaulting, vaulting over cover, or while you're in the air from the LMG melee attack, the game will trigger this slo-mo allowing you to make precise shots. Not only does this have the strategic benefit of deepening and slowing down Steve Blum's already deep ass voice when he's barking at you, but it obviously makes hitting weak spots easier. On hard difficulty, the game gives you just enough meter for this ability before you run out of energy to do it. It's a fantastic system that isn't abusable but also extremely fun to pull off. So what are the things holding this game back? Well the meter for slow motion is tied to your boost slide and the second wind mechanic allowing you to survive a fatal shot. Ok, that's cool and balanced. Problem is that when you execute a single melee attack on ANY enemy, the meter instantly drains. Without meter, you can't do any of the fun stuff this game excels at, and you have to take cover and slowly wait for it to recharge. Now I can get this meter draining when pulling off the shotgun's melee move on some of the bosses and taking away half their health in one hit, sure, that makes sense. But doing a slide kick on one of the thousands of standards robots who can die in one headshot? Seriously? That takes away all my fun Iron Man abilities for half a minute? Most of your melee options are way too context sensitive for this to make you want to use them. Considering how the game bills itself on being fast and fluid, having a penalty that makes getting into close quarters combat with enemies that instantly removes your capacity to use the abilities that allow you to get out of dodge of enemies you're too close to is a bit too harsh. Simply put, why use melee attacks when they punish you that hard when you can just stay behind cover and shoot enemies from a distance? Well ok, the enemies surely push you out of cover right? Not really. The Romanov enemies have a one hit kill laser ball that goes through cover, though it's extremely loud and slow making it easy to avoid, and there are tanks that show up occasionally that can destroy cover. But these are all few and far between. The game starts throwing more of these enemies and new aggressive robots that fly at you in the last two acts of the five act campaign, and guess what? They're the best levels in the game! This coupled with the really good bosses that show up oh so rarely and its clear they designed things to challenge the player in a fun way. So the game has the tools to make this system more interesting, but it usually chooses not to. When I think back on my three playthroughs of this game over the years, with this being my first on PC, most of my time with it looks like shooting generic red robots that you shoot at from cover. Thus making the game play like any other cover shooter a lot of the time. The game could have used better and more diverse enemies more frequently. The game also has far too few interesting set pieces and a VERY generic art style. This is a follow up game Platinum made to Bayonetta which is one of the coolest looking games ever, what the hell happened here? The only mission that's memorable is one very brief section inside a greenhouse. Everything else is lifeless white marble sci-fi cityscapes. Lastly, the game just doesn't have much replay value. There's no interesting modes or unlocks or New Game Plus like in Resident Evil 4. No Mercenaries mode, no horde mode like in Gears, no co-op. Nothing. The core gameplay is very fun, but that is all you're getting out of this game unfortunately. There's some unlockable challenges but these are definitely a one and done kind of ordeal which never make for interesting content. So yeah, Vanquish is a really cool game with fun combat and a fairly forgettable story and setting unfortunately. It's not Mikami's best but that should make it clear how amazing his work catalog is. This is still mountains better than most third person shooters you could pick up and play so give it a shot ESPECIALLY if it's on sale!