Vanquish

Vanquish remains as PlatinumGame's forgotten gem. Seriously, it's that good. Among the cover shooter genre i'd even say its among the best. The game itself is not that long, it only took me about 20-25 hours to 100% the game. I think this works in its favor, allowing the game enough time to be memorable without overstaying its welcome. The story of Vanquish is nothing special. You play as DARPA Agent Sam Gideon, fighting a terroristic Russian threat who threatens to use a space station built to harness solar energy against New York City. It doesn't get more complex than that, and feels very generic for the time that the game was released. You are a good guy sent to fight bad guys who want to hurt people. The real bread and butter (and the reason why this game has its reputation) is in the gameplay. Vanquish is a high-octane fluid movement based cover shooter. That's a lot of buzzwords but they all accurately describe Vanquish's gameplay. For example, you're allowed Rocket boosters to zoom around the battlefield and to propel yourself in the air. You can dive kick into some poor robots face and enter a slow-mo backflip bullet time and kill the three robots behind him before even landing on the ground again. The game follows the rule-of-cool religiously and doesn't apologize for it. The game also hosts a decently varied selection of weapon types to choose from, and enemy types to face that are uniquely their own. My favorite was this terminator-silver surfer hybrid called a "Crystal Viper". You'll need to play it for yourself to see what i'm talking about. Seriously, its fun and goes on-sale for cheap. Just get the game and have some quick-fun.

Short and sweet! Great execution of a cover-based shooter where covers feel useful but not too OP because of enemies potentially flushing you out by destroying them, flanking you from multiple directions, etc. The combat is very chaotic, fast-paced, and intense (especially on the challenges and harder difficulty), one of the main reasons being AR mode and how it's tied to your health, making it risky to use it often, very simplistic but executed perfectly. One of the best shooters I played!

Absolute banger. Stop reading reviews and just buy this game.

Slop of its era is what you can call this game with its generic protagonist, the blonde female talking to you while the ♥♥♥♥ always do these "angles" (if you know what i mean) and the "Russia is the bad guy and the US is corrupted" and corny dialogue. Gameplay insanely unfun since everything is scripted and there is no player freedom (keep in mind some people call this a "movement shooter" it is anything but a MS 🥀). The shooting is borderline cancer since some guns spray like flower missing 65% of your shots and running it out of ammo. The upgrade system was also a second thought. Oh and don't get me started on the "melee" of your character or the AI of this game. QTE are abysmal, not as bad as Bayonetta but still terrible. This game proves once again that, Platinum games hasn't made a single decent game outside of MGR:R. How do boomers call garbage like this "classic" is beyond me. Every mouth breather has an opinion now and are calling every ps3/ps2 era game a classic. No wonder we are going backwards these days in terms of game development.

super underrated. great game play is kinda like metal gear rising with guns. the story while bad if you dont take it serouisly its like a so bad its good movie.

Very good, but the 2004 Vanquish is better

Игруха агонь пацаны, если вы фанат творчества платинумов обязательно к прохождению Шутер который не забивает голову и проходиться на одном дыхании, за один пресест Если вам кажется что игра очень сложная за счёт кривизны, непонятных хитбоксов или того, что по вам попадают из непонятных мест значит вы неправильно в неё играете. Большинство шутеров от третьего лица ставит перед игроком челлендж, и заставляют думать о том чтобы совершать как можно меньше ошибок и не высовываться из укрытия, Vanguish - это ровно наоборот. Хотя изначальный концепт игры понять достаточно непросто, но игра хочет чтобы вы играли в неё не как в Gears of War, а как в Devil May Cry, или скорее Bulletshtorm. Очень весёлая игра, видно что разработчики веселились во время её создания и ощущается она очень легко и не напряжённо(хотя я прошёл её на среднем уровне сложности, на более высоких я думаю мне порвут жопу). Пролетел вообще без каких либо проблем, хочу больше чего-то подобного. Обязательно теперь буду перепроходить на высоких сложностях. Про механики и геймплей распинаться как то не охото, попробуйте поиграть сами. Мега рекомендую

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