Each run is split into randomised Stages that ramp up in difficulty as you move. While you can matchmake into a run with strangers or hook up with your friends, or partake in PvP Battle Runs, you can also have plenty of fun alone. Rather surprisingly, it doesn’t force multiplayer either. Spending almost a year in early access has done it a world of good, allowing Illfonic to listen to feedback and pile in the content ahead of launch. Comprised of multiple biomes, game types, and, of course, boss battles, Arcadegeddon has everything you could look for in a game of its type. Think of it like Ready Player One with just slightly less bullshit. But in this world physically entering the digital plane is perfectly possible. With or without context, it doesn’t make a ton of sense. When the FFC invade it with a virus and try to shut it down, it’s up to you and the local gangs to jack in, Matrix-style, and save the day. In an effort to preserve something “gnarly”, Gilly has combined a ton of existing games into one huge super-game. Their totalitarian reign has put all the arcades in your city out of business, save one: Gilly’s Arcade, run by the protagonist’s uncle. The “man” you’re sticking it to is the FFC, of FunFunCo, a corporate behemoth that has cornered the fun market in the most egregious of ways: with rules and regulations. Everyone talks at you in weird adjectives, urging you to stick it to the man in the most irritating way possible.īut we’re ahead of ourselves here. Fun, of course, is subjective, and your mileage may vary depending on how resistant you are to an overuse of slang written with a grasp of youthful vernacular possibly gleaned by listening to commercial radio and writing down the words that sound made up. It’s a run-and-gun looter-shooter in a colourful world that offers top-notch gunplay and addictive progression, and it’s possibly the most fun I’ve had this year. It’s not a game about story – although it has one.
I begin this way because Arcadegeddon from Illfonic has dropped squarely into the latter category, and I can’t leave it alone.
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Something that’s just unequivocally fun remains, a series of much smaller bangs that don’t let up. Story might pack a big bang, but the after effects soon fade. It’s the Destiny 2’s and Monster Hunter Rise’s that hold my attention long-term. Story has its place, and a lot of the time it’s important, but it’s not the story games I keep coming back to. I’ll be the first up the hill waving the flag for complex story in games, don’t get me wrong, but I’ll probably have no idea what to say when I get there. There’s a lot to be said for good old fashioned fun and frolics.
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