Red Faction: Guerrilla is a bit of an underrated gem. It doesn’t quite have the same depth as Bayonetta with regard to the characters but it can hold it’s head high in terms of a single player experience. Vanquish is certainly an experience I’d recommend and for a few sessions of a couple of hours each it is a blast to play. Got all that? Right now forget all about it and SHOOT THOSE ROBOTS! Russia are holding the USA to ransom, destroying San Francisco and targeting New York next unless the Americans comply with their wishes – total surrender. And so begins a thoroughly enjoyable ride into the desperate life of Kane…įrom the makers of Bayonetta, Vanquish tells the story of Sam Gideon, a member of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), who is tasked with rescuing a scientist that was working on the O’Neill Cylinder Space Station when it was hijacked by Russia. Kane claims he doesn’t know where it is but he does know who took the cash and will hunt them down. If he doesn’t get them the money back in three weeks his wife and daughter will be killed. They think Kane stole the money from their last job and stashed it somewhere. Kane is busted out of his prison van by a mysterious group called The7 who he worked with previously. You take control of Adam ‘Kane’ Marcus, a criminal on his way to death row for crimes committed in Venezeula. The story is formed (and endings chosen) as you go through the game and the coolest thing Black Ops II pulls off is that half the time you’re not even aware you’re making a choice or triggering something that will change the story. I always had a sense of which character I was controlling, something that hasn’t always been the case in former iterations of the titles.
It flits between the 80’s and 2025 but is far less confusing than previous games. I know a lot of people just buy the game for the multiplayer but really you should check this story mode out. However beyond those issues, the campaign *is* the best in a Call Of Duty game to date. I also had some pretty weird instances of character models getting stuck where they shouldn’t be and the game just felt really unpolished. During the opening hour I got trapped in a game breaking glitch and after getting through that my PS3 froze up. Unfortunately my initial time with the game did not go well. I’ve really enjoyed the last few campaigns in the Call Of Duty series so when I heard that Black Ops II had the best one yet I was pretty excited to give it a shot. Please bear in mind this list doesn’t take into account multiplayer aspects of games, it’s based solely on single player experience. If you’ve missed the previous installments, catch up here! Wow, I can’t believe we’re already at the Top 50!
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