Vic: John loves to play as the Hocker in Versus.Īdam: But at the same time, we’ve kind of seen them before: a big charging enemy that’s really bloated and explodes, one that’s more like a bullet sponge. You’ve got that one that I think it’s called the Hocker or something and it spits at you? I mean, the special types that you encounter were quite fun. There are so many squad-based shooters where it’s like, ‘grab your friends and survive against these odds’, that just makes me not as excited for it as I thought I would be. I don’t know if it’s just because of the climate. But yeah, it’s hard to put a finger on it.
I understand how it works, little perks and buffs and I’m sure it will make certain encounters more difficult if bosses get buffed as well. The card system itself, I mean, it didn’t grab me. In one level we went through a foggy tunnel, which was really dimly lit, through a farm on another, and were on a boat in another – which is always cool. That was quite nice, actually, the levels that we did play, there was quite a lot of variety. I think there’s going to be quite diverse levels, which we saw ourselves. John and I played Versus after everyone left, as there were issues initially with getting PvP working during our preview, and I really enjoyed it but I’m concerned it could become stale very quickly.Īdam: It’s interesting because the developers are promising that Back 4 Blood is going to be really replayable because of its card system and because of its game director, which can change how the game plays as you go through. But I agree with everyone that the replayability concerns me a little bit. And there are a few instances of that, which are fun to be able to recount as anecdotes – I like that bit. You’re just being chased by hordes of Ridden.ĭuring one of our missions, we were trying to get through hordes and hordes of them, and it took us an embarrassing amount of time to realize that we couldn’t actually kill them all and we had to just run through them, shooting as many as we could as we went. So, initially, I really enjoyed the challenge of feeling like you’re in a horror film, trying to fend off waves of zombies. See, I never played Left 4 Dead so I don’t have that comparison to draw from and I went into this with fresh eyes. I don’t know if it was because we were doing a preview that there weren’t detailed tutorials on those, but it was a bit overwhelming.īut the actual game itself I really enjoyed. Vic: The first thing that hit me when we started playing was landing in that home base and there are all these notifications saying, ‘get a card’, ‘get a supply line’, ‘do this’, and I just felt like there was so much there and I didn’t know what the game wanted me to do with it. It was fun, but I feel like we need to see how many Acts and missions there are before we can say how much replayability it’s going to have. But, generally, I felt like it definitely had some challenge to it. I really wasn’t paying too much attention to the time because then I jumped into PvP, and then that was like, four hours of playing that just because I played that all night. I think I finished up in maybe two hours. It was like eight missions in Act One and we skipped something in between, which I think was a major story element. John: I finished what they had on offer in the preview. Vic: How long was Act One in the campaign preview? They have some character customization options, you can build card decks and things like that, but I don’t know how long you’re going to be able to do that before you’re going to get bored with the campaign. It’s an updated version of that.īut I’m not sure there’s much replayability after you finish the campaign. So, for me, it was definitely fun to jump in. I didn’t get to play too much Left 4 Dead because I didn’t have an Xbox. John: There was definitely a challenge there in the later missions. Vic: Did you find it got more enjoyable as the difficulty ramped up?
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