When I fired up for the first time, I felt like Milhouse playing in the Simpsons, the protagonist of every ‘90s videogame ad physically blasted back into their chair by what they were playing. This is one of the best 3D action games I've ever seen, better even than is a generous font of flow state kills piloting a ten-metre-tall mech in between the crumbling tenements of an impoverished world. It's also a surprisingly thoughtful bit of science fiction, casting you as this put-upon cog of an unthinking corporate war machine, the victim of indeterminate, life-altering augmentation surgery who slowly wakes up to their own potential to write the history of planet Rubicon. has a similarly abstracted, surreal approach to the mercenary fantasy as , and uses this simultaneously exhilarating and dehumanising setup as a launchpad for a twisting, mind-bending story that only fully reveals itself after multiple New Game Plus runs.
