Metrocide (2014)

This is unplayable in 4K because it doesn't scale at all. Enabling Fullscreen crashed it several times. Even using Borderless Gaming doesn't work, it just runs the game at the selected resolution in a corner.

The Options menu is a bad joke too. The only options are; Resolution, Fullscreen, Disable Tutorials, Alternate Movement. Not even a unified Volume slider or anything. The game also has an unskippable, very bright white intro screen. Just awful.

1/10

A GTA 2 style shooter game with stealth mechanics. The story isn't much to tell from here on out but for whatever reason, you're set on fulfilling hit contracts on selected pedestrians in order to escape from city locations.

Despite tutorial help, it still takes me trials-and-errors to get a proper flow with the mission execution. For one, you'll need to hold down the fire button for your starter gun to fire off, until you buy a better weapon that can shoot instantly. It also takes some luck to find your target in a less crowded location for you to get a clean assassination but I reckon that risk-taking are part of what makes this game overall. The most fun part is provoking other armed civilians and cop drones to do the work for you.

The arcade design of the playthrough is what I consider a serious flaw, because you'll be starting from square one again if you drop dead (it takes one hit on you as well) and you'll lose all you've invested time and in-game currency on.

I can't recommend this game, especially for the uneven pacing between street navigation and sensitive assassination process.

Mixed feelings on this. It's quite a cool setting and idea. It's a mix of GTA 1 (on foot) and blade runner. Strange to mix those things together but that is exactly what you get. the game is rough in many ways (just like GTA really) and the litter amongst the street makes it hard to identify threats.

The game itself is deep end stealth where you literally stalk your target throughout a city until finally at the right moment you decide its time to pull out your Plager Katsume Model D and retire them. but its dangerous:

Witnessing bystanders my shoot you. Police resopnding to the call will shoot you. You can be seen and identifed as you wander throughout the city on the CCTV camera system.

Were the game worked on a bit a nice idea to insert into this would be:

Detectives who learn of your identity might begin to stalk you and retire YOU, or there could just be assassins who go after you at some point.

I like the style, the deep end of stealth and consequences, but its very slow and requires a lot of patience to play as intended. Playing chaotically works too. This lessens the fun because you aren't doing it 'right'

Were this game fleshed out properly it could be nice. You'd have a game that really rewards patience and makes undetected contracts that go well extremely satisfying and the ones that don't extremely frustrating. As it strands the game as a whole is frustrating, because shooting is shit, the missions get really repetitive, and the game is too tedious.