The soundtrack of heart-pumping house music helps tie it all together, making for an exhilarating experience through and through. Something about it really puts you “in the zone” where it’s difficult to take your eyes off the frenzy of shooting and explosions. It’s also fast-paced, fun, and incredibly addicting. There’s not all that much more to it, but the action-packed shooting can get extremely hectic and challenging-teetering on the fine line of being overwhelming, but never to the game’s detriment. And even with so much going on, the frame-rate never stutters and remains smooth throughout. Enemies and explosions fill the screen with bullets, sparks, and particles that can obscure view, adding difficulty. The distinct electric green colors are vibrant over a dark, space backdrop. Resogun can’t stack up against heavy-hitters like Killzone: Shadow Fall in terms of visuals or harnessing the power of the PS4, but it sure is pretty. The real goal is to destroy everything on stage throughout three increasingly difficult phases that end with an encounter with a massive spacecraft-like boss. There’s a secondary goal of “saving the humans”, but this only earns you extra points, bombs, or extra lives by bringing humans in danger to safety. New for Resogun are glowing green “humans” that appear to be in a display case up on a pedestal. I made the mistake of running into them more than a few times. Racking up a massive multiplier is the key to the highest scores. Power ups semi-randomly drop from the sky, but beware, they’re encased in a shell that must be broken before you pick it up. Not dying and continuing to hit multiple enemies build and keeps up a point multiplier. Just like in Super Stardust HD, you can boost away from sticky situations, wipe out the entire screen full of enemies with a bomb, or use an overdrive to unleash a super powerful attack. This brings an additional layer of strategy and focus to the gameplay as you attempt to dodge enemies and their projectiles while maneuvering about, trying to nab power-ups and save humans, but only having the ability to shoot in either direction. Since the plane is no longer 360 degrees, the shooting isn’t either-it’s right or left, and so is the movement. Gone is the planet-orbiting, rotational plane, and in its place is a never-ending cylindrical plane that allows for the gameplay to feel a lot more like Super Stardust than it actually looks. Does Resogun live up to my lofty expectations? Or is there a reason it’s being given away for free?Īt a glance only, Resogun seems nothing like Super Stardust HD aside from it being a twin-stick shooter. Which is why Resogun was a must-have for me, with or without it being free as part of the first wave of PlayStation Plus freebies on the PS4. Their other PSN titles, Dead Nation and Outland, are also among my top choices of digital titles released over the lifetime of the PS3. With beautiful visuals, fun, addicting gameplay, and an appeal that may have you longing to come back to it time and time again, Resogun looks to be a dark horse for the PS4’s best launch game.Housemarque can’t do much wrong in my eyes, after providing early PS3 owners with the stellar Super Stardust HD. If you, for some reason, don’t like free games (some of them even being big-name, triple-A titles like Uncharted 3) and aren’t a subscriber, the $14.99 price tag is likely an absolute bargain. The addictive draw of chasing new high scores will recall younger days when high scores were the only achievements you could brag about, and it was great.Īs a PS Plus subscriber, you owe it to yourself to try this game the day you unbox your PS4. Before you know it, you’ve been playing for three hours. It’s one of those games you start playing late at night when you’re tired, don’t necessarily want to get wrapped up in a story, and just need some fun, relaxing entertainment. I had the chance to spend some quality time with it at PAX Prime, and can confidently say it will suck away a lot more of your time than you might expect. From Housemarque, the people that brought you the Super Stardust games on the PS3 and Vita, Resogun looks beautiful, fast, exciting, and addictive.
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