As enemies spawn around the stage, occasionally green glowing enemies, dubbed Keepers, spawn, which you have to kill to break open a prison doing so frees the human inside, while failing to do so kills the human outright. Your objective in each stage is to, as noted above, “SAVE THE LAST HUMANS,” who are imprisoned around the stage in energy prisons that you have to break open. The entire game world is based on a rotating cylinder, and as you fly around said cylinder, enemies pop in for you to blast into oblivion. The audio effects are also well designed and assembled, featuring lots of futuristic effects and plenty of great sounding explosions to compliment the carnage you leave in your wake, and nothing sounds out of place or awkward.Īt its core, RESOGUN is your standard shooter in thought and deed the left stick moves your ship around, while you can use the right stick to fire in the direction you want, though you can only fire left and right. The music is also outstanding, which isn’t much of a surprise for a shooter given that this is almost a requirement in the genre, but it fits the tone of the game well and really compliments the action. ![]() ![]() The game also makes good use of its audio effects, starting with the fact that it uses the speaker in the controller to shout out instructions and power-ups, which gives the game a surprisingly arcade-style feel that helps it out a lot. The visual contrast between the well designed backgrounds and the voxel-esque ship designs is interesting, especially when things are exploding everywhere, and the game makes very good use of bright colors and visual effects between the enemy explosions and the special weapons you can unleash to level the playing field when needed. The environments themselves are largely similar to one another if you pay attention to them a bit, but the different color palettes make it less noticeable than you’d expect and the game is frantic enough that you likely won’t unless you’re doing it on purpose. Visually, the game is intense, and has an outstanding visual flair to it that takes good advantage of the PS4’s capabilities. The plot is very minimalistic, amounting to “SAVE THE LAST HUMANS,” to the extent that the game tells you this every stage, but you don’t really need for there to be an extensive storyline when there’s so much shooting so that’s forgivable. ![]() Granted, the game certainly has its issues here and there, and it’s probably not going to be the first game you latch onto for your shiny new PS4 whether it’s free or not, but that’s part of the charm of the game, as it manages to be one of the best games for the PS4 at launch, if not the best, by sheer personality and force of will, if nothing else.įrom a presentation perspective, RESOGUN is essentially a modernized take on the classic shooters we’ve come to love. The other part, however, comes from the fact that RESOGUN is an engaging, beautiful, and surprisingly accessible shooter that manages to do quite a lot that’s unique to it while still being a familiar and enjoyable experience. ![]() Part of the reason for this is because, along with Contrast, it was (and still is as of this writing) completely free to PS Plus users at launch, giving PS4 owners two free games at launch if they signed up for the service. Microsoft got the bigger roster of exclusive digital titles overall, with Killer Instinct, Crimson Dragon and Lococycle among others, but Sony might well have gotten the best game of the lot in RESOGUN. With all of the big retail releases, both multi-console and exclusive, sometimes it’s easy to forget that there were some interesting digital releases at launch on the PS4 and Xbox One.
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