The tongue-firmly-in-cheek humor blends perfectly with the gritty weird-western story to present something that’s never too over the top or too serious. In the latter case - your crew’s pilot happens to have triplets named Huey, Dewey, and Louie. That sharp, crass wit also guides the new tutorial system, walking you through step by step with characters breaking the fourth wall in menus and explaining game-y elements like AI partners through hilarious means. Everything from fighting a foul mouthed wannabe Cthulhu to darting around shifting ruins out of Tomb Raider is on offer, made all the more memorable with jokes and snark for every hero. All these elements ensure each mission feels like its own replayable game type thanks to the diverse offerings. Killing them is worth extra points, but if they foil you, they get all the glory. Instead, the incentive is to build new versions as you level up, able to further max out your loadout so you can go forth and kick ass.įurther bucking trends, player-versus-player is meshed into story missions, allowing for one Antagonist player to join in. Instead of grinding for loot, you earn crafting materials and experience just by running dailies, and you can invest each into precisely the guns and skills you want.
Not aiding matters was a lackluster introduction to a litany of systems you needed to understand to play it properly, along with a starting mission that’s one of the game’s weakest scenarios.Īfter several attempts to turn things around, Mercury Steam finally opted for a relaunch that boldly just throws up its hands at what every games-as-a-service title offers. To play everything, it cost close to full retail price, but matchmaking was split across those who owned specific campaign packs.
It was an interesting attempt at episodic content and monetization, but it ended up nearly killing the game. As Raiders of the Broken Planet, the game was a semi-free-to-play experience where, after the initial free missions, you could pay for sets of campaign missions.
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