Shadow Complex's developers found a way of making the single-player game extremely competitive, as if it weren't fun enough already. The camera shifts, and you can mow down wave after wave of your enemies in an unexpected way-likely cackling to yourself the entire time. While they're often boring affairs in most games, getting behind a stationary cannon on the Restoration's base is an absolute treat.
Outside of the boss battles, the turret sequences are also a pleasant surprise. As you progress deeper into the base, these conflicts intensify, culminating in an epic final battle.
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Each of these boss battles is enormously fun and often surprisingly interactive with the environment, such as a mech encounter in which you goad your enemy into blowing open a series of water mains and drowning itself. The Restoration knows that you're loose in their base, and they send everything they've got after you, from mobile powered suits to spider mechs. However, the real thrill of combat in Shadow Complex doesn't come from the small-scale hallway fights but the huge set piece battles. And for added variety (or if you want to keep things quiet), you can sneak up and take out soldiers with an impressive melee attack or use an unlockable powerful ground pound attack to simply vaporize them. Precision targeting can also be used to pull off headshots for maximum damage or to interact with the environment in a variety of ways: You can shoot down overhead power cables to electrify nearby enemies, explode fuel canisters, shoot down the explosive tiny robots that patrol the walls and ceilings, and more. However, sometimes it simply isn't possible to do so without adjusting your position because your laser sight refuses to reach into the background, which can be irksome, especially when you're taking cover behind crates or a blast shield.
Generally speaking, dealing with such foes is as easy as using the right analog stick to paint your laser sight across them and squeezing off a few rounds because the game usually knows when you're trying to aim at foes in other planes. Though the game is a 2D side-scroller, the graphics and environments are all rendered in 3D, which leads to some unique tricks with perspective where soldiers routinely patrol and attack from inaccessible areas in both the foreground and background.
This is going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me.Īs you infiltrate the Restoration's base, you'll encounter legions of heavily armed soldiers and do battle with their powerful battle mechs. That said, the constant thrills of finding the dozens of power-ups, exploring every nook and cranny on the map, and pushing your completion percentages all the way to 100 are more than enough to keep you going. This is especially true in the latter parts of the game when a major route is off-limits for story purposes. Retracing your steps and backtracking is a necessary part of your adventure, and though it's generally just a minor inconvenience to get from one location to another, Shadow Complex could have benefited from something like the teleport rooms seen in every Castlevania game since Symphony of the Night. And with the map screen and its helpful-yet optional-prompts, you'll rarely be at a loss as to where you need to go next. In addition to illuminating your way through the darkness, your flashlight will reveal the weaknesses of destructible doors, crates, and vent covers, making it easy to tell which areas you'll need to revisit. This, in turn, lets you find even more weapons and power-ups thus, you are constantly rewarded for your efforts. Though you're initially restricted to a small section of the Restoration base, each new ability you obtain expands this area.
Starting out with only a flashlight and his quick wits, Jason must search through the expansive underground facility for weapon and equipment caches to arm himself. Though the story of Jason's mission to save his girlfriend is poorly integrated (a shame, considering it builds upon the work of an award-winning author), it is really secondary to the action and exploration, both of which are brilliantly blended to create a fun and addictive experience. With Claire captured, it's up to Jason to find a way to storm the Restoration's stronghold and rescue her. When Jason Fleming and his girlfriend, Claire, go on a spelunking trip in the mountains and accidentally discover a secret underground base, they run straight into a radical organization that calls itself the Progressive Restoration. Set in the world of Orson Scott Card's Empire novel-though you would be hard-pressed to ever discover this unless you happened to read the game's description while downloading it-Shadow Complex is the story of a couple in the wrong place at the wrong time. By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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