Monday, March 31, 2014

Black Ice demo

Black Ice is an FPS in which you attempt to hack as many buildings as possible to find loot. Hacking a building only requires that you step up to it and right click. This will spawn a wall around you that defines the area of combat, leaving the area cancels the hack. While hacking enemies will spawn. They come in three varieties: spider, ranged thing, jumping spider. You must defeat all enemies to complete hacking a building. There is also a battleship guarding the final building that will attack you if you approach. It is the only enemy that will attack you without being provoked. As you hack buildings you'll pick up loot in the form of weapons, hacking devices, and movement upgrades. Because this is a demo, there is a restriction in that you can only level up to level 4, meaning you can't equip much of the loot that you find. Multiplayer is also disabled.

My opinion: Black Ice is fun, but it also got really repetitive really fast. There's a lack of enemy variety and gameplay only consists of hack, fight, loot, repeat. The battleship was interesting until I realized that the AI was dumb and just stood around a corner and shot it down while it kept shooting the wall. That said the game also has serious promise. Shooting is a lot of fun, weapon variety is interesting, and the movement abilities are criminally unnecessary. The game is surely worthy of a few minutes of your time and I've actually purchased the full version and can say that a lot of it's issues are kinda fixed when you're able to get above level 4, although I would still like to see more content.

Black Ice is by Superdupergc. You can find the free demo here.

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