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Overall, though, day to day existence in the world is good, with plenty to discover throughout the map. Where your increasing freerunning skills constantly feel more empowering, I oddly found combat against the living frustrating the further I got in, despite growing power and skills. These layers quickly overwhelm in larger encounters and the beautiful precision of smaller street scuffles becomes more of a desperate mash to gain control. Later, though, human opponents increase in numbers and they start to feint attacks, add in unblockable strikes, and attack at range with bows. The entire first half's fighting is shaped by waiting for the perfect moment to hoof enemies into oblivion. At the start it's all about using blocks to stun opponents and vault over them to unleash a devastating two-footed kick that gives Deathloop some competition - enemies crunch into walls or fly from rooftops, to soar for a few beautiful parabolic seconds until the ground gets involved. But the system is muddied in the mid-to-late story by too many enemies layering too many attacks. When it all falls into place you can just sort of wake up blinking at the end of a mission not entirely sure how you got through it.Ĭombat can have moments like these too, especially when you nail dodges and blocks. Things like a paraglider let you soar across buildings, while a grapple hook can be flung out in a heartbeat to swing across gaps with barely a thought. When the tools and skills you unlock click you can enter a total flow state - pivoting on a footfall to avoid danger or leaping from rooftops without looking down, confident you can fix the issue before it's too late.

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It's an enjoyable open world zombie game that realises that core fantasy well as you try to survive its corpse infested city: exploring, seeing what you can find, picking up missions at random, and - when all hell breaks loose - making split second fight or flight decisions as you run through streets full of undead. There are some issues I'll get to later but nothing that puts me off recommending it.

It's a big game then and, for the most part, a good one.

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Platform: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series 1, PC

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