Game Nex Machina - a test for vision and nerves
Games / / December 19, 2019
Many modern games have turned into a movie, so pass them was easy. Of them disappeared excitement and passion. But Nex Machina make you nervous.
Forecasts fiction come true. In the distant future, robots still have enslaved humanity. About any war, as in the "Terminator", speech does not go. The nameless hero enters the final fight with the machines, which just can not win. But take away a piece of iron as much as possible - it is.
The Finnish company Housemarque for more than ten years, produces simple but exciting shooter. To work on Nex Machina they attracted Eugene Jarvis, once to create the best arcade games for gaming machines. Together they decided to return to the spirit of gaming clubs in America '80s, when the game comes for special coins, but with the power of modern consoles and PCs.
Nex Machina - a simple game. At least on paper. The hero can walk, shoot, save the hidden at the level of people in exchange for new capacity or to improve the weapons, as well as directed to do high-speed leap aside. Last need to dodge the projectiles, or fly through the energy barriers.
There are simple things come to an end. In fact Nex Machina - horrendously difficult game. The hero of hundreds climb hostile military robots. Running is always required in one direction and shoot - to another, and be prepared to jump - in the third. For each death of the hero is taken one of the improvements and move on without them is becoming increasingly difficult.
Due to the small levels and giant military robots game turns into a battle for life and death. Every victory becomes more valuable, and another death makes stronger squeeze gamepad and yank on the Army piece of iron with a triple force. After the passing game will be available to a higher level of complexity at which enemies will die slowly, and move faster. And then open another, more complex, and more. This serious test of skills and perseverance: the last level reached in just 50 people worldwide.
Nex Machina looks incredible. She stylized games with gambling machines from the 80's and the TV screen looks like a mixture of a laser show with the movie "Transformers." Around the hero always something explodes, and through fire every second beat dozens of deadly rays.
Despite the riot of color and light, to understand where the hero, where the enemies are, where to go and in what direction to fire, it is always possible - get lost in the Nex Machina difficult. But to die a breeze.
Nex Machina will appeal to those who long for the games to Dendy, people with perfect response or incredible tenacity, as well as those who are almost all modern games seem slow. A Watt, who do not enjoy the endless shooting and do not like games that make a lot of a long time to think, unlikely to appreciate Nex Machina.
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