Black Ice , FPS Looter/Shooter Inside Cyberspace

Disclosure: This game copy was bought by the reviewer.

The main focus of your time will be spent hacking into the neon-colored hubs around the relatively small world and killing the defense programs spawned to defeat you. There are an assortment of weapons featuring a base design, then a primary attack function that determines how the weapon damage is applied. There are also stat increases and perks to unlock as you level up (all of which are permanent and cannot be reset) to strengthen your program. Hit detection and jumping responsiveness perform as intended, but there seems to be an issue where the character can get stuck on an invisible part of the terrain. This prevents you from strafing to that side and disappears as soon as you move to the opposite direction. This problem has resulted in my death on some occasions and pops up randomly. The game ends once you defeat the main hub and took me about 5 hours of leveling and weapon scouring to defeat it. There isn't much after this except for going through the game at a higher difficulty or with up to 10 people in multiplayer using the same character you have in single player. The shooting mechanics and jumping/strafing make this a blast to play, but the amusement starts to wear thin when you fight the same 8 (I could have miscounted) enemy types across the span of your time.