I'm pretty addicted to this game.
Welcome to Cruelty Squad, which is an experience I can only describe as playing Hitman after purposefully overdosing on acid with all the thoughts and feelings of knowing you'll be in the ER or dead before the day is done.
You might take one looks at the screenshots of this game and see how it presents itself and immediately scream about how it makes the original DOOM look like the Mona Lisa, but I promise the style is not only intentional but massively important to the way you'll play and enjoy the experience. It'll hurt your eyes and assault your senses, it's meant to do that and pulls it off in such a way there will be no frustration that comes with it. It's really beautiful in it's own way.
To give a brief story summary, you're a fucking loser that lost his job and an old friend has called you up with an opportunity to work for the Cruelty Squad. You're an assassin in a far future world where resurrection and life-preservation technology is so abundant and easily accessible that life itself has not even no value but negative value, death is impossible, existence is a curse and hangs around like a bad smell. Feeling your body rupture and explode in a thousand pieces only to be reformed later on is an experience the rich pay handsomely for, beats the numbing boredom of still being alive.
You'll start each mission you're assigned with a choice from a pool of weapons and dubious implants that will greatly expand as you find more in each level. Gunplay is gorgeous, everything screams of a certain jank and oddity that fits with the presentation, there is a surprisingly potent story hidden behind all of the textures and hud. Every mission is incredibly detailed, feels like each time I touch a level I'll find some new path or area I never noticed before.
OST is as disturbing yet brilliant as the rest of the game, fits with the action and the surroundings like a match made in heaven. I'd say more than this, I could probably go on for hours, but I think this is one of those experiences where going in blind or with very limited information is the best way to play. Give it a shot gamers x
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