This is made more complicated by the fact that you can only carry one human at any given time, and that humans wandering the map are vulnerable to enemies that beam them up, UFO style. Of course, merely breaking your human friends out of prison isn’t enough: you’ll have to get them to safety, too. Each cage can only be opened by destroying specific groups of enemies called Keepers, which will only appear for a short amount of time.įailing to destroy the group of Keepers associated with a cage will mean the death of the human inside of it, which adds an additional layer of tension to the proceedings, especially when the screen is covered in enemies. In addition, you’ll also have to save the aforementioned humans, who are locked in cages that are scattered throughout each stage. This means that enemies can and will come at you from both sides, so you’ll have to be quick on the stick to survive for any length of time. Of course, just because you aren’t in a specific part of the cylinder doesn’t mean that things aren’t happening within that area, and enemies are constantly spawning and moving to attack you even when you can’t see them. Navigating your ship left or right takes you to another part of the loop, allowing you to interact with the contents of the area you currently occupy. This may seem complicated, but it’s actually fairly simple. All of Resogun’s stages are cylindrical loops. In an additional twist, the gameplay isn’t entirely 2D. Like most shoot ‘em ups, Resogun takes place on a 2D plane, but unlike most of its more famous contemporaries, the plane is horizontal. Navigating your ship left or right takes you to another part of the loop, allowing you to interact with the contents of the area you currently occupy."Īnd I do mean everything. "All of Resogun’s stages are cylindrical loops. The story is a simple one: aliens have invaded and captured the last of the humans, and you need to stop them by destroying everything. And if this was all that Resogun offered – that is, if it was just another shoot ‘em up – it would probably be enough. Like most games of its ilk, Resogun places you in control of a small ship and tasks you with destroying the enemies that populate the game’s various levels. Resogun is an incredibly well-made shoot ‘em up that stays true to the genre’s roots while adding a few unique touches of its own. However, dismissing it because of its status as a downloadable title would mistake. Haven’t you heard? And yet, Resogun is here as the first first party downloadable game on the revamped Playstation Network.
With that in mind, Sony’s decision to launch Resogun alongside the Playstation 4 seems rather… odd. Sure, every now and then we get an interesting new take on the genre like Geometry Wars, or the re-release of genre classics, like Radiant Silvergun or Ikaruga, but by and large, the shoot ‘em up has become more and more niche, supported by a fairly small but devoted following.
The gameplay and visuals might be old school but they work perfectly and this is the only game out of all the launch exclusives that we actually want to return to in our own time.There just aren’t enough shoot ‘em ups in the world today. The backdrops in particular are very disappointing as all the new stages look almost identical, just with a slightly different kind of fortress-like structure in the middle.īut despite the lack of content Resogun is the only launch game so far that feels complete. And even if you do whack up the difficultly the online co-op options allows you to visit any stage instantly, which lessens the excitement of unlocking each one in single-player mode.Īs for the visuals, we’re told the voxel technology is all very next gen and clever but apart from all the particle effects, which mimic the, still impressive, explosions of the original Defender there’s very little to get excited about. Whatever you do don’t play it on the lowest difficultly setting as you’ll see everything it has to offer in just a couple of hours. The problem with Resogun is it’s just so short. Once you understand how it works it’s a clever and well-balanced set-up, with five highly changing bosses and… well, nothing else actually. Your default weapons can only be given minor upgrades, but you can switch between firing them left and right at any time. As well as a quickly refilling speed boost, that can be used to ram enemies, there are also smart bombs to deploy when things get really busy and an ‘overdrive’ weapon that shoots out a giant beam of hot laser death for a few seconds.
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