Deployment is a game that seems to be in hurry. There is no opening cinematic. No wall of text telling you why A.I. programs are waging a battle to the digital death. The title screen simply takes you to the options to play either online or offline or to play the tutorial. The tutorial even moves very quickly, telling you only the most basic mechanics and sending you off to the slaughter. Now normally, a competitive versus game doesn?t really require any extra dressings around its core gameplay loop, but I feel that Deployment takes this lack of fanfare a little too far.
The battles play out on maps that are divided into several rooms. You only get vision in the room that you, or a teammate in the case of team battles, are currently in. Any others are simply grey space, a stark contrast against the white of rooms with vision. You can move to a new room by moving up alongside one of the dividing walls and pressing the interact button. This teleports you across the wall into the new space. The goal is to find your opponent and kill them before they kill you. Class Warfare
There are five playable classes with which to deal out destruction. Each one has a unique super move and two different weapon types to choose from. Also on offer are six passive upgrades, two of which can be equipped at once. The option to change classes is offered between every death, allowing you to switch strategies on your opponents if your current tactics are failing you. The Gunner offers the usual a...