Tower of Guns was released in 2015, free for PlayStation Plus members at launch. While it didn?t make huge waves, the game was a fun homage to older first-person shooters that just needed some fine tuning. Terrible Posture Games and Grip Digital have been furiously at work on MOTHERGUNSHIP, which is at the very least a spiritual successor to Tower of Guns. We went hands-on with the upcoming game while at Sony?s PlayStation Experience 2017 expo, and have our impressions ready for you now.
Time to Have Some Fun
MOTHERGUNSHIP is a game that doesn?t appear to take itself too seriously. You are commanded by a sarcastic, anthropomorphic frog, who always seems eager to throw out a bad joke or two when the mood doesn?t strike. It?s obvious the comedy may fall flat with some gamers, but when the surrounding game is so easy to dip into, a few lame jokes are easy to forgive. Once again, the Unreal Engine powers the frantic action. Since the game randomly generates which room the player faces next, even the developer didn?t know what to expect. What they could tell us is that the game?s room picking logic avoids putting the player in the same type of room over and over. So don?t expect to always be in bullet hell ? in some cases, there may even be a break in the frantic action for a spot of platforming over lava or something. The massive, slow-moving bullets from Tower of Guns were here in massive numbers, and the frame rate remained steady during our demo.
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