The game’s fundamentals are pretty basic: Guide your adventurer through booby-trap and enemy-filled floors, grabbing loot and leveling up along the way.
The game takes place in a futuristic world where opposing factions competefor resources, blasting away at each other from cover in a third-person viewpoint.
Deadlight, a stylish side-scroller, doesn’t have many original ideas, but since the ideas it borrows are executed in such a satisfying way, it all works out.
The Amazing Spider-Man doesn’t have the same zany cast of characters or liveliness of Shattered Dimensions, but it has Spidey’s addictive web-slinging antics.
Dynamic, engaging combat that feels more like an action game than the basic, rough-around-the-edges battles gamers are used to in RPGs that are this ambitious.
For some games, I need a cup of coffee before I start playing, since they require twitch reflexes and split-second reactions. That’s not the case with Awesomenauts.