An incredible soundtrack, a bleak, cyberpunk world, brutal isometric combat – Ruiner remains one of the best games of its era, a weightier, crunchier variation on the melee brawls of Hotline Miami, diced with sci-fi maximalism. Developer Reikon has been relatively quiet since Ruiner’s launch, but now, finally, the team is back. Capturing the same futuristic brutalism as its spiritual predecessor, Metal Eden is a new FPS with shades of Doom Eternal and Cyberpunk 2077. Stylish and uncompromising, if Doom The Dark Ages has already piqued your interest, Reikon’s latest should definitely be on your radar.
It’s the distant future. The planet Moebius is essentially one giant factory. You are Aska, a super-advanced android whose consciousness can instantly jump from one body to another – if you are ‘killed’ in combat, you just wake up in a new, identical physical vessel. The cybernetic inhabitants of Moebius are at war over ‘Cores,’ small machines that contain digitized remnants of living, human souls. By discovering and upgrading a number of abilities, and taking advantage of an array of terrifyingly powerful sci-fi guns, your mission, seemingly, is to discover what happened to Moebius’ erstwhile population. That’s the premise. Mechanically, Metal Eden is reminiscent of some of the best FPS games of recent years.
Like Doom Eternal, or the superior 2016 Doom soft reboot, motion and mobility are paramount. Metal Eden’s battles take place in expansive, multi-floored challenge rooms – you’re locked in, and you need to dodge, jump, sprint, and use a number of buffs and power ups to dance around the enemy and successfully gun them down. You can use parkour to run across walls, or tear out your opponent’s Cores and throw them as explosives.
Some guns have limited ammo. Others last forever, but overheat with sustained fire. What results is a rhythmic ‘puzzle shooter’ where you have to rapidly flutter between styles and guns. If that sounds promising, the better news is that you don’t have to wait long. The Metal Eden release date is set for Tuesday May 6.
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