![]() ![]() The challenge lies in dancing your fingers around the gamepad’s face buttons as you juggle the various traversal maneuvers. Pull it off right and you can watch as the nameless protagonist seamlessly transitions out of a bounding leap off of an umbrella and into a high-speed, high-wire grind. This is where the learning curve comes in. The controls are more Tony Hawk than Assassin’s Creed, an elaborate symphony of button taps and holds that produce different effects depending on where and when you press them. You catch air by bouncing off of virtually everything in sight, and you scramble along on vertical walls like the swiftest parkour-loving assassin. Slip sliding away. Your playable protagonist is an agile sort, able to grind like a skateboarder along everything from power lines to the edges of building rooftops. The city’s few, quirky survivors - friend and foe alike - help to drive the events of the as-yet-undiscussed plot, but “party in the post-apocalypse” is at the core of what drives this game. The Fargarths are a group of fantasy-loving LARPers who think the mutant uprising is evidence of their game coming to life. Troop Bushido is a bunch of adult Adventure Scouts that holed up in a Japanese culture museum during “Horror Night” and came to embrace the code of the samurai. There’s a larger story here that involves coming into contact with and working for an assortment of factions. The city is quarantined, the company tries to cover up the mishap, and you - realizing that the bulk of the city’s population is made up of flesh-hungry monsters - come to treat the once-bustling metropolis as your own, personal, blood-soaked Garden of Eden. As a janitor working at Fizzco’s Overcharge pre-launch party in Sunset City, you see this awful transformation firsthand. There’s just one problem: anyone who drinks it turns into a disgusting, misshapen mutant. The best crappy job ever. Fizzco is ready to take the world by storm with its new energy drink, Overcharge Delirium XT.
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